This week, we wrote our first in-class essays in response to the books we chose for our independent reading project. I read "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer. I don't know if anybody else in our grade has read it, but it is definitely one of my favorite books and I would recommend for everybody to read it. This book is really easy to relate to, even if the events that happened are tragic. The main character, Oskar Schell, has lost his father in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. His grandfather, Thomas Schell, lost the love of his life during the Dresden Bombings during World War II. The quotes in this book are very beautiful, such as, "It's the tragedy of loving, we can't love something more than something we miss." This book definitely gives you a new perspective on different aspects of life, specifically when it comes to the loss of a loved one. This book definitely showed an accurate example of how an event in someone's life can significantly alter or change a person's perception on life.
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