Soon Thomas can only communicate with others through his written words, and fills books and books with words and feelings used in daily life.
And he became a man who was slowly losing his speech. A man who had lost the ones he loved during the bombings in Dresden in 1945, and from then on was afraid to love or be loved. He doesn’t want to accept his father is really gone, and thinks the person that knows more about the key might give him a better explanation of what really happened to his dad…Įxtremely Loud & Incredibly Close is also about man called Thomas Schnell, who we follow in Dresden and later in New York.
Oskar decides to go on a quest to find out more about the key, planning to visit every single person with the last name Black in NYC. Inside he finds a key, but no clue as to what it opens. One day his eyes fix on a blue vase and when he breaks by accident, he discovers an envelope with Black written on it by his father. But one day his world collapses as his father dies during the 9/11 attack… Oskar seems unable to coope with his feelings, or what he calls heavy boots, and both his mother and grandmother fail in consoling him the way he needs. He asks a million questions per day and is always inventing things in his mind just to try and make the world a better place.
I’ll make the summary short since it’s hard to explain the book without revealing too much… The main character Oskar is a young boy trying to grow up, confused about a lot of things in life and wanting to understand everything. I’ll be reading more from Jonathan Safran Foer in the future for sure! A great read and definitely recommended if you don’t mind entering the mind of a confused but brilliant and curious kid. And although you might think it’s hard to feel symphathy for the ‘speechless’ grandfather, I couldn’t help feeling sorry for him. But for me the way we see the world through the eyes of the curious boy slash inventor slash detective is endearing. Some may not appreciate the way Jonathan Safran Foer told this story of a young boy and a grandfather both trying to coope with a traumatic event and a terrible loss. Various people have recommended Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close to me over the past few months, and I’m glad I finally decided to give it a go. What exactly made it worth it? What’s so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What’s so great about feeling and dreaming?” I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. “I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. 2023 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge.
2017 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge.
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