Extremely Quiet & Incredibly Distant?
“My insides don’t match up with my outsides.” Absence. For the past two weeks, our ASTU class has focused on Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. This novel illustrates the theme of absence through personal loss and trauma from three different perspectives. Oskar Schell attempts to come to peace with the recent death of his dad and his grandparents as well, walk down memory lane and reminisce, triggered by the tragedy of 9/11 and the loss of their son. To quickly introduce my point of view, I read…read more