He stopped speaking and started writing one-line sentences on pieces of paper to communicate with others. Thomas, his grandfather, was in love with Anna who died during the bombing of Dresden. The book is also about Oskar’s grandparents. After some research into its history, he decides to visit every person whose last name is Black in New York City in order find out where this key fits. One night while looking through boxes in his closet for a vase he dropped, Oskar finds an envelope labeled “Black” containing a key inside. To cope with all of these feelings, Oskar invents things like “The Key Project” as a way to deal with stress. His mother has started seeing another man named Ron, which makes Oskar angry because she seems to be moving on with her life without him. Now that Oskar is older, he realizes how much pain this caused him and wants answers about what really happened to his father that day. They never recovered his body and buried an empty casket at his funeral. The fifth time was after the towers had fallen, so Oskar didn’t answer because he thought something bad had happened to his dad. On the day of the attacks, Oskar’s dad called five times and left messages on their answering machine. He has been sad ever since, but he’s hiding it from everyone. Oskar Schell is a nine-year-old boy who lost his father in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 1-Page Summary of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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