Every Last One - Behind the Story (A Book Companion)

By Behind the Story™ Books

Loved the novel, but still hungry for more?

If you've devoured the last morsel of your savory book, but have a stomach that yearns for more, "Behind the Story" will be a most delightful surprise. Enjoy this basket full of hand-picked treats, compiled as an easy, concise, info-rich serving just for you! You'll be on a VIP tour where we will take you by the hand to show you what is behind the curtains, what is "Behind the Story".

Introducing: Behind the Story Series
• Over 100 published titles and sold all over the world… and counting!
• Refined for quality by a team of Researchers, Authors, and Editors

Re-read the original book RIGHT AFTER reading this book!
The original book suddenly became much richer and more enticing after I finished this Behind the Story, I HAD to open up the original book once more! Highly recommended!
From Sherry Lawson for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, February 22, 2012

A sneak peek of what's inside:
• Bibliography and resources, great as study guides or research resource.
• Trivia Questions and Discussion Starters, great for your book clubs!

SAMPLE EXCERPT:
“What was the inspiration behind the creation of this book?”

Like every American, 9/11 shook Anna Quindlen to the core. Since then she had realized that security and control were merely illusions that Americans hold on to. In addition, an issue that she always thinks about since then is parenting, teaching them about independence, and over-protection. Still, whether parents do it right or provide the right kind of things for their children, something like 9/11 blindsides a family. You can teach your child to drive carefully and responsibly, but that doesn’t matter when they encounter a drunk driver roaring through a stop sign on the road. 9/11 was a wake-up call especially for parents who believed that living a certain way or doing certain things or breastfeeding or buying the safest car means everything will be well and nothing will go wrong. This way of thinking, this illusion, doesn’t make room for the randomness of tragedies and accidents. This is what she wanted to explore in the book. This is the basic inspiration for Every Last One.
There are other themes that were made known in the book. Anna Quindlen has maintained that her themes inadvertently always involved being a woman in America, motherhood, and loss. She felt that the price of freedom for women in America has always been martyrdom in spite of expanded liberties acquired in her lifetime.
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Disclaimer: This work is not meant to replace, but to complement the original work. If you've loved the novel, then this is the book for you. It is educational in purpose, entertaining in nature, unauthorized and unofficial. It is a digestive work produced to stimulate the appetite and to encourage readers to appreciate the original work even more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: May 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781476970165

Book preview

Bibliography

Foreword

A personal note from the editor…

What if…? was the question that gave birth to Behind the Story Books.

When I pick up a book, from the first letter to the last, I am often completely enveloped in the novel - I'm laughing, rejoicing, fighting, and crying, side by side next to the characters. Even long after the book is finished, I found myself reminiscing about the scenes and characters over and over again in my head like a broken tape recorder – I was left high and very dry.

One particularly pleasant evening, after closing the last page to a wonderful story, I just HAD to find out everything about the book - how it was created, how it was developed, who the author was, - everything.

This sudden spurt of passion has led me to create and develop Behind the Story Books, to share with you - my fellow book lovers – a fan’s love for books. I hope you can see the love that went into the creation this book. Please enjoy this book and support Behind the Story Books. It is created for a fan, by a fan.

So without further ado, I present to you…

© 2013 Behind the Story™ Books

Behind the Story: A Book Companion

for the fans, by the fans

Are you ready to go backstage?

Props and Sets

Book Title: EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

Author Name: JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Time it was written: 2004

Place it was written: NOT SPECIFIED

First publication: APRIL 4, 2005

Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT

Narrator: FIRST PERSON

Point of view: OSKAR SCHELL

Tone: SAD, ILLUMINATED, MULTI LAYERED, EXTREMELY GRIPPING

Tense: PRESENT

Setting (Time): FROM 09/11, 2011 TILL 2005

Setting (Place): NEW YORK CITY

Protagonist: OSKAR SCHELL

Theme: HOPE, HEALING PROCESS, war, lessons of war, prevention of war, survival, humor and tragedy, destruction and invention, something and nothing, life and death

Motif: TYPOGRAPHICAL AND TEXTUAL EXPERIMENT, photos and illustrations

Symbol: key, Oskar’s father’s empty resting place, Blacks, photos

Who’s the author anyways?

Jonathan Safran Foer is a Jewish-American author and professor. He was born in Washington, D.C. on February 21, 1977 as the middle son of Albert Foer, a lawyer and president of the American Antitrust Institute, and Esther Safran Foer, daughter of Holocaust survivors and