![]() Throughout the war, the book remains a constant, offering comfort to Marie-Laure and keeping her mind off the atrocities happening all around her. She continues reading it when her father is put in a German prison camp and she is left with her uncle, and later, when her uncle is taken away and she is left alone in the house to fend for herself. At the very hardest time, she reads the book into her uncle’s radio to offer comfort for all those experiencing the hardships of war like her. ![]() ![]() She starts reading it when she is living a normal life with her father, before the war has even started. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Īs Marie-Laure reads this book through good and bad times, it represents people’s efforts to maintain normality, even in a time of war. The radio also symbolizes hope for Werner, as it is what helped him evade going into the mines. ![]() Though France is occupied by the Germans, the illegal radios of the French people show that they will not give up and will do everything in their power to get back their homes. Though the Germans have outlawed radios, many people keep them to communicate with their allies in hopes of defeating the Nazis. Illegal radios also represent the resistance to oppression. ![]() The radio plays a big part in both the lives of Werner and Marie-Laure, as this is the way they meet each other, symbolizing the connection of people all over the world.
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