Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” is a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer that was published in 2005. The novel revolves around the nine year-old protagonist, Oskar Schell who lost his father in the when the World Trade Center was attacked on September 11th. Oskar is now suffering from severe PTSD about leaving the house and struggling with the knowledge that he did not pick up his father’s last phone call because he was too scared. Oskar breaks a vase in his father’s closet and discovers a strange key in an envelope with the word “Black” written on it.