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  2. A short summary of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

  3. Chapter 1. Oskar Schell is a nine-year-old boy grieving the loss of his Dad, Thomas Schell, who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Oskar is a very precocious boy: he’s extremely intelligent and curious, making up all sorts of esoteric inventions, but he also is scared and traumatized.

  4. Oskar Schell is a hyper- intelligent, original 9-year-old boy who constantly wonders about the world around him. However, Oskar also carries guilt, anxiety, and self-harming tendencies. He uses a tambourine to cope with his negative feelings, which have intensified since his father’s death during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

  5. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Summary. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer 's ambitious second novel (after Everything is Illuminated ), follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he navigates New York City on a quest to unlock the secrets of a mysterious key and its connection to his father, who died in the collapse of ...

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  6. Overview. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a realistic fiction novel written by Jonathan Safran Foer and based on the September 11 terrorist attacks that occurred in New York City in 2001. The novel was originally published in 2005.

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