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Regardless of his remarkable intelligence. Oksar is nevertheless a tramatized child and, undersandably, responds in childlike ways to his fathers death and the aftermath f that awful loss. Discuss and analyze these two exstremes that coxist within Oskar

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November 13 , 2008

Extremely loud and incredibly close

`Extremely loud and incredibly close ' is one of the first novels written on the experiences

of the terrorist attack of 9 /11 on the famous World Trade Center . A New York writer

Jonathan Safran Foer in 2005 , wrote this novel . This is a novel dealing with the feelings

of a 9-year-old child who has lost his father in the 9 /11 terrorist attacks in New York City

and the child himself

narrates the whole story . The child , Oksar is extremely intelligent

and exceptionally close to his father and he observes life in a very different way . After

the death of his father , when he spends time with his father 's things he accidentally finds

a key in an envelop with `black ' written on it . He wants to know the truth behind these

words and its relation to the key and the whole story is his experience of looking for

them . Oksar 's search for the facts behind the key shows the hunt for the reasons and

integrates them with the attacks of September 11 , 2001

While writing the novel , Foer takes care of the fact that Oksar is just 9 years and his child

like behavior is also depicted in the story . Normally it is not seen that a child who is

extraordinary intelligent looses his child like innocence but here in this novel , Oksar is

intelligent and mature at one time but his reactions...

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