Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.What was a pretty blue vase doing way up there? I couldn’t reach it, obviously, so I moved over the chair with the tuxedo still on it, and then I went to my room to get the Collected Shakespeare set that Grandma bought for me when she found out that I was going to be Yorick, and I brought those over, four tragedies at a time, until I had a stack that was tall enough.How does the narration shape Oskar’s characterization in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.It took me nine hours to make, and I had thought about giving it to Sonny, the homeless person who I sometimes see standing outside the Alliance Française, because he puts me in heavy boots, or maybe to Lindy, the neat old woman who volunteers to give tours at the Museum of Natural History, so I could be something special to her, or even just to someone in a wheelchair. But instead I gave it to Mom. She said it was the best gift she’d ever received. Which word from this excerpt most reveals the tone?
Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.“I didn’t do it!” I hollered, but they didn’t even hear me, because they were playing music too loud and cracking up too much. I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up. Even though I knew I shouldn’t, I gave myself a bruise.Which of these statements best describes the ambiguity in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.There was a lot of stuff that made me panicky, like suspension bridges, germs, airplanes, fireworks… A lot of the time I’d get that feeling like I was in the middle of a huge black ocean, or in deep space, but not in the fascinating way.How does the narration affect Oskar’s credibility in this excerpt?
Which excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close reveals a childish tone?
Which line from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close reveals a despondent tone?
Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.“It’s all electronic these days. Key pads. Thumbprint recognition.” “That’s so awesome.” “I like keys.” I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots. “Well, if people like me are a dying breed, then what’s going to happen to your business?” “We’ll become specialized,” he said, “like a typewriter shop. We’re useful now, but soon we’ll be interesting.” “Maybe you need a new business.” “I like this business.”How does the narration shape Oskar’s characterization in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.The next morning I told Mom that I couldn’t go to school, because I was too sick. It was the first lie that I had to tell. She put her hand on my forehead and said, “You do feel a bit hot.” I said, “I took my temperature and it’s one hundred point seven degrees.” That was the second lie. She turned around and asked me to zip up the back of her dress which she could have done herself, but she knew that I loved to do it.What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place.... And when something really terrible happened—like a nuclear bomb, or at least a biological weapons attack—an extremely loud siren would go off, telling everyone to get to Central Park to put sandbags around the reservoir.What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?
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