Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close Analysis

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There are over 7 billion people living and breathing on planet Earth who look, act, think, and live differently from those around them. Each person has their own likes, dislikes, values, passions, goals, ways to communicate with others and various methods of understanding the chaos that is this world. One way is through storytelling. Storytelling and connecting with others comes in many different forms, whether it be through art, music, sports, writing, reading, or other various activities. However, in Jonathan Foer’s novel, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, non-traditional storytelling techniques and unconventional ways of communicating with others are used to find meaning out of a world filled with unclear rules, which is represented by the actions of the main characters, Oskar Schell, Thomas Schell Jr., and Thomas Schell Sr. Oskar Schell is a main character in, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” who uses visual representations and the act of inventing in order to communicate with others and make sense of his world, which is full of inconsistencies and incomprehensible events. One way that Oskar is able to make sense out of what occurs around him is through pictures. When describing the process that Oskar uses to gather his pictures, he said,
“I printed out some of the pictures I found—a shark attacking a girl, someone walking on a tightrope between the Twin Towers, that actress getting a blowjob from her normal boyfriend, a soldier getting his head cut off in Iraq, the place on the wall where a famous stolen painting used to hang—and I put them in Stuff That Happened to Me, my scrap-book of everything
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One way that Thomas Sr. would communicate with others in through writing letters to them. In one of his letters, Thomas Sr.