The major characters in Extremely loud and Incredibly close suffer from great loss and tries cope with it by finding connection. Oskar Schell lost his father in 911 which had an big impact him because he was so close to him. He holds on to the messages his dad left just before he dies and hides it from his mother. “I wrapped up the old phone in the scarf that grandma wasn’t able to finish because of privacy and I put that in a grocery bag, and I put that in a box, and I put in another box, and I put that under a bunch of my stuff in my closet.”(Foer, 68). Oskar discover a key hidden in the blue vase and thinks by finding out what it means he’s getting closer to his dad. “Every time I left the apartment to go searching for the lock, I became
