Von Rumple has tracked down all three copies of the Sea of Flames, and is on his way to Saint-Malo to retrieve.Madame Manec dies of illness (pg 298) and Etienne continues on her work in the resistance and begins.Werner is forced to join the military, where he meets up with Volkheimer again.Marie-Laure learns of the seaside grotto with the snails and is given a key to it by Harold Bazin.Frederick gets singled out, teased, made fun of, and beaten, and leaves the school with major brain damage.Madame Manec starts up her small part of the French resistance with other women.The students torture and kill the prisoner taken to Werner’s school, but Frederick refuses to take part.Werner goes home with Frederick for winter break and learns a lot about him.Frederick is the first student at the school who loses the “weakest” game and is beaten brutally because of it.

Daniel LeBlanc returns to Paris and is arrested, and is only ever heard from again in letters of questionable.Von Rumpel is on the case, finds the museum, and starts to get a clue of where to search.Etienne must turn in all his radios because of the German occupation-he keeps the transmitter in the attic illegally.The exercise of singling out a weakest member of the class at Werner’s school starts up (pg.Claude Levitte reports Daniel LeBlanc to the police for suspicious activity because he is taking measurements for his scale model of Saint-Malo (pg.Von Rumpel is introduced, and he is searching for treasures-particularly the Sea of Flames (pg 141).Werner begins school and Jutta is unhappy about it (pg 131).The Germans invade France, Marie-Laure and her father flee to Saint-Malo with the Sea of Flames.Marie-Laure hears rumors about the Sea of Flames being displayed in the museum where her father works, and.Werner gets better with radios, increasing their reception range, and listens to French broadcasts intended to.Hitler begins to exert his influence-two boys from Werner’s orphanage join the Hitler Youth (pg 42).Marie-Laure is able to successfully use the scale model of her neighborhood to walk around (pg 41).Werner learns how to tinker with radios and fix them as a young boy (pg 38).

Marie-Laure’s father makes her a model of Paris, she begins to learn it (pg 35).

Werner acquires his first radio and listens to classical music (pg 32).

Marie-Laure goes blind at six years old (pg 23, 27).

The order in which they are written into the book is vastly different. This is, to the best of our ability, the order of events as they actually occurred.

Because the novel jumps through time and perspectives so much, a timeline/chronological order can help greatly with understanding exactly what happens.

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