Death: The Impact It Can Have.
Throughout the course of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer and The Tiger’s Wife, by Tea Obreht the theme of mortality is used to show the significant impact death has on those left behind. The novel of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is an individual story of how an 11 year old boy deals with the shocking death of his father on 9-11. In The Tiger's Wife Natalia, the main character, deals with the many emotions that comes with the death of someone near you. Natalia had just lost her grandfather, and through the course of the novel, she goes through what he taught her, and how her death impacted her. These books show how death has the ability to cause conflict through emotional differences, strain a relationship, or make it stronger, and over the course of both books they depict individual stories of how much of an impact death has on those left behind. …show more content…
The situation was no different in Extremely Loud and Extremely Close, and The Tiger’s Wife. During the story of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a point in the book came when Oskar and his mother’s relationship was strained. Oskar is very different from most people, especially his mother. The strained relationship was not helped by the fact of how close of a relationship Oskar had build with his father. Thomas understood Oskar, and knew how to control and please him. One night, the stress and sorrow
Throughout the course of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer and The Tiger’s Wife, by Tea Obreht the theme of mortality is used to show the significant impact death has on those left behind. The novel of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is an individual story of how an 11 year old boy deals with the shocking death of his father on 9-11. In The Tiger's Wife Natalia, the main character, deals with the many emotions that comes with the death of someone near you. Natalia had just lost her grandfather, and through the course of the novel, she goes through what he taught her, and how her death impacted her. These books show how death has the ability to cause conflict through emotional differences, strain a relationship, or make it stronger, and over the course of both books they depict individual stories of how much of an impact death has on those left behind. …show more content…
The situation was no different in Extremely Loud and Extremely Close, and The Tiger’s Wife. During the story of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a point in the book came when Oskar and his mother’s relationship was strained. Oskar is very different from most people, especially his mother. The strained relationship was not helped by the fact of how close of a relationship Oskar had build with his father. Thomas understood Oskar, and knew how to control and please him. One night, the stress and sorrow