My area of interest is loss
Opening sentence: In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, the grandmas life is defined by the people she has lost.
Questions: What loss? How did she loss people? What people did she loss? How does this define her? How does this loss affect her? How does this change?
Passages: Bombing of Dresden section where she losses her whole family and home town. Page 226 right after she losses her son and her daughter in law says she loves her for the first time. Page 216 when she losses her husband
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Those are good questions, Jacob. I think that your idea will become more specific as you start to explore them using the text. That's when your discoveries will occur.
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