Ethical Working Through of Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated

Abstract

This research is based on the memory Jonathan and Alex families faced a traumatic situation during the World War II. The narrator as author, Jonathan Safran Safran uses two other narrators to present the ethical mode of narrative of this novel which are full of traumatic events. The narratives of the novel are based on ethics of the narrators which they present the image of grandfather. Writing traumatic memoir as the form of literary text is difficult job although Safran successfully presents his arts by wring this novel.