How is courage demonstrated in All the Light We Cannot See? What characters are the most courageous and why? Explain.

Courage comes in the form of family loyalty. One review describes this as “a novel that celebrates the power of family and love.” Marie-Laure's great-uncle Etienne says “If your same blood doesn’t run in the arms and legs of the person you’re next to, you can’t trust anything” (ch 84), because he believes that during these hard times, the only people who can be trusted are family. However, the novel also places value on the family one constructs around oneself: the relationship between Etienne and Madame Manec, the relationship between Werner and Volkheimer, and between Frau Elena with Werner and Jutta—people who share no blood yet have devotion, love, and loyalty between them. It is this bond that helps the characters to survive some of the major conflicts of the novel.