(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Whose story did you enjoy the most? Was there any character you wanted more insight into?
The narration moves back and forth both in time and between different characters. How did this affect your reading experience? How do you think the experience would have been different if the story had been told entirely in chronological order?
What is a mowaw?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once wrote that “the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” All the Light We Cannot See is filled with examples of human nature at its best and worst. Discuss the themes of good versus evi
Choose a passage that you felt the author conveyed a mood particularly well. Review that passage, selecting details that contributed to that overall tone.
“To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness” (390). What is the significance of this line, in the story and in a more figurative or universal sense?
Discuss the ending of the book. Were you satisfied with it? (This does not necessarily mean you were happy with it.) Why or why not? What do you wish the author had done differently?
Discuss the symbolism, connections, and relationship between Werner and Volkheimer in the chapter “The Beams” (p. 393).
Discuss any irony you see in this final section.
What role does the structure of the book play in the story? The meaning?
Werner thinks, “That is how things are . . . with everybody in this unit, in this army, in this world, they do as they’re told, they get scared, they move about with only themselves in mind. Name me someone who does not” (368). But,in fact, many
It has been suggested that Werner is the Sea of Flames. How are the two alike?
Choose a foil character in the story. What role do they play in helping us understand Werner or Marie Laure?
Choose a symbol in the story. What importance does that symbol play?
When Werner and Marie-Laure discuss the unknown fate of Captain Nemo at the end of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Marie-Laure suggests the open-endedness is intentional and meant to make us wonder (page 472). Are there any unanswered que
Choose a passage containing figurative language. How does this aid in understanding the book's theme?
Speculate about what happened to the Sea of Flames in the end of the story. Do you believe in the curse? Why or why not? Support your opinion with specific details from the novel.
A criticism of the novel is that the “Berlin” chapter in section Eleven: 1945 seems unnecessary, irrelevant, or disconnected from the rest of the story. Do you agree or disagree? Why do you think Doerr included this chapter?
Identify how the author uses light and darkness to contribute to meaning in the text.
Does Werner gain redemption in the book? Why or why not
Return to the two epigraphs at the beginning of the book and discuss their significance.
It could be said that this novel is about redemption. Do you agree? What is the message about redemption? Do you feel that Werner was redeemed in the end? Why or why not?
