Is Safran Foer's Extremely Loud An Incredibly Close

Writing a novel can be quite difficult if you don’t know how you as an author can make a story understandable for everyone, even if you as a reader don’t know anything about the topic. Authors have been struggling with this issue for many years, because there isn’t any guideline that tells them how they can make their story understandable, interesting and looking nice. And those are pretty important to create a good novel. Safran Foer for example, has chosen to use the visual writing theory in his novel ‘Extremely Loud an Incredibly Close’. But why has he chosen to use this theory? Visual writing sounds like you read a book by looking only to images like a comic, and comics are something completely different if you compare them to a novel. So why has Safran Foer chosen to use visual writing in his novel ‘Extremely Loud an Incredibly Close’? That question will be discussed in this essay by looking at the following topics: What is visual writing and what is the purpose of using it?, how is loss and grief portrayed by Safran Foer and by showing how and why the main characters thinking process is described.

Jonathan Safran Foer has chosen to use visual writing in his novel to translate a vision of some potential reality, including settings, events and motifs. Visual writing is the language of the story or novel, because it shows what is …show more content…
Therefore Safran Foer has chosen to use this theory in his novel ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’. Foer wants to create a visual image for the reader because he thinks that is the best way to tell the story about Oskar Schell, because Oskar lives a lot in his own world and otherwise it is difficult to understand him. Foer also has used visual writing, because 9/11 is one of the best documented events in the history of humanity, and he wants to link that back to the use of his visual ‘documented’ ways of