Super-duper Earsplitting and Indubitably Adjacent (that's what we'd have called it) is more than just "that September 11th novel." It's about grief in general, and coping with any sort of tragedy. He sets out on a quest to find the lock, hoping to reach some sort of closure over the tragic loss of his father. Two years after his father dies, nine-year-old Oskar Schell finds a key in his Dad's closet. It's about a boy trying to make sense of his father's death on September 11. It was published in 2005 when Foer was only twenty-eight years old. The unofficial eighth stage is making art, whether it be movies like United 93 or World Trade Center, or literature like Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.Įxtremely Loud and Incredibly Close is the extremely anticipated follow-up novel to Jonathan Safran Foer's incredibly well-received first novel, Everything is Illuminated. (We haven't Shmooped that one… yet.)Īfter September 11, 2001, the citizens of New York and entire United States had to go through the seven stages of grief together. And in First Step 2 Forever, Justin Bieber wrote about the insufferable pain and tragedy that he… well, that his music has inflicted upon the world. Elie Wiesel told his harrowing tale of surviving the Holocaust in Night.
Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Frontafter serving in World War I. Writing has always been a way for authors to cope with tragedy. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Introduction
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