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After reading All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, the theme of family, love, and friendship is particularly evident. Techniques and rhetorical devices are used to display this theme in the writing such as imagery, personification, and emotional appeal.
On page forty-one of the book, Marie-Laure, being blind, finally finds her own way home in the city of Paris with little to no help from her father. This moment's emotion is clearly described with imagery like "Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life... laughing together while snow sifts through the branches above". This specific example portrays how happy Marie's father is for her, and how happy Marie is that her father is pleased. That is love. |
By being descriptive, Anthony Doerr manages to make readers be engaged with the story and all of it's details. For example, on page forty, "Cars splash along streets, and snowmelt drums through runnels; she can hear snowflakes tick and patter through the trees". By using descriptive words and imagery, the setting is set very clearly for the readers to understand. The readers can feel and hear what Marie-Laure can feel and hear, which brings them closer to her character and the story.
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