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I have to admit I'm not having the greatest time reading 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'. It's alright, but there was a really tedious section with a bunch of letters from Oskar's grandparents written to him before he was born. This section gives us insight into Oskar's family, but it's slightly confusing and not very exciting. But that's over and done with. Oskar has performed in an abridged version of Hamlet at his school, and visited a few more 'Blacks'. There was one part in the section that I read that really struck me. When Oskar was performing in Hamlet, his grandmother came to every show. She made a fool of herself. She laughed at the wrong times and was very loud and obnoxious. On page 144, a boy in the play is imitating Oskar's grandmother, and doing a good job of it at that. While Oskar is laughing on the outside, he is embarrassed and angry on the inside. He says "I wished that she'd had an invisibility suit," (144). This was a part of the book that seemed a little more 'real' to me. Oskar is a strange boy, so a lot of this book strikes me as him acting as 'Oskar', not as a normal boy would act. However, this part of the story could, and does, happen to everyone. I've been to plays where I can hear someone I know from backstage. Nobody related to me, thankfully, but none the less I feel embarrassed. Not so much embarrassed for me, but for that person. However, I can totally imagine feeling embarrassed myself were it to be my family I could hear from backstage. And my parents have embarrassed me, of course. Just not exactly like how it happened to Oskar. I think I'm starting to like the book better, but the section with the letters was definitely a struggle.