Anthony Doerr's All The Light We Cannot See

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It only takes a few, simple words to grab somebody's attention from across a room, yet you can do the same process through literature. Author, Anthony Doerr, is very successful in doing so, especially throughout one of his latest works, All the Light We Cannot See. To provide an example, “the piano starts to play. Marie-Laure reaches beneath the bench and locates the knife. She crawls along the floor to the top of the seven-rung ladder and sits with her feet dangling and the diamond inside the house in her pocket and the knife in her fist. She says, ‘Come and get me’ (Doerr 453). Those last few words being the final sentence creates direct concentration to Marie’s doings. Along with that, it also creates nervousness and anxiousness for the
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