Comparing Foster's Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Many of the concepts from Foster’s How to Read Literature Like A Professor are shown throughout Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Chapter One of Foster’s book discusses the common elements of a mission or a quest; the journey will most likely consist these five things: a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials en route, and a real reason to go there. This applies to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which demonstrates all of these five elements. The main character, Oskar, is the quester, and his “place to go” is through the five boroughs of New York. His reason to go on this journey is to find the place where the mysterious key fits. Normally, people wouldn’t notice if an item is slightly shifted, but Oskar is special and happened to notice that the vase in his Father's room looked a little misplaced. Oscar went to see what was inside the vase but accidentally hit it off the ledge and it broke, that’s when the envelope containing the key appeared.Oskar’s goal is clear: he must find the answer to the mysterious key that his dad put in an envelope labeled “Black,” and hopes it will reveal some

He starts by feeling the softness of an object but unknowingly gets carried away and doesn't realize his true strength, so he continues to touch it aggressively and in most cases he kills it. This is best illustrated when Lennie starts petting the puppy in the barn, but pets it for too long and ends up killing it. The scene that leads up to the death of Curley’s wife also starts off with the innocent act of touching her hair,where “Lennie’s big fingers fell to stroking her hair,” but quickly escalates to an act of violence, leaving Curley’s wife “still, for Lennie had broken her neck” (Steinbeck