Literature 7

Respond to each of the following prompts. Both responses should contain approximately 75-150 words.

A. The book has been described as a story about a boy who loses his Dad on 9/11. But is it really about 9/11?

B. Does Jonathan Safran Foer accurately capture the voice of nine- year-old Oskar, or does Oskar sound more like the twenty-eight-year- old author?

C. Why does the book have three different narrators? Why does Oskar write in a more "traditional" style, while his Grandparents write letters? How do the different styles come together to tell a complete story? (Additionally, does Foer create a new "contemporary" style, do you think? Or is this still post-modernist?