Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close By Jonathan Foer

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Besides the intuitive black-and-white graphics, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close displays a series of gripping texts that range from profound seriousness to adventurous lightheartedness. The story follows through the footsteps of a nine year old boy named Oscar Schell after his father passed away from the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Oscar is left traumatized and is constantly unhappy with himself and others. Through his story, Oscar illustrates how to forgive himself from the feelings of regret, loss, and emotional strain. Furthermore, he provides an explicit example showing that even after a painful heart-rending experience, one can overcome fear and transcend grief.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is, on the surface, about the ways in which a family copes with grief, and the ways in which a young boy, Oskar Schell, copes with the loss of his father in the aftermath of 9/11. However, at the root of the novel, the author is expressing a sentiment about the very human difficulty of expressing deep, internalized emotions. In the wake of great emotional pain, people are prone to retreat within themselves, internalize their emotions, and lose their ability to express and share their feelings with those around them. In short, they miscommunicate. Both Oskar Schell and Thomas Schell (two of the book’s main narrators) have experienced tremendous pain and loss, and they both follow this pattern of being hurt

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

Nostalgia lives in our veins, we breath and vision it all the time. Nostalgia was a disease throughout the early 1700’s, was coined with a mixture of Greek words of returning home and pain: Throughout the war, nostalgic were affecting the troops over the scale of homesick to perform their duties and the only option to recover the troop was by sending them back home. Now nostalgia has influenced modern day as generations expresses time back at their “good old days”, wishing that they could flashback. Nostalgic has even swayed the media perceptive as recreating their old films or shows in the new modern days to fill the gap of their childhood, and showing their children their favorite shows on television when they were a kid.

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In Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, setting plays an important role, driving the actions of several characters in the novel. Oskar Schell, who is the incredibly bright nine-year-old narrator, lost his father in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Shortly after this traumatic event, Oskar Schell searches for a meaning of a key he found in his father’s closet. With the last name “Black” written on the envelope which the key was in, he is determined to meet every person in New York City with the last name Black. His father’s death made Oskar feel disconnected, not only from the world but also from his father. He decided that the only way he could become closer to his father is by finding

“I don’t speak. I’m sorry,” (Foer 30) is a phrase frequently written by Thomas Schell Sr., a character in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, after he survives the traumatic Dresden bombing. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer explores a different traumatic experience, the effect of Thomas Jr.’s death in 9/11 on his son Oskar. After his father’s death, Oskar seeks understanding and comfort in his search for the lock to fit the key left to him by his father. Similarly, Bruce Springsteen’s album The Rising examined the many ways people find comfort after a disaster, particularly after the 9/11 attacks. The common theme of seeking comfort after a loss is demonstrated in both Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and The Rising as a literal journey and as a search for physical and emotional human connection, although The Rising emphasizes finding comfort in religion.

2,823 dead, 19,500 body parts collected, 1,300 orphans, and 131 still classified as missing. Eleven trillion dollars will never be able to repair the minds of the 422,000 New York citizens who now suffer from PTSD, yet nine year old Oskar Schell finds himself battling in the midst of it all. When the world came crashing down on September eleventh at 8:45am, school children were shuffled down the streets of New York and back to what could only be considered the comfort of their homes. Oskar Schell unlocked his apartment door only to be greeted by the messages on the answering machine from no other than his father, Thomas Schell. When the phone rings and the caller id is his father, Oskar’s world turns upside down with the simple dial tone. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer tells the compelling story of a boy named Oskar and his mission to find the Black that has the lock that fits the key. Desperately trying to piece together the fragments his deceased father left behind after 9/11 tragically took his life, Oskar delves into a pool of mental instability, locks and keys, and the mysterious renter that lives with his grandmother.

In Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell has reveals traits of fear and anxiety by attempting to reach closure after his father died. For example, when Oskar failed to pick up the phone when his father called, “I pressed the Message Play button, which I hadn’t done since the worst day, and that was on the old phone” (Foer 288). One of his many character traits such as fear. He was so hesitant and frozen in fear that what seemed like a simple task of picking up the phone, he simply could not. In addition, Oskar is so guilty and anxious he cannot let go of not picking up the phone, “I couldn’t explain…that I miss him more, more than she or anyone else missed him, because I couldn’t tell her about what

There is an underlying reason why two humans from separate cultures, separated by miles of distance, can strongly relate to a cliche film or sappy novel. A relatable theme found in our society is trauma; the allure of tragedy is so familiar to the masses, and it’s lingering effects are universally recognized. It is innate to all human beings. The human condition allows for this type of collective connection. Not only does everyone have these similar struggles, but they are continuous in nature. They do not clearly start or begin but merely cycle through. The human experience is a shared experience that is ongoing despite the man-made structure and boundary of time.

Nostalgia is one of the most potent emotions in the human psyche. The impulse to romanticize an idealized past is an inclination that most people have felt at one time or another. Sometimes, revisiting a familiar place can evoke memories from the far-removed past and trigger an intense longing for another time. These feelings can often affect people more strongly than the actual event did. As a result, nostalgia can often cause people to interpret reality in distorted, unhealthy ways.