Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer about a boy whose father died in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. After finding in a vase belonging to his father a key with the name "Black" written on it, nine-year-old Oskar goes on a quest to find the key's owner, meeting people in New York City with the last name of "Black." In the end, Oskar returns to the key to someone unrelated to his father. The novel deals with themes of trauma, loss and redemption.
In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Oskar is a precocious intelligent and eccentric boy who goes on an adventure in the boroughs of New York City One day Oskar comes across a key that is left behind by his father It is tucked away in an envelope labeled Black Though hardly a smoking gun of any sort Oskar finds in this discovery just the sort of diversion he needs to sustain him in his time of loss to fill the void left by the loss of his father I decided I would meet every person i