compare and contrast
Clarissa Caplinger Compare and contrast: Oskar’s personality
In the novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The book's narrator, a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell whose father (Thomas Schell) dies from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Oskar then copes with his father missing from his life by trying to find the owner of a key he found in his father’s closet.
Now, this story’s protagonist Oskar Schell is a very complicated character. He loves asking random questions like “what if everyone swallowed them (microphones), and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? Oskar also speaks a little bit of French, “obviously, my anus would say,”Ce n’etais pas moi!” (Foer) He is a determined, free-spirited, and strong-willed boy, but he is also very lost and depressed, living a hard life due to his inability to cope with his father’s untimely death.
Compared to this character I have a set of very different traits. When I was nine years old I did not ask questions that didn’t somehow apply to real life. The questions I asked where more realistic questions like where did babies come from, or why is the sky blue, not what if scenarios. I did not speak any French whatsoever when I was a child. I did speak a little Spanish from my grandmother whose failed attempts to teach me Spanish never stuck much today. But I never really told people what Spanish words I knew because I grew up with a lot of Latin speakers so there wasn’t much to brag about. I did however brag about my knowledge of animals from watching hours of animal planet every day, like “Did you know elephants stay pregnant up to two years before giving birth? Silly
In the novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The book's narrator, a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell whose father (Thomas Schell) dies from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Oskar then copes with his father missing from his life by trying to find the owner of a key he found in his father’s closet.
Now, this story’s protagonist Oskar Schell is a very complicated character. He loves asking random questions like “what if everyone swallowed them (microphones), and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? Oskar also speaks a little bit of French, “obviously, my anus would say,”Ce n’etais pas moi!” (Foer) He is a determined, free-spirited, and strong-willed boy, but he is also very lost and depressed, living a hard life due to his inability to cope with his father’s untimely death.
Compared to this character I have a set of very different traits. When I was nine years old I did not ask questions that didn’t somehow apply to real life. The questions I asked where more realistic questions like where did babies come from, or why is the sky blue, not what if scenarios. I did not speak any French whatsoever when I was a child. I did speak a little Spanish from my grandmother whose failed attempts to teach me Spanish never stuck much today. But I never really told people what Spanish words I knew because I grew up with a lot of Latin speakers so there wasn’t much to brag about. I did however brag about my knowledge of animals from watching hours of animal planet every day, like “Did you know elephants stay pregnant up to two years before giving birth? Silly