Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
This page is about the book Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I start writing
this page, after I saw the movie and wanted to compare the screenplay with the book. This page is made
for educational purposes only.
Some interesting links:
Detailed contents with notes
The page numbering in this contents is based on the Pinguin edition of
2006, ISBN:9780141025186.
- 1: Chapter "What The?".
- 4: Business card of Gerald Thompson.
- 9-10: Paper clipping with red circle around the wordt "not stop looking".
- 14-15: Message one at 8:52. Mentiones the times of the other messages:
9:12, 9:31, 9:46, 10:04, and 10:22:27.
- 16: Chapter "Why I'm not where you are 5/21/63"
- 19-21: contain one short sentense in the center of the page.
- 29: Picture of a door nob. Copyright © 2005 Debra Melzer.
- 32,34: contain one short sentense in the center of the page.
- 35: Chapter "Googoplex"
- 45, 47-49: Words written by people to test pens in various colours.
- 53: Picture of keys hanging on pins on the wall. Copyright © 2005 Debra Melzer.
- 54: Picture of a DVD player showing an image of Stephen Hawkins with
in the back ground (out of focus) a boys face laying down.
© The Scotsman/Corbis Sygma.
- 55: Picture of person (actor) with skull. © Underwood & Underwood/Corbis.
- 56: Drawing with the texts "Intrepid Flyer" and "paper airplane #14".
© Stephen Waits.
- 57: Picture of two turttles in mating position. © Peter Johnson/Corbis.
- 58: Picture of box with stones. © Alison Wright/Corbis.
- 59: Picture of falling man. Photo illustration based on a photograph by Lyle Owesko.
©2001/Polaris.
- 60/61: Picture over Manhattan with Central Parks replaced by a white
rectangle. © David Ball/Corbis.
- 62: Picture of falling man (enlarged). Photo illustration based on a
photograph by Lyle Owesko. ©2001/Polaris.
- 63: The word "Purple" written with a green pen.
- 64: Picture of tennis player laying on the court.
© Chang W. Lee/New York Times.
- 65: Picture of fingerprints on sheet of paper.
© Randy Faris/Corbis.
- 66: Picture with title "Earliest Human Relatives (American Museum of
Natural History)". © Hiroshi Sugimoto.
- 67: Picture of cosmonaut on the ground with helmet on.
© ESA/CNES/Corbis.
- 69: Message two at 9:12.
- 69: "I gave myself a bruise".
- 69-71: Calling grandma on walkie-talkie.
- 70: Mother has friend called Ron.
- 73: What seems to be a list of best 10 friends, counting down from 10:
Walt, Lindy, Alicia, Farley, The Minch/Tooth paste(tied), Stan,
Buckminster, Mom, Grandma, Dad.
- 74: "Je suis, Tu es, ..."
- 75: Chapter "My Feelings"
- 86: Chapter "The only animal"
- 108: Chapter "Why I'm not where you are 5/21/63"
- 112: Page with a short sentense in the center.
- 115: Picture of a key hole. Copyright © 2005 Debra Melzer.
- 112: Page with a short sentense in the center.
- 121-123: Blank pages.
- 125: Page with a short sentense in the center.
- 129: Page with a short sentense in the center.
- 131: Page with a short sentense in the center.
- 134: Picture of a key hole. Copyright © 2005 Debra Melzer.
- 136-141: Pages with a short sentense in the center.
- 142: Chapter "
Heavy Boots Heavier Boots"
- 148: Picture of roller coaster. Copyright © 2005 Debra Melzer.
- 155: Picture of x-ray hand. © Lester v. Bergman/Corbis.
- 166/7: Picture of birds. Lower part of iii. © Marianna Müller.
- 168: Message three. At 9:31.
- 171: (In movie script)
- 174: Chapter "My Feelings"
- 187: Chapter "Hapiness, Hapiness"
- 191: Picture of a car jumping. © Ralph Crane/Tome & Life Pictures/Getty.
- 198: Picture of sliding doord. (No copyright notice.)
- 203 bottom - first quarter of 207: Text in italic consisting of short phrases with
a lot of white space.
- 205: Picture of falling man. Photo illustration based on a photograph by Lyle Owesko.
©2001/Polaris.
- 207: Fourth message at 9:46.
- 208: Chapter "Why I'm not where you are 4/12/78". Many words are encicled with red.
- 212: Picture of a door nob. Copyright © 2005 Debra Melzer.
- 217: Chapter "The Sixth Borough".
- 224: Chapter "My Feelings".
- 234: Chapter "Alive and Alone".
- 262: Chapter "Why I'm not where you are 9/11/03"
- 262-264, 266: Pages with a short sentense in the center.
- 265: Picture of a door nob with key hole. Copyright © 2005 Debra Melzer.
- 269-271: Pages with digits. (Detailed analysis.)
- 280: At the bottom of the page fragments of text in all caps.
- 281-284: Pages with print getting denser and denser.
- Chapter "A simple solution to an impossible problem"
- 289: Picture of door with number 75½. © Kevin Flemings/Corbis.
(Before on page 92.)
- 294: Picture of back of head of a man. © Philip Harvey/Corbis.
- 303: Picture of key. Copyright © 2005 by Anne Chambers.
- 304: Letter from Stephen Hawkings with answers.
- Chapter "My Feelings"
- Chapter "Beautiful and True"
- 317: Oskar: "I took pictures of the stars".
- 318: Picture of stars in the sky. © Rob Matheson/Corbis.
- 327-355, odd pages: Flip movie of man floating up the sky.
Mention of this book in my online diary
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