extremely loud and incredibly close book

In the upcoming section, I am going to explain the aim of this report. If the author had not used photographs in his novel, it would have been more difficult for the reader to relate to Oskar's world, his thoughts and his feelings.

The photographs also point out that Oskar is very curious and has wide interests, especially in science and in history. Depending on the model, he either lets them their freedom because he knows about the truthfulness of a picture or he asks them several questions about them, in order to establish a relationship between model and photographer.

However, they also show that Oskar is a very talented photographer because he respects the wishes of his models. Through the photographs he took or printed out from the internet, it becomes clear that Oskar could not get over his beloved father's death, since nearly all of the pictures have something to do with him. To gain enough knowledge about photography, I skimmed through the book of Susan Sonntag 'On Photography' and an applicable newspaper article composed by Jim Richardson about 'The View from the Back'.Īfter skimming Sontag's book, I read the novel of Safran again and analyzed the photographs with the help of my existing analyzation skills learned in school and the newly acquired knowledge from the books for my research on photography.Īs a result of this analysis, one can say that the chosen analyzed photographs in the scrapbook 'Stuff That Happened to Me' let to a broader knowledge about Oskar. One of my major upcoming questions was if he can escape his difficult past through photo graphing or if it worsens his fragile condition. and underline Oskar's emotional instability after his father's death. Moreover, I wanted to prove that most of the chosen photographs which appear in the protagonist's scrapbook, whether they are taken by himself or by others, are connected to Thomas Schell Jr. The basic aim of this analysis was to achieve a deeper look into Oskar's inside, so that I would gain more information about his character than the written pages in Foer's novel offers. Oskar is trying to find out what the left key is for and he is doing that by visiting as many people as he can, with the means of interviewing and photo graphing them. The protagonist and simultaneously narrator of the novel Oskar Shell is a nine year old boy who is on a journey to find out the purpose of a key from his deceased father who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The photographs that will be analyzed have been taken out of the novel 'Extremely loud and incredibly close', written by Jonathan Safran Foer and became an international bestseller. In this resume, the whole report will be summarized. Photographs of Characters Oskar Superlicially Knows Photographs of Characters Oskar Admiresĥ.

Extremely loud and incredibly close book