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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Learning about grief through a child's experiences.
Posted on:
April 25, 2012
 Jonathan Safran Foer's novel is in many ways about the power of human imagination and invention. Ask Jonathan about Oskar's inventions: What about a
birdseed shirt? What about the world's biggest tin-can phone? What about pneumatic tubes connecting all the boroughs of New York? If you've read about some of Foer's
projects, you might well think that these are real inventions he's created on behalf of worthy causes. Once you get to know 9-year-old Oskar, the narrator of Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Close, you'll realize that these are only a few of the hundreds of ideas he dreams up daily, some of them preposterous, all of them with a single
purpose. Oskar, whose father was killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, is obsessed with keeping everyone he loves safe from harm.
But there are many things he doesn't know about: why his father, who owns a jewelry store, had a meeting at the World Trade Center on September 11. Or why his mother seems to have gotten on with her life with a guy named Ron. Or why Oskar's grandmother across the street has never let him meet the renter who lives in her spare bedroom. Or, most curious, what a mysterious key he discovers in his father's closet unlocks.
The book, published in 2006, has been brought into the spotlight through the recent film by the same name starring Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks. Both follow Oskar's journey to find the answer to the mysterious key, as well as to many other questions in his life.
- What, if any, answer does Foer's novel offer us to this question of personal meaning and significance?
- How does the book compare with the movie? Which did you like the best?
- What is your view of the way that Oskar's mother deals with his grief
- What is the way through grief/trauma that Foer proposes with this novel? To what extent do you think he is right? What else would you suggest?
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