Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

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and distinctively. Grief comes from a great degree of traumatic experience, When Oskar's dad Thomas Schell disappears Oskar and his mom filled a suitcase with posters with Thomas' picture on them and took the them downtown that evening, declining to acknowledge that he was really dead. Setting up the posters gave Oskar and his mom a little faith that Thomas may even now be alive and that this whole thing was a misunderstanding. While it is difficult to adjust and proceed with previous everyday life characters begin to find coping mechanisms to get them through the long lonely days. One of the main feelings that rise to the surface after denial has passed is resentment or pain. camouflaging the pain. As Oskar moves passed the stage of denial he begins to motion his anger toward his own mom. angered by the illusion that he supposes she doesn't respect or care about his dad's memory profoundly enough. After seeing her “happy”, he imagines that the fact that she laughs every ...

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