Book Post

For this last blog post on All The Light We Cannot See, I want to talk both about the Sea of Flames and my opinion of the book. First of all, the Sea of Flames is a small stone that has incredible value as it has heavy historical significance. So my question is why did the museum owner give the stone and its copies to employees instead of people who would be better fit for the job? It made me mad seeing as the stone was nearly lost tons of time because, honestly, I don't believe Marie's father was the right person to give the stone to. Also, at the end of the book, the stone is thrown into the water by Marie. WHY?!?! The stone was so sought after and it has no real significance to her, so why throw it away and not sell it? It just makes me mad when an author tries to make a character so perfect that they turn down obviously free spoils of war. No one in the real world would have thrown away that much money so why would the author make her do it? Over all this book was a nice read and I would recommend it as an airplane book but something you should spend a lot of time analyzing? Not really.

Reading Question

1. This book is set during World War II, which some would argue was due to the failure of the ideals of Western civilization (consider what you are learning about in IHSS). Do you agree? Why or why not?

I disagree that WW2 was due to the ideals of Western civilization because of how it came along. World War Two, from my eyes, started with Germany invading Poland and declaring war on France and the UK. From there, all the other countries started to join in based on need or because they wanted to take the opportunity to take land from other countries. One such place was Japan trying to take Asia, or Russia that only got into the fight for political reasons. Thus I think that Germany was the feather that broke the camels back and that, though the west was in a bit of a bind politically, it was less ideals and more money, politics and power that started the war.