Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close By Jonathan Safran Foer

In the book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer, a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell experiences the tragic death of his father at a young age. Although his father died on September 11th, Oskar embarked on a mission to find a hidden message that he believed his father left him. Throughout this book, the movie, “The Blind Side” and in my own life the characters seek a way to find comfort in their lives and overcome challenges. In the Novel, Oskar experiences many hardships but is able to deal with them by comforting himself. A short while after his father’s death, Oskar came across a blue vase in his father’s closet which contained an envelope with a key inside of it. On the envelope Oskar discovered that the word “Black” was written on it.

Before his father passed away, he would constantly give Oskar puzzles and missions in New York City that he needed to figure out. Oskar was always challenged by his father so when he came across this envelope, Oskar truly wanted to believe that this was another mission that would lead him to the answers that he was looking for. Along the way however, Oskar gained things much more valuable. On his journey he met many different people. Specifically, Oskar found an old man named Mr. Black that lived in the same apartment building as him. Mr. Black and Oskar went on journeys together meeting all of the Blacks in the phone book in each borough. Along the way he overcame both his fear of public transportation by traveling outside Manhattan and his fear of tall buildings by going to the top of