Post by Mete Bakircioglu on Aug 28, 2017 13:18:23 GMT -5
Werner Pfennig and Etienne LeBlanc lived fairly similar lifestyles if not for Etienne fearing the outside world. From interests such as radios to character, it seems as if Doerr almost writes in Etienne as what Werner could have been had he survived the war. Possibly the most significant point regarding this theory is that Etienne feared the world because of the war that he fought in, and Werner could have very possibly gone down that path also. In some passages, Doerr makes this connection more apparent than in others such as when Etienne goes out in the night to complete Madame Ruelle's task. He thinks "find two known points... then calculate the location of the third and unknown point. Simple triangle." Why do you think Doerr did this? What other purposes did Etienne serve in the story that drew certain aspects from Werner's character?