One of the people Oskar contacts happens to live in Oskar’s apartment building. Oskar finds a key in his Dad’s closet the key is in an envelope marked “Black.” Oskar decides to track down every person with the last name “Black” in New York City to try and figure out what the key unlocks. He has a loving and loyal relationship with his Grandma, but he’s still lonely and sad. Oskar, who was never as close with his Mom as with his Dad, is growing even farther away from her. Oskar feels incredibly guilty because his Dad left five phone messages on the morning of September 11, but he hasn’t told anyone about them more importantly, he hasn’t told anyone that he was actually in the apartment for the final time that Dad called, but he was too afraid to pick up the phone. Oskar is a very precocious boy: he’s extremely intelligent and curious, making up all sorts of esoteric inventions, but he also is scared and traumatized. Oskar Schell is a nine-year-old boy grieving the loss of his Dad, Thomas Schell, who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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