Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Works Cited Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Boston, MA: Mariner, 2005. Print.
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Annotation This book is told through the eyes of an extremely smart and funny nine-year-old who is also the narrator, Jonathan Safran Foer. He tells a story of the effects of his fathers tragic death, in the 9/11 terrorist attack, on his father, Oskar Schell, and his family as a whole. Oskar's father not only endured the pain of being trapped in the towers, but was killed due to not being able to escape. To add to the stories allready tragic story line, Oskar's grandparents had also witnessed terrorist attacks, like that of 9/11, during World War II and this brings back their old memories. The peoples horrible deaths in the attack, change the emotions of the main characters in similar, yet different ways depending on their past experiences. To add to the main, staking process, of dismissing memories of his father, Oscar finds close that only make him dig deeper into his fathers old life. This not only makes it harder to get over his dads death, but also leaves many doors open for possibilities on what his father hid from the rest of his family when he was alive. Was it just something for work, or more?
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Passage/Commentary
Passage #1 “Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things to have reasons for why they are.” (13)
Commentary #1 This was one of my favorite quotes out of the entire book because I question religion all the time so, it was very easy to relate to. I’m not an atheist and will never be able to completely deny something so powerful, but this quote seemed to wrap up my entire belief on life, everything here has something it was made to do, and everything and everyone is here for some reason, not just by accident. Although I am not atheist, I believe the atheists can have vivid imaginations, some may even be more vivid then religious people.
Passage #2 “I shook my tambourine the whole
Works Cited Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Boston, MA: Mariner, 2005. Print.
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Annotation This book is told through the eyes of an extremely smart and funny nine-year-old who is also the narrator, Jonathan Safran Foer. He tells a story of the effects of his fathers tragic death, in the 9/11 terrorist attack, on his father, Oskar Schell, and his family as a whole. Oskar's father not only endured the pain of being trapped in the towers, but was killed due to not being able to escape. To add to the stories allready tragic story line, Oskar's grandparents had also witnessed terrorist attacks, like that of 9/11, during World War II and this brings back their old memories. The peoples horrible deaths in the attack, change the emotions of the main characters in similar, yet different ways depending on their past experiences. To add to the main, staking process, of dismissing memories of his father, Oscar finds close that only make him dig deeper into his fathers old life. This not only makes it harder to get over his dads death, but also leaves many doors open for possibilities on what his father hid from the rest of his family when he was alive. Was it just something for work, or more?
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Passage/Commentary
Passage #1 “Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things to have reasons for why they are.” (13)
Commentary #1 This was one of my favorite quotes out of the entire book because I question religion all the time so, it was very easy to relate to. I’m not an atheist and will never be able to completely deny something so powerful, but this quote seemed to wrap up my entire belief on life, everything here has something it was made to do, and everything and everyone is here for some reason, not just by accident. Although I am not atheist, I believe the atheists can have vivid imaginations, some may even be more vivid then religious people.
Passage #2 “I shook my tambourine the whole
Cited: Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Boston, MA: Mariner, 2005. Print.