All the Light We Choose Not to See

Authors

Hayley C. Campbell, Brigham Young UniversityFollow

Keywords

Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, selective blindness, selective remembrance, rewriting history, history is written by the victors

Abstract

Throughout history, society's winners have selectively altered history to best fit the needs of a given population or political regime. Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See seeks to uncover the truth about selective remembrance and blindness as his characters traverse the complicated European landscape of WWII. This paper seeks to unlock this conversation that Doerr introduces through his 2015 novel.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Campbell, Hayley C., "All the Light We Choose Not to See" (2017). Student Works. 201.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/201

Document Type

Class Project or Paper

Publication Date

2017-03-18

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

English

University Standing at Time of Publication

Senior

Course

English 365

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