Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Commentary #2
During the past reading chapters, I was really lost on who was talking at some points because the author kept switching roles between narrators. My main question of the reading was what was the significance of why he kept asking the time. "do you know what time it is?" (112, 118, 125, 129). Did this symbolize some sort of "running out of time" like with the grandma? I personally just need some clarification on his conversations through writing in these chapters.
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I think that it is definitely possible that there is some greater meaning for why Oskar always asks for the time, but I believe that a good temporary explanation has to do with his autism. Autistic children often have obsessions with numbers and exact details. That is why Safran has Oskar telling the reader the exact time that the messages from his father came in during the 9/11 tragedy, instead of saying, "Around so and so time dad left another message".
ReplyDeleteI kind kind of confused too, because the grandma and Oskar have similar styles of writing, but then once the author started to refer to Oskar, then I knew it was the grandma. I noticed the time thing being brought up a lot also, but I didnt think much of it. It was also used during a lot of scenes with the grandpa and the grandma which I feel like could have meant something about their time together running out.
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