Does Safran Foe Use Birds In Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

In the novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foe, the author uses birds to convey a message about soaring through life effortlessly. Birds are able to fly due to the fact of them having hollow bones, this shows that birds let go of regrets and burdens. When birds let go of burdens they are able to fly high in the sky because nothing is weighing them down. In the novel, it is hard for the characters to let go of the death of Oskar’s father. For example, Oskar cannot move on from his father’s death, Thomas can not move on from Anna’s death and grandma cant move on from her family and Anna’s death. Each bird that appeared in this novel would show one of the characters burdens. An example would be when Oskar turns on Mr.