(Smith 79) This implies that, at that time, putting a message across meant showing it and vice-versa. In the analysis of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, it is possible to apply McCloud’s “ show and tell.” In the book, McCloud reflects about years past, in grade school, when showing and telling were concepts that were virtually interchangeable. (Foer 16-33) In my opinion, a central theme highlighted by Foer, in the novel is trauma, particularly emotional trauma. The events of the novel are set in motion with the death of Oskar’s father in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the world trade center, where he was having a meeting. Themes in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Safran Foer Additional insight is provided through the letters of Oskar’s grandfather to his father and Oskar’s grandmother’s letters to him.
The age of the boy introduces the irony in the story from the very beginning. The story is told through the perspective of Oskar Schell, a remarkably perceptive, sensitive, and intelligent 9-year-old boy. However, it's worth noting that the novel has more humorous and lighthearted moments than the movie version does.There are many issues, themes, and underlying meanings in Safran Foer’s novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The novel includes rare cursing (a few uses of "f-k," one "sons of bitches") and some sexual content, including children's playground talk about "blow jobs," "hand jobs," and private parts, and more adult scenes where a young couple, and then an older couple, make love. Oskar also has violent fantasies of hurting people who make him feel small and misunderstood. These accounts of violence are graphic and sorrowful. There are also passages from an interview with a man who watched his daughter die after the bombing of Hiroshima. Though most of the novel focuses on Oskar's quest for a lock he thinks will reveal hidden details about his beloved father, the book also digs into various characters' memories of 9/11, as well as the Dresden bombing during World War II, which shaped the lives of Oskar's grandparents. In fact, in the film adaptation of the novel, Oskar tells another character that he was tested for Asperger's syndrome but nothing "definitive" was determined. Oskar is a social misfit who exhibits repetitive behaviors that have led some readers to think he's on the autism spectrum. Most especially, this is the story of Oskar Schell, a precocious 9-year-old with highly advanced scientific curiosity but a child's limited ability to process loss. Parents need to know that Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer ( Everything Is Illuminated), describes the grieving process of a family that's lost a loved one in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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