Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

“Boroughs and Neighbors”: Protagonist Trauma Jonathan Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” is often viewed and criticized and adored due to its focus on the 9/11 Terrorist Attack. Many people believe the United States faced a traumatic event due to conflicting views. Published in the summer of 2009, Matthew Mullins article “Boroughs and Neighbors: Traumatic Solidarity in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” provided his readers with the insight of violence and how Foer uses his protagonist in…...

Finding the Lock of a Lost Key: The Search for Justice after 9/11 Imagine being in school on an ordinary day. On that seemingly ordinary day, schools everywhere release all their students early and have them get picked up by their parents. All of the kids would be very excited to have this happen, not knowing about the reason. This is what happens to Oskar Schell. He comes home early from school, only to find out his father had perished…...

Identity through the Past The concept of the past is one that causes a wide variety of emotions, ranging anywhere from an pleasant rush of nostalgia to an overwhelming sea of sinking memories. Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close involves the retelling of pasts through the concept of collections. Although these compilations of miscellaneous items appear to be simple pastimes, they serve as symbolic reminders of each character's past experiences throughout life. The main character of the…...

A Synopsis of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close In the 2011 movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, directed by Stephen Daldry, Oskar's father dies in the September 11, 2001 attacks. This really has a negative impact on his life, so he tries to solve the mystery of his father's secret key in order to reconcile. Along the way, he had some encounters that he really was not expecting. When he went to his grandmother's apartment, Oskar came across a stranger…...

September 11th shook not only New York City but the whole world, as everyone was now filled with fear and unease. In the novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, author Jonathan Safran Foer focuses on the tragic loss one boy, Oskar Schell, faced as a result of this tragic event. Through Oskar’s journey of having to deal with the abrupt death of his father, it is evident that due to its power, grief comes with the desperate need to find…...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close encourages us to closely examine the time we have in our lives. We never know when the last time we will be seeing someone will be, we must be responsible with how we spend our time and we are responsible for the way we treat people. The message that is conveyed to me an abundance of times is to not take advantage of the time you have, because it flies. This is represented on the…...