Oskar Schell Video | Movie Clips & Character interview

Oskar Schell is the main character of the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. He is a 9 year old boy, who lost his father in the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 2001. One year after his father's death, Oskar finds a key in his father's closet, but he doesn´t know what it's for. A long journey in the search of the matching keyhole begins and the book is...  MORE

Oskar Schell is the main character of the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. He is a 9 year old boy, who lost his father in the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 2001. One year after his father's death, Oskar finds a key in his father's closet, but he doesn´t know what it's for. A long journey in the search of the matching keyhole begins and the book is about this mystery. The book, is at the same time, an exciting book to read due to the mystery about the key, but is also a tragic story about a boy, who is trying to get on with his life, after the loss of a parent. Personality Oscar Schell is a curious, sensitive and highly intelligent child. He has more ambitions and knowledge then you would expect a child his age to have. He participates in school plays, plays the tambourine when afraid, talks to his cat - Buckminster - like one would talk to a person, is constantly inventing, has no qualms about walking through Manhattan talking to total strangers, explains words he uses to his class mates, loves zipping up his mom's dress, is learning French, and is constantly calculating. He is upset about the meat and dairy products in the refrigerator, LESS