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Did the Sea of Flames really protect Marie-Laure? The Sea of Flames is a stone that is supposed to bring incredible luck and life to the holder but unfortunate events and bad luck to those they love. Whether this was true or not is really based on whether you believe in the supernatural. It could definitely seem like the stone was using it's powers as Marie-Laure had lived in building that failed to collapse and her father and great-uncle where arrested. But this was the time where being arrested was common and everyone was in fear of it. I believe that Marie-Laure survived by just being smart about how to go about things and her loved ones just happened to fall under the dark side of the Nazi regime. I think that the stone did very little to determine the events and was just a superstitious item to give hope and greed to the person who had it. When Marie-Laure dropped the stone in the water everything got back to normal, but that was just coincidence (again something that is d...

Ignorance is most likely the theme of the book. It is backed up by the blindness of the main characters Werner and Marie-Laure. Marie-Laure is actually blind and Werner is figuratively blind. Marie-Laure is able to sense her surroundings and is extremely observant, but is unable to actually see the world around her with her eyes. Werner has sight and notices that things are slightly, but fails to predict what is going on in the bigger picture. Both of these characters are curious. Marie-Laure is extremely curious about the world but is ignorant about what things actually look like, having to leave that to her imagination.  Werner is curious about his radio and how things like that works. His curiosity with this has, unbeknownst to him, put him into the heart of a great war. He fails to see the bigger picture of this and sees the pieces little by little. This theme of ignorance is also supported by the constant appearance of numbers throughout the book. For Marie-Laure, she must ...