![]() The pursuit is a way of holding on to his father, of keeping the lines of communication open, of refusing to close the door. The word “Black” is written on the envelope, so Oskar runs all over New York looking for people with that name. A year later, rummaging through Thomas’s things, Oskar finds an envelope containing a key, which he assumes will unlock a box or something that will reveal a new aspect of his father to him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel is about a nine-year-old boy, Oskar Schell, who has lost his father, Thomas, in a collapsing tower on September 11, 2001. “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” is an example of what happens when an author’s fluent literary conceits give way to the sight of all-too-human people moving and talking in the real-world spaces of a movie.
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