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Extremely Loud and Incredibly close

Virginia MOTTURA

Created on March 26, 2025

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Transcript

Extremely Loud and Incredibly close

Jonathan Safran Foer

THEMES

CHARACTERS

TEXT ANALYSIS

PLOT

EDUCAZIONE CIVICA

Identity and belonging

Loss and grief

Trauma healing

  • 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

Thomas Schell Jr

Thomas Schell Sr

Oskar Schell

Grandma

W. Black

Mr Black

The effects of war on children in Gaza
  • 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