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Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud and Incredibly close

PLOT

EDUCAZIONE CIVICA

CHARACTERS

THEMES

TEXT ANALYSIS

Identity and belonging

Trauma healing

Loss and grief

  • The key
  • The quest begins
  • The renter
  • Grandmother's story
  • The final clue
  • Closure and connection

Who is Jonathan Safran Foer?

  • Born in Washington D.C. in 1977 in a Jewish family
  • Studied at Princeton University, mentored by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Experimental writing
  • Emotional depth , philosophical questions
  • Intrest in grief
  • Discusses prominent issues (ex. Climate change/ ethical food consumption

Mr Black

W. Black

Grandma

Thomas Schell Sr

Thomas Schell Jr

Oskar Schell

  • Physical and psychological trauma--> PTSD, anxiety, depression
  • Disruption of education--> destruction of schools
  • Displacement and loss of home--> long term emotional distress
  • Grief, fear, isolation--> uncertainty about the future
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