Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close Book Report

Extremely loud and incredibly close is a book written by Jonathan Safran Foer. The book is about a boy named Oskar schell. He is a young and very precocious boy. He is very intelligent and his brain works faster than most of the kids in his age. Even though Oskar seems like a boy full of liveliness, he is actually very insecure and fragile. He is a boy who is afraid of loosing the ones he love. This book is about his journey to find out the purpose of a key that he found in his dad's closet. What Oskar is looking for is a closure. This is not a fantasy story , infact Oskar is a realistic person. He never thinks that this key might bring his dad back to life but all he is hoping is to a find an explanation to make this sick world make sense
Even if they did, they always end up fighting. He doesn't like to be around people, it makes him so uncomfortable. He had been teased by a lot of other kids and he also imagines some clever comebacks but he never says them. But later on in his journey he comes out of his shell. Oskar is a modern hero, according to https://prezi.com/fc_mpzahgkar/traditional-hero-vs-modern-hero/, a modern hero is a good person where integrity, honor, honesty, intelligence, wisdom, action, morality and love work in harmony to balance the person on their path of higher learning. They might not always do the right thing, but they are truthful beings trying to help one
He stopped going to school regularly and makes a habit of lying to the people he cared about. He gives himself a bruise when he is sad. As he continued on his journey he had to face a lot of challenges. He had to overcome his fear of using public transportation and interacting with new people. Through all of his tasks he faced he tried to be mature and strong. Oskar's way back is to find a way to move on with his life without his father. The key he found was the only connection left that he had with his father. But now that he found where it actually belongs he need to find another way to move on. “With writing, we have second chances.” Oskar Schell .

For Oskar, Returning with the Elixir is when he find his dad's final message under a swing in a park that they go together. With the words in the message, he is finally able to move on and also learn how to live without his father. “The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.” (Foer, everything is