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This week, on Thursday, we learned about imagery. Find an example of imagery in the book, quote it, and explain how it appeals to your senses. Imagery is important and common in this book and this one excerpt from page 33 when Werner's radio first works really stuck out to me, "A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instuments join in. Flutes? Harps? the song races, seems to loop back over itself." This appeases my senses because it provides auditory, visual, and tactile feelings in my imagination. I can hear the orchestra start with a few instruments, the music going at a fast pace. Every instrument like the flutes and the strings slowly adding to the speeding pace. I can see a piano player furiously beating the keys, not missing a single note. The friction between teh bow and the strings that produces the clear sound of the violin. The flutists constantly refilling their lungs to shoot air through the me...

 ^ Saint-Malo ^ Marie-Laure Leblanc is a girl from France and we see her through the book aged between 6-16. She is skinny but other than that her appearance is left to the imagination. She has been blind since age 6 but her blindness has not kept her from reading and learning to navigate herself through the streets of the city.  Her family is only her father Daniel Leblanc, and her great uncle Etienne. Madame Manec takes care off her great uncle and her whether she is more than a care taker is unknown. Daniel Leblanc is the principal locksmith for the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and Etienne is a recluse who inheirted wealth from his grandfather, has an interest in radios, and sees things ever since he fought in the war. Her goal so far is unclear, but it seems like she just wants life to get back to normal. Currently she is in Saint-Malo in Etienne's house while the Nazis are invading and occupying Paris and Saint-Malo.  She has a small mi...