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**HUGE SPOILER ALERT** Was anyone else as disappointed as I was with Werner's death? I was so mad after reading it. I thought it was pointless and dissatisfying, almost like Doerr was done with him after he and Marie-Laure met, though I'm sure the author thought long and hard about it. Any thoughts?

Janice Kohl I was saddened at Werner's death and hoped right up to the sentence describing the explosion that he would live.. But I think his living would have di…moreI was saddened at Werner's death and hoped right up to the sentence describing the explosion that he would live.. But I think his living would have distracted mightily from the previous actions of the character's brave selfless actions and would not of brought out the reason the story is written as well as it did. His dying made the story very real and like life. No Doerr was not done with him! Werner lives on because he died and the goodness in this story lives on. (less)

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