Roberta Kobbe answers “What happened to the Sea of Flames stone...”

Gail Poag Smith asked this question about All the Light We Cannot See:

What happened to the Sea of Flames stone at the end of the book? Was it still in the sea?

Roberta Kobbe I don't remember Marie-Laure telling or sharing with Werner the contents of the house/box. She just left it in the grotto, insistent that it be in the…moreI don't remember Marie-Laure telling or sharing with Werner the contents of the house/box. She just left it in the grotto, insistent that it be in the water. WHAT IF...Werner returned and took the Sea of Flames from the water, and had it on him when he was killed? Possibly, taking it back from the sea caused his illness and his death; in that the curse was "reversed" because the sea was denied it's gem?
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deleted user The stone would give the keeper eternal life, but those around them prematurely die, is the legend. Many prematurely die in the story anyway, of war. ...more
Nov 11, 2016 09:51AM

Wendy Forte MAYBe that's why Marie was 100 yrs old at the end of the book, she NEVER got rid of the stone, she never dropped it in the ocean. ...more
Dec 16, 2016 04:03PM

Holly I agree that he carried it away and lost it when he was killed by the land mine. I think it waits in the field to continue its evil (?) path just as i ...more
Apr 15, 2018 06:59PM

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