Primary Source Analysis: Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Primary source analysis by Charalambos Poulikidis
Main topis is “9/11”
Primary Source Analysis of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer
The book “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” was writer by Jonathan Safran Foer. He is a young author, born in 1977, Washington, D.C. Foer graduated from Princeton in 1999 with a degree in Philosophy and he is best known for his two novels, the “Everything Is Illuminated”, which took National Jewish Book and Guardian First Book Award, and the “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”. Now he lives in Brooklyn of New York in United States of America. The second known novel (Extremely loud And Incredibly Close), was written on 2005. The book speaks about a nine year old child, Oscar …show more content…
Somebody is stabbed in business class-and um, I think there's mace-that we cant breathe-I don't know I think we're getting hijacked. A.A. Oper. Center: "Which flight are you on? Betty Ong: Flight 12 (Betty makes a mistake, but corrects herself later) A.A. Oper. Center: And what seat are you in? (Brief Silence) A.A. Oper. Center: Ma'am are you there? Betty Ong: Yes. A.A. Oper. Center: What, what, what seat are you in? (Brief Silence) A.A. Oper. Center: Ma'am, what seat are you in? Betty Ong: Well, we just left Boston, we're up in the air. We're supposed to go to L.A., and the cockpit's not answering their phone.
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First one is ACLU foundation and the second is American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU’s mission is (according to their history brief on their site) "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." This ad shows now president Obama morphing into previous president of United States of America, George W. Bush, and with tries with this method, to urge Obama not to act like Bush. The meaning of the picture is that Bush’s mistakes after 9/11, for example, somehow he could brain washed a big amount of Americans citizens, and made them to believe that for all the terrorists’ attacks, for all the bombings and for the World Trade Center tragedy, Iraqi and Afghan and generally Arab civilians were responsible. He added another one stereotype in worlds mind. And for that reason, many people say that he find the chance to start a war to Iraq, because of the rich oil. Obama promised that he is going to change Bush policies and restore the American values, justice and due process. The whole meaning of the advertisement, addressed to United States of America citizens to be suspicious about promises that can’t be kept and simultaneously to hope for a change that can retrieve or even change the value of the name of the United States of America, because, outside of United States, the hearing of “United
Main topis is “9/11”
Primary Source Analysis of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer
The book “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” was writer by Jonathan Safran Foer. He is a young author, born in 1977, Washington, D.C. Foer graduated from Princeton in 1999 with a degree in Philosophy and he is best known for his two novels, the “Everything Is Illuminated”, which took National Jewish Book and Guardian First Book Award, and the “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”. Now he lives in Brooklyn of New York in United States of America. The second known novel (Extremely loud And Incredibly Close), was written on 2005. The book speaks about a nine year old child, Oscar …show more content…
Somebody is stabbed in business class-and um, I think there's mace-that we cant breathe-I don't know I think we're getting hijacked. A.A. Oper. Center: "Which flight are you on? Betty Ong: Flight 12 (Betty makes a mistake, but corrects herself later) A.A. Oper. Center: And what seat are you in? (Brief Silence) A.A. Oper. Center: Ma'am are you there? Betty Ong: Yes. A.A. Oper. Center: What, what, what seat are you in? (Brief Silence) A.A. Oper. Center: Ma'am, what seat are you in? Betty Ong: Well, we just left Boston, we're up in the air. We're supposed to go to L.A., and the cockpit's not answering their phone.
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First one is ACLU foundation and the second is American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU’s mission is (according to their history brief on their site) "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." This ad shows now president Obama morphing into previous president of United States of America, George W. Bush, and with tries with this method, to urge Obama not to act like Bush. The meaning of the picture is that Bush’s mistakes after 9/11, for example, somehow he could brain washed a big amount of Americans citizens, and made them to believe that for all the terrorists’ attacks, for all the bombings and for the World Trade Center tragedy, Iraqi and Afghan and generally Arab civilians were responsible. He added another one stereotype in worlds mind. And for that reason, many people say that he find the chance to start a war to Iraq, because of the rich oil. Obama promised that he is going to change Bush policies and restore the American values, justice and due process. The whole meaning of the advertisement, addressed to United States of America citizens to be suspicious about promises that can’t be kept and simultaneously to hope for a change that can retrieve or even change the value of the name of the United States of America, because, outside of United States, the hearing of “United