All the Light We Cannot See Lesson Plan

Throughout the novel, readers have seen von Rumpel's methods and strategies for finding the Sea of Flames diamond change significantly. How do his strategies and aproaches change, and why? What could his strategic changes represent in the novel more broadly?

Over the course of the novel, the readers von Rumpel turn from a slightly sick man who thinks often of returning to his wife and daughters at home, to a direly ill man who can only think of the Sea of Flames diamond. He pursues the diamond literally to the end of the continent, and continues trying to hunt it down even under artillery fire, because he believes it will bring him back to life. Of course, in reality, it's...