Riley Venne Post #1

          Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, is littered with pictures with little meaning to the story; however, the few important images that Safran hides in his text are not hidden at all. These are the photos that have meaning in the story. Throughout pages 53-37, Safran shows photo's which are mostly related to Oscar's interests, such as Steven Hawking, the wall of keys, the paper airplane template, and the astronaut. Even though the majority of the photos inserted into the text are images of Oscar's interests, and irrelevant to the story at the time; Safran also manages to implement photos that add to the story. These photo's include the two pictures of the world trade center with a man falling next to the building on the right. The extensive use of pictures in the text that are hardly related to the storyline at all, greatly emphasizes the pictures that are about the text. By placing two moving photo's in a section filled with irreverent photos Safran does an exceptional job at making the images stand out.