Werner learns that Volkheimer also joined the Nazi school because he was trying to escape his town. While flipping through radio signals, still trapped in the basement of the hotel, Werner comes across Marie-Laure broadcasting. She is reading from her book. Marie-Laure has managed to fill one of her cans with water and make it back to the attic. This is where she decides to read her book, and broadcast it out, in the hope that someone will hear her. Von Rumpel sleeps in the house, it's hard for him to continue to search it. He is dying and very weak.
Chapter 106 Fort National
Chapter 107 In the Attic
Chapter 108 The Heads
Chapter 109 Delirium
Chapter 111 The Beams
Chapter 112 The Transmitter
Chapter 113 Voice
- The bombing that the Allies have done have stopped
- The final American plane dropped a bomb on the Fort National
- 380 Frenchmen are held captive there
- 9 Frenchmen died
- Some of the Frenchmen that died were playing bridge
Chapter 107 In the Attic
- Marie-Laure is hiding in the room with the radio
- She is very hungry and wants to run out of the house to find food, but she knows this is a bad idea
- She imagines talking with her father and him telling her to stay put even though she is hungry.
- She hears someone enter the house and urinate in the 6th floor bathroom
- He tells himself, “Das Häuschen fehlt, wo bist du Häuschen?” (Doerr 377).
- Marie-Laure does not know what this means
- This roughly translates to “The little house is missing, where are you little house”
- He is looking for the model of city that Daniel made (more specifically the house that Marie-Laure is in), because the Sea of Flames is inside of it
- He is looking for the model of city that Daniel made (more specifically the house that Marie-Laure is in), because the Sea of Flames is inside of it
- Marie-Laure does not know what this means
- Marie-Laure imagines her father telling her not to open the cans that she has, because the intruder could hear
- Then, a bombing starts and she takes the opportunity to use her knife and brick to open one of the cans because the bombing will muffle the noise
- Inside are green beans
- She eats them and feels much better
- She eats them and feels much better
- Inside are green beans
Chapter 108 The Heads
- Werner tries to use the radio to get someone to help him get out of the hotel
- He asks Volkheimer is he enjoyed being called “the Giant” in school, he did not
- Werner wonders is using the electrical wire from Volkeimer’s light to power the radio would be a good idea
- This would give more time for his cry for help to be heard
- This would give more time for his cry for help to be heard
- Werner contemplates suicide
Chapter 109 Delirium
- Von Rumpel is in front of Etienne’s house
- He takes morphine to help with pain
- He wonders if his disease is getting worse
- He thinks that if he finds the Sea of Flames, he can save himself
- He looks back at the model of the city that Daniel made and knows the stone is inside of it somehow
- Marie-Laure hears the intruder walking away from her and wonders if she will leave
- She is thirsty and wonders if she should risk getting out of her hiding spot to get water, she decides to do so
- She walks to the bathroom and smell that the intruder is inside of the house still
- In the next room, there is a bucket where Etienne collected rainwater
- Marie-Laure drinks the water and remembers that drinking a lot of water can trick the body into feeling full
- Marie-Laure walks back to the wardrobe and knows that the intruder is a few floors below her
- She finds her copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and takes it
Chapter 111 The Beams
- Werner tries to fix the radio
- Volkheimer says that his great-grandfather was a sawyer for the navy (chopped wood)
- They hear more bombing above them
- They tell each other that they both were desperate to leave the army
Chapter 112 The Transmitter
- Marie-Laure looks for Etienne’s transmitter
- She wonders if anyone listens to his broadcasts anymore
- She turns on the transmitter and reads 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Chapter 113 Voice
- Werner has been trapped for 4 days
- He then hears a French girls with a great accent (Marie-Laure) who is reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- The broadcast quickly ends
- Werner thinks about Jutta
- He remembers hearing about a Nazi rally as a child and everyone in the orphanage was very impressed
- Jutta saw through the Nazis’ views
- Jutta saw through the Nazis’ views
- Werner wonders how she was to conscious of the world at such a young age