All the Light We Cannot See Lesson Plan

How is being in the army different than how Werner thought it would be? How do his experiences differ from how the image German authorities and the Reich portray?

By the time Werner is actually called to the front, he's already begun to lose faith in his superiors and the Nazi regime more broadly. However, when he actually meets his fellow soldiers, he sees the true nature of so many of his peers: they are just scared, desperate young men, just like himself. All of them make school-boy jokes constantly, and though they have a clear mission, much of their time seems to be spent endlessly wandering the countryside, periodically finding illegal radios and killing their...