It seems like, from various blog posts and class discussion the past couple wks, that we all generally can agree that EL & IC is a difficult book to discuss for some reason. However, our reasons for that seem to be different.<\/p>\n
From my perspective, I find Foer’s work to be difficult in analyzing, not because of the type of emotions that were utilized throughout the book or because it does tangent from 9-11, but because of how raw, honest, and childlike<\/em> the narration was written.<\/p>\n How much more can you say or add onto that could further elaborate Oskar’s thoughts, feelings, and words? He is, after all, a 9-year old kid and I found that Foer did an excellent job narrating as one. There is a certain purity\/innocence to Oskar, and\u00a0I feel whatever we would want to say would only taint the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems like, from various blog posts and class discussion the past couple wks, that we all generally can agree that EL & IC is a difficult book to discuss for some reason. However, our reasons for that seem to be different. From my perspective, I find Foer’s work to be difficult in analyzing, not… Continue reading EL&IC final thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}