Moreover, it is important have the ability to emphasise with this character and change their perspectives or contribute their own experiences with loss to explain the others why somebody could show such behaviour. The team work is followed by a presentation and discussion of this work to ensure all students have reached the same level of knowledge. I thought this is the best way, as the students can talk about how they perceived the character and his or her ability to deal with the trauma they have gone through. I decided to teach the topic by group work to facilitate the exchange of experiences without the danger to be exposed in front of the class. The reason for choosing thesubtopics namely ‘inventing’ and ‘heavy boots’ referring to Oskar Grandfather Schell’s ‘aphasia’ and ‘the doorknobs’ and finally, ‘supressing’ and ‘the feeling of being needed’ with regard to Grandmother Schell reveal concreteness for the main topic. Moreover, it would be possible to teach this topic interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary in ethics or religious education classes.Īs everyone could be affected by trauma I determined this topic for my planned lesson. Even if people’s trauma is caused by different events there will be a connection between these people. As every student can identify with this potential challenge, it is important for them to get to know different ways of dealing with trauma.Foer’s story even reveals that coping with trauma is able to bring people from different races and ages together. Trauma seems to me being an essential topic to discuss in school as everybody sooner or later has to deal with loss or already dealt with it in the past. In this paper I will examine how the characters Oskar, Grandfather Schell, and Grandmother Schell cope with trauma, caused by the Dresden bombing and respectively, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Furthermore, important themes are the diversity of New York, growing up, autism and love and war. According to these events, he emphasises the continuation of life of the victim’s relatives. Foer approaches several topics in the narrativelike the historic events of Hiroshima, the Dresden bombing in 1945 and obviously 9/11 accompanied by trauma. The novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, deals with a nine-year old boy, Oskar Schell, who tries to detect the meaning of a key, which he found in an envelope labelled “Black”, by his father, who has died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. 2 A Brief Introduction to Trauma Theoriesħ.4 Home Burial by Robert Frost 1 Introduction
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