grammar are some of the many skills that I worked on during this semester. I attended the Writing Center as often as I could; I also asked questions during office hours. I worked on perfecting these skills in my other classes as well by reading out loud. By exploring these different options my essay grades improved 15 points. Hopefully my portfolio and future papers reflects the time and practice I’ve put into my writing. English 1102 Professor Grant April 13‚ 2013 A
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Journal 1 Ashlyn MacDonald April 28th‚ 2015 Text to text In the novel “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer‚ Oskar is trying to find out which lock fits the key that he found in his father’s closet. Something similar happens in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time” by Mark Haddon. The main character in the curious incident was trying to find out who killed the neighbors dog. These two stories are similar because both main characters in the books are both searching
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For my book report I read the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. This book was published by Haughton Mifflin in 2005. The novel takes place mostly in New York City‚ shortly after terrorists destroy the Twin Towers in 2001. However‚ the time switches from the narrator’s present to the late 1940s when his grandparents are newlyweds and even farther back to when they are teenagers in Germany. In the present time‚ Oskar lives in an apartment building. Across the street
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Extremely Loud Incredibly Close Oskar Schell‚ who is the main character in “Extremely Loud Incredibly Close”‚ is a 9-year old boy. He has a very good imagination and is very creative. He talks about himself as an atheist‚ a scientist‚ a pacifist and an adventurer. He is also a very determined and strong-willed boy. First we get an impression of a happy and joyful kid‚ but after his father dies in the attack on the World Trade Center‚ he becomes very unhappy and almost depressed. The funny thing
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His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father‚ who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter‚ a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building‚ and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately‚ Oskar ends his journey where it began‚ at his father’s grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother’s apartment. Oskar reminisces about his father and the games
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 1) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close encourages us to closely examine the time we have in our lives. We never know when the last time we will be seeing someone will be‚ we must be responsible with how we spend our time and we are responsible for the way we treat people. The message that is conveyed to me an abundance of times is to not take advantage of the time you have‚ because it flies. This is represented on the pages with red ink (pages 208-216). The
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sudden or unexpected. Everyone experiences it at least once throughout a lifetime. In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer‚ the reader meets several characters that lose people very close to them. Each person has a certain way of dealing with the death‚ but overall his or her grief is out of love. These two emotions are triggered by one another. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close displays few characters that show any sign of moving on with their lives. Grief takes over
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Curiosity and Adventure are two words I feel best represent Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close‚ a fictional book written by Jonathan Safran Foer set in New York City after 9/11 around 2003. The story involves a nine year old named Oskar Schell‚ a self-proclaimed future inventor and explorer. Oskar is our narrator throughout the story who tells us the events in his life in the first person point of view. Oskar‚ being the protagonist and focal point of the story‚ shows us the struggle of losing someone
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Journal 2: "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" Trachimbrod in 1791 is the place where Jonathan‚ alex’s friend‚ has traced his parents roots. One day‚ a wagon plunges into the Brod river‚ which runs through the town. The W twins‚ Hannah and Chana‚ are first to arrive at the scene. They jumped into the river‚ shocked by the amount of strange objects rising from the wreckage. This place is divided into two sections: the "Jewish Quarter and the Human Three-Quarters". But both sections have Jews
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Chapter 2 This chapter introduces one of the primary motifs of Into the Wild‚ that of documents. Because the book’s subject‚ Christopher McCandless‚ has died before author Jon Krakauer can meet him‚ Krakauer must rely on the testimony of the people McCandless encountered in order to stitch together the story of the young man’s journey — and especially on the documents McCandless left behind. The first of these documents is McCandless’s S.O.S. note. Others will include his journals‚ the notes he
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