Marie-Laure learns that her father left her the Sea Of Flames, and she finds it in the model. Von Rumpel is finally able to figure out where the jewel is and confronts Marie-Laure one afternoon as she walks back from the cave. Marie-Laure tells him she doesn’t know what he is talking about. When Marie-Laure takes too long to get home Etienne is able to go outside, in search of her. Citizens in Saint-Malo learn that the Americans are about to arrive, and rejoice. At a dinner party Von Rumpel learns that the German war effort is failing. Werner recovers from his illness, but is haunted by the child that died in Vienna. He reaches the ocean in Saint-Malo and writes his sister about it. When Werner hears Etienne broadcast he realises it is the Frenchman from his childhood, and decides not to report it. He does, by himself, locate the house. He sees Marie-Laure exit the house and is enamored by her.
Chapter 114 Edge of the World
Chapter 115 Numbers
Chapter 116 May
Letter #11
Chapter 118 “Claire de Lune”
Chapter 119 Antenna
Chapter 120 Big Claude
Chapter 121 Boulangerie
Chapter 122 Grotto
Chapter 123 Agoraphobia
Chapter 124 Nothing
Chapter 125 Forty Minutes
- Werner receives a letter from Jutta
- Volkheimer reads it to him
- She says that Herr Siedler, a mining official, congratulates Werner for becoming a soldier
- She also says the Frau Elena has a toothache, but is feeling better
- Werner and some other soldiers go to see a colonial (von Rumpel)
- He says that there are people sending music over the radio in France
- Werner and the other soldiers go to investigate
- Volkheimer says that it will not take long
Chapter 115 Numbers
- Von Rumpel goes to the doctor and the doctor says the tumor in his throat is getting worse
- He only has 3-4 months to live
- He only has 3-4 months to live
- Von Rumpel receives a call from Jean Brignon
- Jean told von Rumpel about Daniel because von Rumpel promised to help Jean’s cousin
- Jean told von Rumpel about Daniel because von Rumpel promised to help Jean’s cousin
- Jean says that Daniel was arrested for trying to leave Saint-Malo
- Police say that Daniel has made detailed drawing of the city
- Jean says he learned this from Claude Levitte
- Von Rumpel wonders why Daniel was trying to leave the city and hangs up the phone without discussing Jean’s cousin
- Etienne goes to Madame Ruelle’s bakery and she tells him that the resistance needs to location of German weapons and outposts
- She explains that he would have to walk around the city and write down the locations
- This is a crime which would get him killed
- This is a crime which would get him killed
- She says that he has to do it that night because the next day, anyone who could be a resistance member will be arrested
- He agrees to do it
Chapter 116 May
- Marie-Laure goes to the bakery and asks for a regular loaf of bread
- Madame Ruelle tells her that she is amazing
- She also tells Marie-Laure to tell Etienne, “[t]he mermaids have bleached hair” (Doerr 402).
- Marie-Laure tells Etienne this message and he knows that it means that the Allies are going to attack Northern France within a week
- The soldiers are searching for the radio
- Werner and Bernd are go to the Hotel of Bees to find the radio signal
- Airplanes fly over the city and Werner can not tell if they are German or not
Letter #11
- Werner writes a letter to Jutta apologizing for not writing for so long
- He says his fever is better
- He says he loves being in Saint-Malo and that he can look at the sea
- When he looks at the sea, he forgets about being a soldier
- He asks Jutta to say hello to Frau Elena and the remaining orphans
Chapter 118 “Claire de Lune”
- The soldiers are still looking for the radio
- One night, Werner hears an enemy broadcast about troops
- He remembers listening to this broadcast as a child
- The same man is speaking
- There is still classical music in the background
- The same man is speaking
- A few minutes later, Volkheimer asks if he found anything and he said ‘no’
Chapter 119 Antenna
- 8 soldiers have been permanently stationed in the Hotel of Bees
- This includes Werner, Volkheimer, and Bernd
- This includes Werner, Volkheimer, and Bernd
- Werner continues to listen to the broadcast without telling anyone
- More French military matters are discussed over the broadcast
- The classical music is the same from when he listened to it as a child
- Werner figures out that the broadcast has to be coming from a tall house near the ocean
- He decides to visit it
- He decides to visit it
Chapter 120 Big Claude
- Claude Levitte has been doing well as an informer
- He tells Germans information and gets food and money
- He tells Germans information and gets food and money
- Von Rumpel arrives at Saint-Malo and is looking for Daniel
- Claude tells him where Etienne’s house is
Chapter 121 Boulangerie
- Werner walks to Etienne’s house and is trying to figure out how to enter the house without making the broadcaster (Etienne) not think he is going to be arrested
- He will pretend to be French
- He sees Marie-Laure and that she is blind
- Werner is nervous
- She walks by him without noticing him
Chapter 122 Grotto
- Etienne makes a broadcast every night
- Marie-Laure reads 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to him
- One day, Marie-Laure goes to the grotto that Harold Bazin showed her
- She hears a German man speaking French ask her what is in her bag
- She had a loaf of bread with codes in it
- She says she is collecting snails and he knows she is lying because she has not collected any
- He says he wants her to answer questions about Daniel who is in prison
- Marie-Laure is sad to hear the news and tells herself and her father that she should not have gone outside
- He tells her that he will only ask one question
- She remembers her nickname, the Whelk
- She is unable to be affected by anything
- She is unable to be affected by anything
Chapter 123 Agoraphobia
- Etienne waits for Marie-Laure to return
- He knows that she goes to the ocean everyday, but she is taking twice as long as usual
- He worries that she is captured or the bakery was set on fire
- Etienne leaves the house to look for her
- He is very nervous
Chapter 124 Nothing
- Von Rumpel continues to question Marie-Laure about her father, and what he might have left behind
- Marie-Laure opens the bread she is carrying and eats the piece of paper, so the German soldier can’t discover it
- She tells the German about the model of Saint-Malo her dad made her
Chapter 125 Forty Minutes
- Etienne and Madame Ruell look for Marie-Laure
- He suddenly remembers the cave he used to go to with Hubert Bazin and finds Marie-Laure there
- Werner wonders who the girl he saw is
- Werner also wonders if Volkheimer knows he isn’t reporting something
- Both the Neumanns are sent to the frontlines
- Etienne tells Marie-Laure that she must stay inside and he will go to the bakery instead
- Rethinking her father's letter she realises what he meant by “Look inside the house”
- She goes to the model and solves the puzzle of Ettinnes house
- Inside the house is the Sea Of Flames
- Inside the house is the Sea Of Flames
- She goes to the model and solves the puzzle of Ettinnes house
- The battle of Brittany began
- Citizens of Saint-Malo are sure they will be freed from the Germans soon
- Etienne locates German guns, plots the coordinates, and broadcasts them
- The next day he, and other men in the city, are take to Fort National
- The next day he, and other men in the city, are take to Fort National
- Marie-Laure worries the jewel is the reason her father was arrested, Hubert Bazin disappeared, and Madame Manec died
- She thinks it is the reason Von Rumpel has come
- She decides to keep the stone a secret and returns it to the model house
- Etienne leaves to go plot the coordinates and tells Marie-Laure that he will only be out for an hour
- Etienne has broadcast one set of coordinates, but while finding the second Von Rumpel confronts him
- Marie-Laure wakes to the sound of guns firing
- She discovers Etienne is not yet home
- She checks the trip wire, it is still intact
- She checks the trip wire, it is still intact
- She fills the tub with water, and puts two buckets of water in her room
- She then begins to read
- Werner and his crew eat a meal with Austrian allies
- A cannon waits is positioned on the side of the hotel
- Werner has realised the Americans have pinned them against the sea
- He feels his place in time
- He feels his place in time
- He is happy that he was able to keep the girl from getting arrested
- He sees a plane drop leaflets telling the citizens to depart Saint-Malo immediately