Chapter Four & Five "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

Chapter four allows another narrator to come into "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" other than Oskar. It is a letter from his grandmother, who he is very close with and relies on daily for support through their conversations using the walkie talkies. The way she writes/narrates is different than the way Oskar does. Her ideas are rather linear and go from one to another with relation to the previous statement. However, Oskar's ideas tend to bounce around, for instance the idea about the teakettle and talking anus's in the first chapter we read. A majority of these characters, Oskar, Grandma and Grandpa, all keep/want letters. Each story that is told by these characters differ and we get to see it from different perspectives. I think this book has a large focus on how people see and experience things that happen to them in life.

Chapter five starts off with a conversation between Oskar and his father, who asks seemingly random questions just like Oskar does throughout the chapters he narrates. He decides in this chapter to go through the list of names that end with Black just like the envelope holding the key that he found in his dad's closet. He obsessively follows the list alphabetically from A to Z without fault. It shows how emotional this situation is in fact making Oskar when the first man on the list is very hostile towards him. Oskar breaks down and continues on, so desperate to find the connection between the last name and his father, Tomas. I think this chapter allows us to see the emotional side of Oskar.

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