...Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell’s dad dies in 9/11 and Oskar goes on a journey to find the answer to the key he found. He bumps into many different characters along the way that all show various ways of coping with death. Jonathan Safran Foer shows that through death and loss people can get through hard times. Characters deal with grief and loss in their own way in order to balance happiness and sadness. Oskar deals with grief in his own unique kind of way. He thinks you would never get hurt if you just never met anyone. Oskar tells the limo driver that it would be great to make a limo you could just walk through from birth to death but the driver says you would never meet anyone. Oskar says “So?” (5). To get something is to risk losing something. Oskar invents to get his mind off of things. Oskar says “Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing” (12). When Oskar’s dad died he starts inventing a lot more. Oskar also deals with his loss in ways most young children would not even think of, with self harm. Oskar says “Even though I knew I shouldn’t, I gave myself a bruise” (37) Whenever Oskar feels sad, alone, or guilty he bruises himself. He has over forty all over his body. In result of losing Anna, Thomas Sr. can never truly love or speak again. At first he loses the word Anna. Thomas Sr. says “...but I couldn’t finish the sentence, her name wouldn’t come” (16). Sometimes people can’t stand...
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...Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Why I’m not where you are, is a chapter from the novel “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” the main characters is Oskar Schell, his grandpa and his grandma. The chapter is about Oskars’s Grandpa, who loses his ability to speak, but not suddenly, he loses his words one at the time, so therefore he has yes and no tattooed into his palms. And wherever he goes he brings a note book so he can write answers when people ask him questions. When Oscar’s grandpa loses his ability to speak, he also loses his freedom and is trapped inside his own body. When he loses the last word, which is “I”, he also loses his personality. He begins to lose the ability to talk, on the day he loses his wife Anna. Each main character has lost someone they loved, and that is why the chapter and the novel is about how people reacts when they lose loved ones and how they get over it. Oskar has lost his dad in 9/11 and that is grandpa’s son, and the letter grandpa writes is to his unborn son, Thomas, Oskar’s dad, grandpa’s name is also Thomas. So grandpa writes the letter to his unborn child long time before Thomas is born, he writes how he feels when he loses his ability to speak. The themes in the novel are very clear, lose, love, lose of love, loosing yourself and death. The novel is taking place in New York and Manhattan and that is where grandpa meets his new wife, she takes care of him when she find him homeless on the street and that is where grandma askes grandpa...
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...Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 left America and the rest of the Western World in a state of deep shock. Not only did the attacks lead to many human losses, they also had an immense impact on the minds of people all over the world – especially in the US, of course. An incident that has affected so many people will inevitably find its way into literature, but how exactly can we treat such a tragic event in fictional writing? In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, author Jonathan Safran Froer tells the story about the consequences of 9/11 from the perspective of a boy named Oskar, who has lost his father in the attack on the Twin Towers. Oskar is a 9 year old child who struggles to get back on track after the death of his father. His sense of humour plays an important part in the forming of a picture of his personality, more precisely that of an exceptionally bright and knowledgeable child. Oskar makes several witty puns such as “Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake” and “Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?”. Not many 9-year olds are able to exploit the fact that some French and English words sound alike and that it is possible to substitute English curses with French words, and probably even fewer of his age know who Balzac is. Oskar is deeply affected by the loss of his father, which has left him in great distress and deprived him of his old dreams and childish curiosity: ““I want to know...
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...Change is essential for life. Some people prefer to spend their lives doing the same things and avoiding change. However, others think that change might always a good thing. This occurrence is commonly shown on different types of literature. “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer are two genuine examples that exposes changes throughout the book by leading the reader to develop their own ideas of different events that takes place. Gregor Samsa from “Metamorphosis” changes physically in the first part and then mentally, while Oskar Schell from “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” changes emotionally and also he changed his perception of the world. One day Gregor Samsa wakes up as...
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...In the book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran explains Loneliness in the following quote: “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living”. Loneliness often acts as a barrier between an individual and social opportunities. Loneliness is a prevalent obstacle people struggle with on a regular basis, though some experience the sense more frequently than others. If the presence of loneliness is a persistent occurrence, it can be extremely detrimental to the mental and physical health of one's well-being. Loneliness is a universal experience. It is often inaccurately defined as the lack of interpersonal relationships with friends or companions but is actually a complex and usually unpleasant...
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...His first novel was Everything is Illuminated (2002) which “received a lot of praise from major publications and well known authors and won The Guardian's First Book Award and The National Jewish Book Award, and it was named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. It was also adapted to a film starring Elijah Wood in 2005” (Gale). His other novels include Tree of Codes (2016), Here I am (2010) and Eating Animals (2009). Along with Everything is Illuminated, two of his other works were turned into films or documentaries; both Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Eating...
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...Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close takes place about a year after 9/11. September 11 was a tragic day which affected every single person in the United States, if not the world. 9/11 changed airport security dramatically, and everyone who was alive during the attack remembers exactly what they were doing. In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell was sent home early from school on 9/11. His dad, Thomas Schell, was in one of the Twin Towers for a meeting. He had left several voice messages, each one asking if anyone was there. When Oskar got home, the phone started to ring, but he couldn’t bring himself to answer it. This continued to haunt Oskar for the rest of the book. Also, when Oskar was out on his “quest,” he was frightened by tall buildings, elevators, and public transportation such as trains and buses. This was because he was afraid that those places were prime locations for terrorist attacks. In one scene of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar’s adventure leads him to the top of the Empire State Building. At first, it took a lot of convincing on Mr. Black’s part to get Oskar to go to the top. Once he finally relented, the two of them got into the elevator. Oskar squeezed Mr. Black’s hand,...
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...The Reoccurring Theme Of Death Abhi Jain 4th hour Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, written by Jonathan Foer, portrays the struggles of a blossoming boy dealing with his father’s death, a victim of the cataclysmal attacks on September 11th, 2001. To readers this may seem like a novel about the September 11th attacks. However Foer does a meritorious job with the novel, depicting the emotion and confusion going on in nine-year-old Oskar Schell head. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a wonderful example of a novel that deals with the many facets of life after a tragic event. Death is a major reoccurring them in the novel, perceptible not only in Oskar’s loss of his father, but also in his grandparents’ loss of Anna. To anyone, loosing a loved one is a tragic event in someone’s life. Imagine what nine-year-old Oskar is going through when loosing his father, role model, and best friend for no reason. Oskar dynamic emotional changes began to affect the love ones around him. Oskar becomes more violent at home by throwing tantrums, yelling at his mother, and frequently giving he bruises. To cope with his loss, Oskar keeps his mind constantly “inventing,” and embarks on a hunt to find the mystery lock to which his father’s key belongs. When Oskar finally found the lock, he is confused and distraught that there is no longer a way to connect with his father, “But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.” This quote shows...
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...budget of EUR 120 million involving 102 production companies from all over Europe. It now has a catalogue of rights in over 50 features including Academy Award Nominee and Venice Golden Lion winner Before the Rain, box office horror hit Deathwatch; Cannes Directors’ Fortnight opener Princess; Sundance South African hit Son of Man; Jason Biggs starrer GUY X and Dinard winner White Lightnin' as well as 2012 Berlinale Audience Award Winner Parada by Srdjan Dragojevic. The company remains fully owned and managed by producers Mike Downey (European Film Academy Board Member, BAFTA Council member and member of the BAFTA Film Committee) and Sam Taylor ( Board of PACT) backed by its advisory board Billy Elliot/The Hours/The Reader/Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close director Stephen Daldry (Chairman), ex-Creative Artists Agency agent Johanna Baldwin, former Chief Executive of the Guardian Group, James Markwick, merchant banker and internet pioneer Matthew Wilson. Launched in 2000 as part of a public offering on the Frankfurt Neuer Markt, F&ME was the subject of a management buy-out by its principals Sam Taylor and Mike Downey in 2003, and as an independent entity has kept to its annual production targets of producing 2 in house films and between 4 and 6 co-productions a year in the £1.5 - £5 million budget range. The first decade of F&ME’s existence saw it entering into production on 50-odd...
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...“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” Death is an uncontrollable aspect in life, but what about it leaves people to grieve the way they do, and affect the way they live their lives? “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer is a testament of what it means to be human, how people grieve, and how they are affected by their losses. Several characters in the book are going through some sort of grief through loss. Searching for answers that will probably never be found each of them is brought together and deal with their respective issues differently. Most of them spend years of their lives attempting to understand and find closure, but some don’t find any at all. No grief is greater than the other, no matter how miniscule some seem. It’s how they responded to the losses that defined what kind of person they are. Oskar Schell finds his own unique ways of dealing with his grief. Dealing with his issues in his own unique way, Oskar is doing his best to prevent the loss of his father from destroying his entire world. He uses the key he found, his inventions, and even self-harm to help grieve the untimely loss of his father. Using his journey to find what the key opens as way to cope with the grief of losing his father, Oskar struggles to understand why this is happening to him. One would suspect his intelligence would help play a factor in his grieving process, but it is shown that he is still very much a 9 year old kid to the core. Embarking on his journey he...
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...Schizophrenia is a very serious illness that at least 51 million people worldwide are suffering from at this very moment (Chiko). This illness is extremely dangerous and it is possible for anyone to obtain it. Therefore, learning about schizophrenia could become extraordinarily useful. Schizophrenia is a commonly misunderstood mental illness, so knowing the definition, origin, and causes of it could help us understand what it actually is and how to prevent it. The symptoms that occur in schizophrenia are intense. The affected person can have positive, negative, or cognitive symptoms. Once all of this information about schizophrenia is obtained, the treatment for schizophrenia will lurk in the curious parts of your mind, but it is a quite simple...
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...repeatedly and become conditioned to committing violent behavior. Society today tries to make excuses for the things they have messed up in their life, people try to blame their genetics on how they do things, but they do not understand that the experience in their lives contorts their opinions and how they react to things, “In many cases serial killings, the behavior is influenced by past experiences and backgrounds…” (Pandey). People's minds are shifted whenever abuse and past experiences sway them. Flashback is a psychology term used to describe someone experiencing a traumatic event and an object or emotion felt during the event will trigger the feelings and events of that time. For an example, if you were in a traumatizing car crash, the loud of of something being crushed or metal being dropped will trigger and bring back all the emotions from the original event. Children who have been through...
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...| A period of rest, above or under the water, where the animal is not consciously aware of the environment. | Hiding | Concealed under or behind an object larger than the animal. Such as the cave, filter, or palm tree decoration. | Climbing | Ascending upwards using all four claws of the rocky surface to get above water. | Running | Rapidly traveling on foot on a stable surface by means of getting from point A to point B. | Walking | Slow travel on foot on a stable surface by means of getting from point A to point B. | Alert | Closely watching and being extremely conscious of the environment and surroundings. Usually after seeing or hearing an unusual being. | Floating | Hovering with shell and head protruding from the water, while the bottom of the shell and claws are underwater. | Clawing | To touch the rock roughly and continue to move claws back and forth. | Creeping | Paranoid, walking incredibly slowly across surfaces under or above water. | Chewing | Grinding food (shrimp, krill, and sticks) with teeth inside of mouth. | Swallowing | Taking food into throat and sliding it downwards. | Defecating | To void feces from the bowels through the bottom. | Respiration | Breathing through lungs after the animal has been out of the...
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...Writer’s Reflection When I heard the assignment for Inquiry Two, I was quite excited. I had heard of “Waiting For Superman,” but had never really had the chance to watch it. The topic of it is something that I am extremely passionate about and was eager to learn more about. So I happily watched the documentary and quickly whipped out a first draft (rough rough draft) without even really having to think about it- the words just poured out. However, when writing my real rough draft, I tried to focus a bit more on the rhetorical appeals. My revision process on Inquiry Two was much more rigorous than my typical revision process. At my meeting with Bridget for my conference on my rough draft of Inquiry 2, she had me read my paper aloud. Reading it out loud made me realize how focused the paper really was on my thoughts and my opinions on the topic of the documentary. There was way too much emphasis on my thoughts on the public school systems of America, and not nearly enough rhetorical analysis of the documentary. I wrote what felt like millions of drafts and printed them all out and scribbled all over them. I also used Bridget as resource and took her ideas and comments into considering my final draft. Overall, I tried to focus the paper much more on a rhetorical analysis of the film instead of my own opinions on the issue (those can come in Inquiry Three!). Waiting for “Superman” Waiting for “Superman” examines one of the most heated debates in today’s political society:...
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...lethal damages. Ten years later, he finds a home at a failing dojo, only to be caught up in a string of murders related to an opium ring. His commitment to never taking a life is put to the test as the people he’s come to care about are threatened by figures from his past. 3. Dumb and Dumber (1994)-Peter Farelly, Bobby Farelly Classification: Comedy Appeal: Emotional Scene: A pair of intellectually challenged friends named Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) set out on a cross country trip return a briefcase full of money to its rightful owner. Their adventure filled with goofiness and dumbness made the viewer’s laugh their guts out making the movie one of the top comedy films of all times. 4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2012)- Stephen Daldry Classification: Light Drama/ Adventure Appeal: Emotional Scene: A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the...
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