ELIC lesson structure and setting

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ELIC Structure and Setting

Purpose:

To try to make sense of the strange inside appearance of this novel.

To explain what the impact of the different settings could be on the storyline and the characters in the story.

ELIC and the importance of structure

The pages:

-9

to

341

Let us have a look!

ELIC Structure:

The structure of the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is unusual from the beginning, with the mixing of different narrators and syntax styles, but Jonathan Safran Foer also regularly interrupts the story by adding different pages which contain:

1) Photos (e.g. p. 53 photo with keys)

2) a single phrase (e.g. p. 20, "And I wouldn't say no to something sweet").

3) or are Blank  (e.g. p 121, 122 & 123)

How does the inclusion of these different pages affect the novel?

What could be a possible reason for the author to have so many visual effects in his novel?

Write down what the word Setting means to you?

There are 3 settings in this story: write them down.

ELIC Setting:

1. New York City 2003

2. The Sixth Borough 

3. Dresden, Germany, 1945

What is the 6th borough and what happened to it?

Why is the setting Dresden, Germany, 1945 important to the story?

Read the book!

And do try to Enjoy it!

;)