Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-- Post 3

After breaking a vase, Oskar finds a mysterious key that was hidden inside an envelope.  He checked every single lock in his house that he could find, but it did not work on any of them. He decides to make it his mission to figure out where this key came from and goes to the locksmith to see if he can get some more information. Oskar finds out that it is a very old key, probably to a lockbox or a safe. Oskar decides that he is going to go on a mission for 8 months in order to find the lock that the key belongs to. He had no clue where the key was going to belong, but he knew that it was a connection that he had with him and his father, and he wanted to figure out where the key fit. I think that this makes a lot of sense and I completely understand why Oskar would want to do this. After his father had died, Oskar finally found something that he knew was important to his dad but didn’t know what it was. By deciding to go on this search for the lock that the key fit, Oskar was keeping his dad’s spirits alive in a sense because he was pursuing something that was important to his dad and trying to figure out what the connection was. This chapter continues and has some odd pictures. I am very confused as to what many of these pictures have to do with the book, because there are some of naked monkeys, some of geometric shapes, and some of just random things that I don’t see any connection to the book with. There is one picture that I found to be very powerful. It is a picture of a man or a woman jumping out of the World Trade Center. Although this picture isn’t really referred to in the book, just seeing someone jumping out of the building is terrifying. These people knew that they were going to die from the crash and the subsequent explosion, and they decided to jump out of the building for a quicker and less painful death. I don’t think I would ever be able to do something like that, and if I were in New York and saw that happening, I don’t know what I would do. It is so scary to think that people had no other option but to jump from extremely high heights out of a building, knowing that they would smack the floor and die.