Which story?

[hannahdorros]

Bit of a general question but, which story within ATLWCS did you like the most. Why?

[hannahdorros]

Personally I enjoyed Marie-Laure's story a bit more at the beginning. I felt like Werners story got off to a slow start whereas Marie-Laure lost her eyesight towards the very beginning. Although as the story goes on I began to become more interested in the school Werner goes to and the tasks the Nazi's have them preform. As the book continues I grew to like both the points of view equally, because they each had their different meanings and problems for each character.

[alexhammond]

I found myself most attached to Werener through out the story. Throughout the duration of the story, you watch as two separate characters evolved as individuals. I felt as if Marie-Laure's "growing up experience" was slightly more generic.The typical scared young girl finds her way as the protection she once knew slowly fades (her sight, then her home, then her father). With Werner, I just felt as though his "bumps in the road" were more relateable. His relations with the other boys at the Children's Home and with Frau Elena, him trying to succeed at school while maintaining his friendships, his admiration of Volkheimer. He seemed more authentically a teenager.

[Emma Kaer]

I personally enjoyed Marie-Laure's story, she was challenged in ways, that I feel, were more intense. Maybe intense isn't the right word for it speaking all that Werner went through, but she was actually disabled. Blindness during that time was something most people wouldn't be able to survive. Not only was the world a lot different back then, less convenient for those who were different, but she was blind in the middle of a war. In a lot of ways she had a lot fewer chances in the grand scheme of things than Werner did, he went through his hardships, in a way, by choice. She had hers forced upon her.

[keelylipp]

I enjoyed Werner's story more throughout a majority of the novel. His adventures he went on and all the experiences he went through at the Hitler Youth Academy were more interesting to me than Marie-Laure in Saint-Malo. When he got listed into the military is when Marie-Laure's story became more interesting to me because I was almost positive that Werner was going to die next time I read about him.

[janepearson]

Personally, I liked The Book Thief better because it was a more general story and easier to comprehend. I enjoyed both books, but I think the Book Thief was more my style of reading.

[domtoye]

I felt more attached to the Werner story line because of the exciting opportunities he was seeming to be given within the first half of the book, whereas I felt the ML story just moved too slow and didn't have many occurrences that might take the reader by surprise. 

[emilia]

Personally, I liked Marie-Laure's story more. I found it interesting that the author showed us what it was like to be blind during the war because I feel like people wouldn't really consider what that would be like. It was interesting reading about how Marie-Laure dealt with having a disability during a trying time.