Oskar is very childish, which made me think that Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a childrens book. But the two point-of-views are about such different things it is very hard to figure out how they weave together only until the end. Oskar, the nine-year-old and Thomas, his grandfather the renter in his grandmother’s apartment. The story is told from two different perspectives. I give Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer three out of five hearts because it was a super confusing and interesting story. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father’s closet. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. Title & Author: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Book Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer I thought Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was a super interesting but also confusing novel. I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live
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