Outside Reading

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
By: Jonathan Safran (Pages. 1-85)

This book is about a little boy, Oskar, who is going through some tough times since he lost his dad in 9/11. His mother has been seeing another man and Oskar feels as though his mom is forgetting his dad and replacing him. Oskar tends to think a lot, and will imagine things that could happen. He has a lot of free time on his hands and he looks at things in a very different way. He also has a last memory of his father that his grandmother and mom do not know about. On September 11th his dad was making calls to the house saying that he was okay and Oskar heard them but never told his mom about them, and he kept the answering machine and bought a new one for their apartment so he still has the answering machine in his closet with his dads messages on them. He listens to them when he is missing his father. One day when Oskar was going through his dads things he found a envelope with a key inside it. Oskar is determined to find out where the key goes to.