All The Light We Cannot See is written differently from most books. It has over 200 chapters and each one is no more than a page or two long. The narration of these chapters switch off throughout the book, with Werner, and Marie-Laure. The two narrators lives are drastically different and contain only minor connections, even at the end of the book when the two of them meet their interactions are very short. One of the reasons that Doerr writes his novel in this disconnected way is to show the impossibility of telling a story about WW2. It shows how Werner and Marie-Laure are two out of millions of people who lived through the war and that they are only a fraction of the stories that could be told about the war. Doerr acknowledges that Werner and Marie-Laure’s stories are important of course but in order to make their story more poignant he shows that they have no actual impact on the course of history. At the end of the novel when Werner dies.