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    A Study Guide for Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
    A Study Guide for Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
    A Study Guide for Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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    A Study Guide for Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

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    A Study Guide for Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535822961
    A Study Guide for Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

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      Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

      Jonathan Safran Foer

      2005

      Introduction

      Jonathan Safran Foer's complex and idiosyncratic second novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, was published in 2005 to widespread critical acclaim. The novel tells the story of Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old boy who lost his father in the terrorist attack on New York City's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Throughout the novel, Oskar searches for a lock that fits a mysterious key that belonged to his father. As he wanders about the boroughs of New York City, he encounters a wide assortment of people such as a 103-year-old war reporter and a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building. Always at the center of the novel is Oskar, a precocious, troubled child who loves French, plays the tambourine, performs the works of Shakespeare, makes jewelry, and in particular, dreams up inventions that would keep people safe, because he is a pacifist. The novel is unique not only for its protagonist and the story he tells but as a piece of writing. Foer makes extensive use of what is called visual writing. This refers to narratives that consist not only of normal text but also illustrations, odd typographical effects, pages with only a single word or a few words, lists, struck-out words, and unconventional arrangement of the text on the page. At one point, the typeface of a letter written by Oskar's grandfather becomes smaller and smaller because the grandfather fears he is running out of space; eventually, the typeface becomes so small and cramped that the text is illegible and the page is almost black. The novel concludes with a fifteen-page flip-art section that, if flipped backwards, depicts an image of a person jumping from the World Trade Center as it burned on the day of the terrorist attack; flipped forward, though, it depicts a human figure rising to the top of the building.

      Author Biography

      Foer was born on February 21, 1977, in Washington, DC, to a tight-knit Jewish family. His father, Albert, was a lawyer; his mother, Esther Safran, was born in Poland and headed her own public relations firm. Writing seems to have been in the Foer family blood, for one of Jonathan's brothers was the editor of New Republic, and his other brother became a freelance journalist. Foer reports that one of the most significant events of his childhood occurred when he was injured in a classroom chemical accident at the age of eight that resulted in a three-year period during which he suffered a kind of nervous breakdown.

      Foer attended the Georgetown

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