Jonathan Safran Foer Use Metaphors In Extremely Loud And Extremely Close

When reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer, a reader can gain a deeper insight into how Oskar truly feels about his father’s death if they pay attention to the use of metaphors throughout the book. An example being when Oskar thinks back to the time him and his Dad talked about how relatively insignificant they were compared to the whole population. His dad had asked, “Well what would happen if a plane dropped you in the middle of the Sahara Desert and you picked up a single grain of sand with tweezers and moved it one millimeter?” (Foer 86). Oskar then replied,”Which would mean I moved a grain of sand?” (Foer 86). His dad then explains,”If you hadn’t done it, human history would have been one way,”(Foer 86)