How you say something matters just as much as what you say. Great ideas are more successful when they are shared in an appealing manner. Doerr’s book has both incredible ideas and a wonderful method of sharing them. In All the Light We Cannot See, Doerr uses multiple literary elements to develop the story in a way that catches readers, and reels them in until they cannot help but continue reading. Of these literary elements, character focus, language, and character development are the most prominent.
First of all, the use of character focus greatly enhances the plotline in All the Light We Cannot See. The author changes the focus each chapter, essentially telling two stories at once that eventually overlap and