Lastly, this book ended with Oskar finding who the key belonged to and learning that the key was completely irrelevant to his dad. Oskar is also close to the grandma in the book. They all used to live in Dresden and there is a lot of history there. Nevertheless, we learn a lot of background information about the grandparents and the grandma’s sister, Anna.

Unfortunately, his grandpa doesn’t really do much with him. However, he at first doesn’t know that he is his grandpa. During this book Oskar also meets his grandpa. He meets many people with the last name Black throughout this book and he gets very close to them. He goes from door to door to everyone with the last name Black in New York City trying to figure out whose key it is. This book is about how Oskar finds a key in an envelope with the last name “Black” written on it. The book Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a very detailed book about a boy named Oskar whose father died in 9/11. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment.Attention: Contains Spoilers Book – Summary

Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr.

What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Summary: A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.

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