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Oskar is the nine-year-old protagonist of the novel: he’s extremely precocious and incredibly imaginative, but he has a lot of fears, worries, anxieties, and guilt. As he walks around New York, Oskar carries a tambourine, which he shakes to try and calm himself.
Oskar is also insatiably curious, and—as his business card, which has about twenty different occupations listed shows—he has a huge range of interests, from making jewelry to physics to archaeology to the Beatles. Oskar keeps a binder of Stuff That Happened to Me that’s filled with plenty of stuff that didn’t happen to him—images of tennis players and astronauts, for example—but provides him with a fossil record of his imagination. Unlike Grandpa’s meticulous photographs of the apartment, Oskar’s book is a sort of photo album of his mind. Oskar uses external cues to help him process his emotions. Oskar describes his grief not as being sad but as “having heavy boots,” which allows him to have a way of expressing an indescribable emotion. The plot of the novel centers around Oskar’s expedition to figure out the purpose of the key that he finds in Dad’s closet, but this journey is really about Oskar finding closure after his Dad’s death on 9/11 and to help him deal with his own survivor’s guilt.
Oskar has an enormous set of rituals and rules by which he organizes his life—he only wears white, won’t go on public transportation, is vegan, hates heights, avoids bridges—and the expedition also allows and forces Oskar to face his rational fears by tackling his irrational ones.
I have a couple of thoughts on this.' Extremely' and 'Incredibly' are common words in Oskar's vocabulary. I don't recall seeing that exact combination of words in the book, I do recall stumbling on 'extremely close' late in the book and being reminded of the title. Kids of Oskar's age often resort to using the same descriptive words over and over, especially using more 'generic' descriptions like extremely or incredibly instead of more precise terms.
(It may have been brutally, unbearably, achingly, painfully, or even unreasonably loud, but a child might likely rely simply on extremely loud.)Also, I thought that the phrase might describe, simply but accurately, the key violence in the book (the WTC attack and the firebombing of Dresden) as seen by the witnesses.I think the phrase also can describe some of the characters' feelings about their lost loved ones. 'loud' might well describe the sudden absence (think 'sound of silence') and of course incredibly close emotionally.It is an unusual title, I'm sure much more could be made of it upon closer thought and more careful attention to the text. Alas I don't have time to be an English major any more! The bombing of dresden also matches this description of 'extremely loud and incredibly close'And in a way the trauma by Oskar, his grandma and grandpa is extremely loudand incredibly close might say close as in almost (we were almost close to one another and might have been if the trauma was not so loud). Over and over characters came close to having a real relationship and missed the mark out of fear.
Or it could be close as in, on this journey of healing we came actually close to each other because sometimes that happened too. I told her 'Ten thousand birds die every year from smashing into windows,' because I'd accidentally found that fact when I was doing some research about the windows in the Twin Towers.so I invented a device that would detect when a bird is incredibly close to a building, and that would trigger an extremely loud birdcall from another skyscraper and they'd be drawn to that.' Think it's part of two reoccuring motifs in the book - 1) Oskar's desire to create something that will protect everyone, reverse time, make everything be OK and 2) hyperbole indicative of how (incredibly) intense everything feels to these (extremely) grieving characters. Sorry if this gives anything away.The whole point of the treasure hunt was for him to meet as many people and talk to as many people as he could in order to find out what the answer to the clues were given by his dad.
(If you saw the movie, his dad (Tom Hanks) said to his mother (Sandra Bullock) that he was going to rig it so that he would have to talk to a lot of people to figure out what the answer to the clues were). Oskar didn't like talking to strange people or going to new places (or bridges, or underground, etc). He used his tambourine to get him through the uncomfortable situations. So I associated him talking to the people and getting out of his comfort zone as the Extremely Loud part.
The Incredibly Close part was the fact that one of the main characters ended up being his Grandfather.I had a hard time reading this book. I was really unclear about what was going on.
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close Review
I saw the movie and it really helped me put things in perspective. I really loved this book and movie. The more I gotten into the book, the more I noticed the use of the words extremely and incredibly. Incredibly close gets used more often.
The one example I can think of without scouring the book is when he talks to William Black and mentions how they were so close to one another. The title drop is on page 250 of my book with Oscar saying, 'Yeah, so I invented a device that would detect when a bird is incredibly close to a building, and that would trigger an extremely loud birdcall from another skyscraper.' ' It's when Ruth Black gives them an extended trivia tour of the Empire State Building.I just take it to mean you've got to be honest and communicate what you want with those close to you or how when you're close to someone silence can deafen you both like many of the relationships in the story of people who went through various traumas (Mrs.
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