When he shows the envelope to a woman in the hobby shop, She tells him that it is a common surname. He starts to ask some people whether they know something about the key or the word Black. The key doesn’t look familiar to Oscar, it’s larger and longer than a normal key. When Oscar cleans up the broken vase he finds an envelope with on the front the word Black and inside a strange key. One day a blue vase fell of the cupboard into shards when he was searching. He loves to listen to his dad’s voice and search through his belongings. Oscar has hidden the tape with these records, so his mother doesn’t get angry because he didn’t answer the phone. Before Thomas died he called several times to his house, no one took the phone so he left some messages behind on the answering machine. His grandfather left her when she was pregnant of his dad. Now he lives with his mom and her new friend Ron, he doesn’t like him at all. Oscar lost his dad, Thomas, with the horrible attack at the World Trade Center. The wonderful book Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close immediately starts with the thoughts of Oscar Shell, a 9 year old boy.
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