Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in All the Light We Cannot See, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
World War II, the Nazis, and the French Resistance
Interconnectedness and Separation
Fate, Duty, and Free Will
Family
Science and “Ways of Seeing”
Summary
Analysis
Marie-Laure has now spent five days in the radio room. She takes a record, and plays it. She imagines dying here in the radio room, and decides to play the record as loud as possible, so that the man downstairs will hear her, find her room, and attack her. The record begins—it’s delicate piano music. Slowly, Marie-Laure grabs the knife she’s been carrying, and whispers, “Come and get me.”
Marie-Laure seems to have given up hope, but she expresses this in a manner very different from Werner’s. She thinks that she’s going to die, but she’s ready to go out in a “blaze of glory”—fighting for her life, armed with a knife and her own courage, and even with a poignant soundtrack.
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