All the Light We Cannot See,  by Anthony Doerr                        2/12/15

Hostess - Betty Rose Gibbs

Rating 4.5 (Overall Enjoyment)

Interest of Topic: 4.5 - we knew alot about WWII, but learned a lot about island of Saint Malo, France and the impact of the radio as the only form of outside communication during the war

Character Development - 5.0 - great character development

Plot Development - 4 - overall good, but some stuggled with the jump back and forth between different storylines and different times

Author's creativity - 4.5 (author's inspiration came from seeing a man on a train who was annoyed with the slow speed of his internet access)

Discussion Generated - 5

We discussed examples of good vs evil in the book.  For example: - Instructors at Werner's school (evil) / Fredrick who refused to abuse the other boys at the school (good).  Jutta also represented good.

We thought that Werner was inherently good, but just in a hopeless situation.  Even if he had defended Fredrick against instructors and other students, he would have been sent back to orphanage to work in the mines (or worse)