Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close Response

In Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, the characters of Oskar Schell and his mother deceive each other in hopes of helping each other emotionally after the death of their father and husband, Thomas Schell. Deception can be used for many purposes; it can be used to hurt someone, hide information,

“Bombs Bursting in Air” begins with the narrator talking about her son’s game and her daughter acting silly while singing the national anthem. More specifically, the line “Bombs bursting in air.” The author gives the word “bombs” a whole new definition in this essay. Rather than meaning an explosive weapon often used in war, Johnson refers to the difficult obstacles people face everyday. The more one risks a person takes results in more of life’s destructible bombs. These obstacles explode unexpectedly, and that is exactly what happened to Shannon. Shannon is five years old and is the author’s daughter’s best friend. Doctors found a brain tumor when she went to get an x-ray for a sledding accident. After

Ryan Smithson was born in California, but then early in his life, his family moved to New York. The book starts off with him in high school talking about typical high school things like his job, girlfriend, and what it means to be “cool”. He continues by telling how September 11, 2001, was a normal day in school until the teachers all turned on the TVs in their classrooms. He saw the North tower of the World Trade Center on fire; he thought it had to be an accident and it was just a rogue plane. Then, he witnesses the second plane come and hit the South tower and realized it was an act of terrorism. That day changed him, he started thinking about joining the Army once he got old enough. “If I don’t do something, who will?” (Smithson, 16).

“This is it”, Will said softly as the he is in tower was collapsing. The jet fuel in an inferno about 20 feet away, scorching the concrete. There are dismembered limbs, scorched around him. He remembers the moments before the plane hit the 1st tower. He was terrified when he saw the plane collide. There were objects and debris flying everywhere. The people around him were terrified, wondering if the people in the other tower were alright. The tower was shook from the impact. He knew that he had to run, or else he would die. He sprinted as fast as he could to the stairs, when he was younger he had a similar experience, the Oklahoma City bombing.

Terror, shock, desperateness, all feelings of the Columbine victims. Through the narration of the encounter between Patti Nielson and the shooters during the beginning moments of the Columbine shooting in chapter 11 of Columbine, a memoir, Dave Cullen adopts an informative tone in order to focus young adults’ attention to the ruthlessness of the Columbine shooting.

During the morning of 9/11, everyone thought it would just be a normal day, however, four airliners were hijacked and planes were under attack by terrorists. One plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, another in Pentagon, and the last two planes hit the Twin Towers of New York City. In that moment more than two thousand lives were quickly taken, leaving families and friends devastated. This horrible incident touched so many lives around the world. New York times published the most popular article about 9/11. Serge Schumann the author of this well known piece, interrupted the tragic crisis through ethos, logos, and mainly pathos.

That a homegrown, American terrorist named Timothy McVeigh drove the car and even parked the car at the Ryder trucking in the handicap zone right in front of Murrah Building.“The bomb claimed 168 innocent lives. “The blast killed 168 people, including 19 children. More than 500 people were injured.Timothy J. McVeigh and Terry L. Nichols were convicted of the attack.”These explosion was so bad so many people had died, so many families were upset. But there was this one family that was the most upset.There was a daycare in the building and only one kid got hurt sadly. Because of this horrible explosion a two-year-old little boy had died. The hate and the horrible thoughts of this bad explosion will always be

In conclusion, both Quindlen and Sitton show both sides of tragic events. The imagery used in the articles sets a realistic tone, emphasizing the great emotion that came with both of these tragedies. Innocent lives were taken, four little girls and other countless blacks in the civil rights era and innocent lives in the collapse of the twin towers of 2011. Both changing a nation, shaping it and bringing the people together. Unbelievable events of sorrow still impact America to this day, as the nation honor the lives to the people that sacrificed for all we have, for America. In the articles, both authors use vivid imagery of American disasters and the loss of innocent lives to emphasize its effect on the people that rise as nation through the debris of hate.

I learned quite a bit about the psychological impact of the Boston Marathon Bombing. After researching the effects, I realized how much trauma these innocent people went through during a moment that was supposed to be joyous. People that were healthy and filled with life were either severely injured or had there life taken away by a senseless act. Some of the injured victims will never be able to walk again, others, never able to see their loved ones again. Martin Richard, an 8-year old boy whose life was taken during the attack, will never get to see his family one more time. The amount of grief the Tsarnev brothers caused can never be taken back and it has left a psychological effect on the viewers and the victims – runners, adults and children.

Another example of absolute language used towards the author's’ tone for the destruction of the towers is when the authors say, “poisonous smoke” (Dwyer and Flynn 39). Just like the last passage, smoke is being introduced as an effect of the plane collision. This demonstrates the fact that heavy smoke made breathing unbearable, or near impossible for the employees inside the north tower at the time. The growing flames only increased the amount of smoke, making the ability to breathe within the towers more difficult. The neutrality in the tone of both of the authors greatly impacts the topic of the destruction of the towers. By not using a sarcastic or incredulous tone, Dwyer and Flynn are able to paint a perfect picture of the happenings inside and out of the World Trade Center. After the collision of flight 11 and the north tower, the novel states, “... like a black hole, the gaping, blazing wound in the north tower had a gravitational pull” (Dwyer and Flynn 63). This describes the vast amount of attention in Manhattan being pulled toward the

When most people think of Domestic terrorism one name comes to mind. Timothy McVeigh, who is a well known name and most people, can identify him as the Oklahoma City bomber. He is the man behind the second biggest terrorist attack on American soil to date. The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma killed 168 people and injured hundreds more. History.com Staff. (2009). Which at the time was the biggest terrorist attack before September 11th 2001. Timothy McVeigh lived a rather normal childhood, where he acted just like other kids in his rural town of

As you may remember, my topic is about the impact of 9/11 on the American society. My last book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer mainly talked about a family and the struggles they encountered when they lost someone who meant a lot to each of them. For my next book, I chose The Zero by Jess Walter for two main reasons; neither was because it just simply “matched my topic”. One reason is because the title itself has a deep meaning behind it. The title refers to the ground zero of the twin towers. The other reason is because the main character is a police officer who was a first responder to the attack, and my father is a police officer as well. I wanted to understand how officers cope with events that will give a scare to

Death in any person’s life is tragic, whether sudden or unexpected. Everyone experiences it at least once throughout a lifetime. In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, the reader meets several characters that lose people very close to them. Each person has a certain way of dealing with the death, but overall his or her grief is out of love. These two emotions are triggered by one another. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close displays few characters that show any sign of moving on with their lives. Grief takes over and seems to stay forever. Characters such as Oskar, Grandfather, Mr. Black on the floor above, and Ms. Black in the Empire State Building experience grief

Is there a catharsis in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? If so, when does it happen for Oskar, and if applicable for the reader? Discuss. To discuss whether there are catharsises and if so where, it is important to have a clear definition of ‘catharsis’, so there can be no confusion. According to ‘Oxford’s: Literature Criticism and Style’ a catharsis is: “The purging of emotions which takes place at the end of a tragedy.” A good catharsis closes a story and does not leave the audience, or reader with questions. According to the Oxford definition of a catharsis, it is important to determine whether Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a tragedy, but for this essay, the focus will

Purpose: To inform readers of the effects the recent terrorist attacks have on society today.