ECIL 1st blog post

At first, this book was a little hard to get into to and understand what was going on. Although after reading the first couple of pages, it has become an interesting and appealing novel to read. The style that the author uses is different than a lot of the other books that I have read. It seems that parts of the book are written like its Oskar’s mind rambling on and thinking about tons of different things. The way the author writes it is like it is describing the though process of Oskar at that moment. For example on page 40 and 41, Oskar is talking about the number of locks for every person in New York City. He keeps saying all of the different types of locks that people use like bathroom locks, closet locks, locks to cars and many other locks. Oskar keeps saying different numbers and doing math in his head, which shows that he is a smart boy. With all of his inventions and his crazy ideas, it also shows that he has a big imaginiation.  I think that it is a useful method in showing the type of person Oskar is and the way that he thinks.  

By the way the author describes the games that Oskar and his father used to play and what Oskar’s childhood was like with his dad, it shows that Oskar’s father had a major impact on his life, and his death is going to have an even larger impact. The games and puzzles that Oskar’s father played with him shows that his father really understood him and accepted him for who he was. By losing his father, he is losing his only father figure and one of the only people understood him. I feel like his mother doesn’t have as strong of a connection to Oskar as his father did and she doesn’t really know what to do with him during certain situations like in the limousine when Oskar is asking the driver a lot of different questions. Oskar is definitely going to have a hard time coping with the death of his father, just like any other person.