I was sceptical at first when I began reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, because I always judge books by their covers, even though I really shouldn’t. I have also found that as I got older I’ve had less and less time to read during the day, so finding time to be able to sit down and read the entire book book was a little bit of a hassle. While I started reading this book I slowly fell in love with it, because It just gelled with me really easily. I figured out the genre as teen fiction due to the word choice and vocabulary used throughout the book, not super easy, but just hard enough to make you really think. I decided to read this book because of quite a few people recommending it to me, and I have a project on it, so It seemed
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When we first meet Oskar he is this little innocent, caring boy with no care in the world. He is free flowing and never lets things bring him down. However, as the story starts to pan out he see the true side of him. In reality, Oskar is a boy with a heart too big for his body and a mind much older than himself. He creates his own adventures and problems, some of which will keep him down the entire story. While his imagination is great, it makes him think of terrible things that bring him down. We see this happen in the middle of the book: Then she started to cry tears. I thought, I’m the one who’s supposed to be crying. “Don’t cry,” I told her. “Why not?” she asked. “Because,” I told her. “Because what?” hhhhhhhhhhggggShe asked. Since I didn’t know why she was crying, I couldn’t think of a reason (Foer 96) I believe this shows how Oskar handles situations based on how he is. Being a kid, he really doesn’t know how to confront issues like this, so when he encounters them, he gets stuck. This shows Oskar’s characterization to be spot on with how he should be. His characterization really made me feel like he could be a real boy, because at his age I was the same way.
To be frank, I had a blast reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, it has become one
When we first meet Oskar he is this little innocent, caring boy with no care in the world. He is free flowing and never lets things bring him down. However, as the story starts to pan out he see the true side of him. In reality, Oskar is a boy with a heart too big for his body and a mind much older than himself. He creates his own adventures and problems, some of which will keep him down the entire story. While his imagination is great, it makes him think of terrible things that bring him down. We see this happen in the middle of the book: Then she started to cry tears. I thought, I’m the one who’s supposed to be crying. “Don’t cry,” I told her. “Why not?” she asked. “Because,” I told her. “Because what?” hhhhhhhhhhggggShe asked. Since I didn’t know why she was crying, I couldn’t think of a reason (Foer 96) I believe this shows how Oskar handles situations based on how he is. Being a kid, he really doesn’t know how to confront issues like this, so when he encounters them, he gets stuck. This shows Oskar’s characterization to be spot on with how he should be. His characterization really made me feel like he could be a real boy, because at his age I was the same way.
To be frank, I had a blast reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, it has become one