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"dad constantly use to tell me i was too smart for retail..."second of all, if i'm so smart, then why am i in retail?" oskars dad wants him to succeed and have more than he has.

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" I converted Dads last voice message into morse code."

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"id lost the only person i could have spent my only life with."

this quote talks about how Oscar's grandpa was morning over someone close passing away, due to that we see him become a mute while also using paper and pen to speak. when he met his future wife she asked for him to marry her but he couldn't do it because of that trauma and he doesn't want to lost anyone else.

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Narrator: A 9 year old boy
1st person POV
the impact of the POV was it gets to show how the narrator feels about the situation concerning his fathers death

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chapter 1:
the narrator is a 9 year old boy named Oskar. It is in 1st point of view. A specific quote from the book is "Maybe, you should check in with me next time, ok?" This explains that since his dad has passed everything has changed.
- valerie

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The narrator of this chapter is Osker and the POV is first person. Because first person is used we are able to see his thoughts and emotions, and why he does what he does. You are able to see why he acts the way he does in the art store, because of his dad.

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"A great game that Dad and I would sometimes play on Sundays was Reconnaissance Expedition. Sometimes the Reconnaissance Expeditions were extremely simple-and sometimes they were incredibly complicated and would go on for a couple of weeks." Page 8

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hes still living with the pain of something in his life

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"i was already out of words when i met your mother...we'd both come to New York Lonely, broken and confused," Oskars grandfather talks about how he met his wife (oskars grandmother) and that they both struggled together

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(Nick w)  in chapter one we learned that Oscar liked his dad more then anyone else. he was only 9 when his father had passed. did not have a to good of a relationship with his mom like he did his dad.
he is curious and a mysterious kid.

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(Gracie Timko) "His tuxedo was over the chair he used to sit on when he tied his shoes, and I thought, weird. Why wasn't it hung up with his suits?" This shows Ritual because its him wondering why it wasn't hung up.

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"the average person falls asleep in seven minutes, but I couldn't sleep, not after hours" he couldn't fall asleep after his father passed cause he keeps thinking of what happened which makes it difficult to forget ( lexi n)

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(Lauren T.)
We learn very early on in the book that Oscar is smart, but one example that stood out was when he made jewlery from Morse code from messages of his dad. "As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was converted last voice message into Morse code,..." (pg. 35). This is an indirect example of him being smart because it's not out right saying he is, but we know that not a lot of people have the talent to do that.

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" I wasn't even a little bit panicky, b/c mom and dad worked in midtown, and grandma didn't work, so everyone i loved was safe." You can tell family is very important to him and hes glad to know that they are safe. " I thought about my small victories and everything i'd seen destroyed, i'd swum thru mink coats on my parents' bed while they hosted downstairs....'' I'd lost the only person i could have spent my only life with'' This shows he really thinks about his life in depth and he still misses his dad the main person he loved, grandpa is talking in this part of the book.

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" I wasn't even a little bit panicky, b/c mom and dad worked in midtown, and grandma didn't work, so everyone i loved was safe." You can tell family is very important to him and hes glad to know that they are safe. " I thought about my small victories and everything i'd seen destroyed, i'd swum thru mink coats on my parents' bed while they hosted downstairs....'' I'd lost the only person i could have spent my only life with'' This shows he really thinks about his life in depth and he still misses his dad the main person he loved, grandpa is talking in this part of the book.

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He is a 9 year old man and he is not aloud to watch television. They went to the Bronx Zoo a year prior. He is getting multiple messages from his dad saying that hes fine. You can also see the translation of tone starts to change as the messages come after one another.

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The narrator talk about how his silence went from no silence at all to completely silent as he loses words overtime. Also, he tells us how losing these words affected his life more and more as time passed by. Then he was always silent and wrote stuff on his hands to speak without actually speaking. Then he tells us about this girl he met in a coffee shop and how she wants him to marry her. He ends the conversation by writing down "help". This might be a sign that he does want to marry this girl.

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The narrator is Oscar's Grandfather. The POV of this chapter is First-Person POV. The impact that the POV has on the reader is that we get to see, in detail, Oscar's Grandfather's thoughts as well as getting a more emotional and personal account of his story.

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Oscar's Grandfather is telling Oscar's Father, who isn't born yet, about how he went to from an endless talker to a mute only able to talk through pen. His struggle of slowly losing his own voice over time, until he can no longer speak at all. He talks how depressed it had made him,  how it stripped him of his personality. He soon describes the events of how he met Oscar's Grandmother in New York, at a bakery. She talks with him on how they both have lost everything, but when she learns he is unable to speak she has a single request.
"Please marry me."
Oscar's grandfather says he felt un-easy about the situation, with the chapter ending in,
"Help."
- Eric Hrelec Period 4

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(Angela Chromack-Brown)
"There was a lot of stuff that made me panicky, like suspension bridges, germs, airplanes, fireworks, Arab people on the subway...smoke...tall buildings..." Based on how his father died, he is now suspicious of certain things/people. We can infer that he is panicked by smoke, tall buildings, and airplanes because of his trauma from 9/11 and is suspicious of things that remind him of it.

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(pg)35 He put me in heavy boot ,it explains his feelings and the pressure going on in his life and shows what he is thinking of things going on so its the conflict on the story on whats going on.heavy on him.And explains the struggle of whats going on.

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Chapter 2 pg. 20 "You hear the old people in the streets and some of them are moaning 'ay yay yay' but some of them are clinging to their last word ' I '." People that have had something traumatic happen to them slowly loose their ability to speak due to PTSD.

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"I didn't have a pen id write "Anna" in thin air- backward and right to left- so that i was speaking with could see. "

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#3 pgs 35-36 (Cross Bates and Abigail Eliott)

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#3 pgs 35-36 (Cross Bates and Abigail Eliott)

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in chapter 3 Oscar  is missing his father and goes to his closet where he find a blue vase on the top shelf he reaches to get it Oscars  drops it and discovers a envelope inside which says "black" written in red pen, and in the envelope was a key. Oscar tell his mom he's sick the next day and can't go to school. After his mom leaves he goes to the locksmith to see what the key is to but with no luck he goes home. The next day he goes to the craft store to see what the word "black" meant and Oscar found his dad's signatures on everything.

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"I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm..." page 17

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Oskar is a 9 year old boy living in Manhattan. At the beginning of the chapter he talks about his inner thoughts towards everything. Shortly after that he is in a limo with his mother and grandma going to his father's funeral. He keeps talking to the limo driver and asking him questions that only he would ask. He seems restless and naive to the situation with his father. it it revealed later that his father was killed in the terrorist attacks of 9/11
(Ryan Davis)

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The narrator is the grandfather of Oscar. The point of view is first person in the stance of the grandpa. Impact of the POV gives is that it gives the reader how the pap actually felt when he was growing up. The purpose of this being included in the book is to give a background of his life. He loses everything and cant talk and then he is in a coffee shop getting coffee. He meets a lady and they have a conversation by pap writting on a piece of paper. She proposes to him by writing,"please, Marry me" on a piece of paper.

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'but if there isn't a reason,then does the universe exist at all'
'well, what i don't get is why do we exist?'
'we could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.'