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Commentary On The Book 'Extremely Loud'

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Mary Manin Morrissey once said, ”Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.” Moving on from a loved one’s death is very hard for characters in the book. Extremely loud and incredibly close is about characters trying to figure out their life with losing certain characters, and dealing with the pain. In the book, pain impacts several people’s life including Oskar with his dad’s death, Thomas with his love Anna, and Oskar’s grandmother with her son and Thomas. First of all, Oskar experiences the …show more content…

“...but I couldn’t finish the sentence,her name wouldn’t come, I tried again, it wouldn’t come,she was locked inside of me, how pathetic, how sad, I took a pen from my pocket and wrote “Anna” on my napkin, it happened again two days later,and then again the following day, she was the only thing I wanted to talk about” (pg 16). Thomas and Anna were in love when she died and Thomas couldn’t live without her. He dealt with the pain of not living with her everyday he was alive. After her death he lost his ability to speak. How Thomas dealt with the pain is different, he just didn’t want to try to live. He chose to distance himself and leave everything behind even the people who cared about him the most. Lastly, there is Oskar’s grandmother. She deals with pain when losing her son and not being able to be with Thomas. “I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing” (pg 174). Thomas and her son were the two most precious things to her. Not being able to say goodbye to her son was hard on her and having Thomas leave her because he didn’t know how to live was very sad. Out of everyone in the book she was the only one trying to move forward, and live

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