Characters
This blind girl is one of the main protagonists of the novel.
Who is Marie-Laure Leblanc?
Marie-Laure lives in this French city, famous for its walled citadel.
What is Saint-Malo?
The year when World War II begins.
What is 1939?
Marie-Laure is blind because of what details in the novel?
What is she has a cane, a Braille book and a model of the city of Saint Malo in her room?
"The Hotel of Bees was a cheerful address, with blue shutters on the facade, oysters on ice, waiters with bow ties polishing glasses behind the bar" (Doerr 7).
What is description?
This German boy is conscripted into the Hitler Youth.
Who is Werner Pfenning?
Werner grows up in this mining town in Germany.
What is Zollverein?
The year in which Saint-Malo is bombed.
What is 1944?
The white ___________ fell from the sky.
What are the leaflets?
"The walls of the hotel toll like a struck bell" (Doerr 10).
What is a simile?
This character is Marie-Laure's great-uncle, who plays a significant role in her life.
Who is Etienne LeBlanc?
The Sea of Flames is initially kept in a museum in this city.
What is Paris?
The year World War II ends.
What is 1945?
The number 12 is significant because...
What is 12 is a mystical number, magical and represents completion, a divine order or wholeness?
"The clack-clack of small-arms fire" (Doerr 11).
What is an onomatopoeia?
It brought the children together to listen to music and propaganda.
What is the radio?
Where is Werner stationed in Saint Malo?
What is the Hotel of Bees?
The year Marie-Laure is six.
What is 1934?
They turn cartwheels over rooftops is this literary device.
What is personification?
"The locusts have no king, yet all of them go out in ranks"(Doerr 16).
What is an allusion?
It is cursed and blue with some red in the center.
What is the "The Sea of Flames"?
Where did Marie-Laure live before living in Saint Malo?
What is Paris?
The year Werner carries the radio downstairs for the children to listen to the play.
What is 1936?
Night is represented in the novel like being....
What is dreadfully silent?
"Marie-Laure LeBlanc is a tall and freckled six-year-old in Paris with rapidly deteriorating eyesight..." (Doerr 19).
What is a flashback?