Comparing Foer's Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

When Oskar’s father passes away, Oskar’s main sources of security, acceptance, and love are gone. Though his mother is still alive, because she is grieving simultaneously, she cannot initially support Oskar in the way that his father did. As a result, Oskar’s communication disorders worsen. The more consumed and obsessed Oskar becomes with his quest, the more qualities feed into his communication disorder and his autistic tendencies become increasingly possessive. As previously mentioned, Oskar is autistic and according to the film, may have developed Asperger syndrome, though the initial results were “inconclusive” (Daldry 2011). However, based on observations from the film as well as research about ASD, it is evident that Oskar displays many non-verbal, but few verbal characteristics of his communication disorder developed with ASD.

Approximately 947,570 Americans have Asperger’s Syndrome (AS), however, it is not an easy disorder to explain (Bashe 19). With multiple conditions and characteristics in each case, AS is not an easy disorder to diagnose. Asperger’s Syndrome was named after Hans Asperger, an Austrian physician, who first described the disorder in 1944 after studying a group of children with similar, unusual characteristics. However, AS was not made an official disease until 1994. Consequently, Asperger disease is just now becoming published and popular so there is still research and questions being answered. Asperger’s Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, is noted by above-average

Readings: • The Autistic Spectrum • Chapter 4 • “First Causes” pg. 115125/Summary pg. 140-141 • Chapter 13  This week’s agenda: Unit 2!

Conflicts create obstacles that lead to one’s fulfillment in life. One of many factors that helps the individual to overcome challenges is the members of the community. By providing guidance, resources, and emotional support, communities can give an individual with the strength to overcome challenges. We can examine this in Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See” and Jonathan Foer’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

The book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close contains many aspects of the real-life hardships of 9/11 and the Holocaust, as well as the mystery of the Sixth Borough of New York. These events help create a better understanding of life under the influence of conflict and the choices characters are forced to make as a result of the conflict. Jonathan Safran Foer 's novel focuses on a boy named Oskar who loses his father in the destruction of the Twin Towers, his mute grandfather 's grief, and the stories of the Sixth Borough his father told him. The history told in this novel comes from multiple generations, which helps create a greater range of understanding grief. The novel interprets

Jonathan Safran Foer says in his novel, “for reasons that need not be explained, you made a strong impression on me” (215). This quote is exactly what you will think once you finish the book. You’ll be so inspired and speechless you won’t be able to know where to start to create a summary. The novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is a book that has been challenged in public school systems since it came out. The novel is about Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old, who lost his father in the 9/11 attacks. After looking through his father’s closet, he found a key and set out on a quest to make sense of his father’s death. The novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a book that should be available to everyone. Even though

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a book written by Jonathan Safran Foer, who centers his story around multiple losses and grief between different characters in the story. The two characters that are the main focus of grief in the story was a little boy named Oskar Schell and his grandfather, Thomas Schell. Oskar had lost his father during the 9/11 attacks and as a little boy he was having a hard time coping with his father’s death. Even after two years, he is still very depressed, inflicting harm on himself and becoming furious with his mother and others around him.

In the years prior to the tragedy, Oskar and his dad would create and solve mysteries of all kinds, with each mystery being more elaborate and more difficult to solve than the one before. The search for this little, one-inch, key’s hole was Oskar’s final puzzle, a final activity with his father, only this time his dad was there in spirit. Oskar wanted nothing more than to solve the mystery, open the lock, and make his father proud. As he visited person after person and traveled through borough after borough, the key around Oskar’s neck began to rekindle the connection between father and son. More important than the contents of any safe, storage room, or apartment the key could possibly fit into, was the idea that Oskar’s father was living through his son’s quest. Although he had been physically taken from his son’s life forever, Oskar’s dad was able to live through his son once again as he embarked on a quest to solve the ultimate

In the novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, readers follow the story of a precocious nine-year-old boy, Oskar Schell, who perseveres through the horrifying aftermath of losing his father in the terrorist attacks of September 11th. The novel uniquely abstains from chronology as it shifts between the perspectives of Oskar and his grandparents as they all endure their grief from tragedy differently.

We all have labels. Hundreds of them, maybe thousands. We are labeled from the day we are born until the day we die. White, black, smart, dumb, successful, worthless, popular, weird, attractive, ugly, Jewish, Muslim, Aspergian. These are just a few of the millions and millions of labels we affix to each other every day. Some labels are subjective. One man’s lunatic could be another man’s visionary. However, there are many labels that are permanent and inescapable. A white newborn will be white for their entire life. They cannot do anything to change their race. They will carry a “white” label to the grave. An Aspergian newborn will be Aspergian for their entire life. They cannot do anything to change their neurological makeup. They will carry an “Aspergian” label to the grave. It really is not up to us whether or not we will have a specific label. However, what we can choose is whether we will wear our labels with pride or wear our labels with shame. There are those of us who choose to pretend our inherent labels don’t exist. Living in denial is not living at all. The sooner one accepts the labels they can’t change, the better. If an individual has Asperger’s, pretending it 's not there won’t make it go away. An early Asperger’s diagnosis is crucial, for it can lead to treatment and acceptance.

In this film the specific disability is Asperger’s with which one of the protagonists, Max Horovitz, experiences the world around him and what becomes the most important prism through which he interacts with the world outside and inside. As told to Max by his psychiatrist, Asperger’s Syndrome, or Aspies as he calls it, is a “neurobiological pervasive developmental disability”, which Max himself does not see as a disability.

Amazingly, one percent of new births will have some type of autism (Autism Society of America, 2010). Asperger’s disorder is one type of Autism, and is at the high end of these disorders. This “disorder, which is also called Asperger's syndrome (AS) or autistic psychopathy, belongs to a group of childhood disorders known as pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) or autistic spectrum disorders”(Exkorn, 2006). A characteristic of this disorder is harsh and strict disruption of a certain type of brain development. The most affected areas of Asperger's disorder is difficulty in social understanding and in behavior or activities that are limited or recurring (Frey, 2003). Students with Asperser’s have different levels of seriousness,

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, as written by Jonathan Safran Foer, offers a truly unique insight into the life of too-smart-for-his-own-good, nine-year-old Oskar Schell. The book mainly follows Oskar in his search for closure in the aftermath of the death of his father, Thomas Schell, who died tragically in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Months after his father’s death, Oskar finds a key in an envelope seemingly hidden away in a vase in his father’s closet. Oskar wonders if this could be another of his father’s famous scavenger hunts; the scavenger hunt to end all scavenger hunts. The envelope has the word “Black” scrawled on it in red pen, Oskar decides Black must be the name o someone who knew his father. In order to discover what exactly the key unlocks, “I decided I would meet every person in New York with the last name

The main journey throughout is Oskar’s search to find the lock that fits his father’s key. By overcoming his fears of strangers, crowded places, and heights, Oskar takes an emotional journey that helps him move past his grief to understand his connection to the world outside of just himself. Oskar’s Grandma has a journey, she tells about her childhood during World War II, and when she arrived in New York City seven years later. She moves past some of her self-doubt by deciding to get pregnant and focus her life on her child. And later on in life, her grandchild, Oskar. Oskar’s grandfather, Thomas Sr., fights the pain of his past. He is unable to escape the trauma of the bombings, he lives his life according to rules that deny him possibility of happiness. After he learns about the death of his son, Oskar’s father, his journey switches from the past and becomes about the

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's ambitious second novel (after Everything is Illuminated), follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he navigates New York City on a quest to unlock the secrets of a mysterious key and its connection to his father, who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center on 09/11. Most of all, the novel is an exploration of grief set against the cultural backdrop of post-09/11 America, interspersed with secondary narrations by Oskar’s grandparents, whose lives parallel their grandson’s in significant ways. Typically, one of the secondary narrators provides one chapter for each chapter of Oskar's narration. Grandma's story is told via letters she writes to Oskar, whereas Grandpa's letters have been written over the course of decades, and are all addressed to his son (Oskar's father, Thomas Schell Jr.).