3. How does the variety of images, layout, typography, and narrative voice affect your reading and understanding of the story up to this point. Select 1-2 specific examples to use in your response.
The book "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" uses a lot of different writing techniques throughout the book. Each page is significantly different. Some have a lot of words on the page and some have none at all, but they all have deeper meaning that reveals more and more about the story. The book has a section where it shows different types types of things that people would write when testing a colored pen on pages 45- 49. They did this to show the reader that most of the time the people write down the name of a color, and that it would be not be capitalized. Others would write down their names and it would be capitalized. This information helped Oskar to find out more about the envelope/key he found, and it helped the reader understand this more too. I like that they did this because it changes up the the typical pattern of the book and makes it more unique. An image that they use a lot throughout the book is the picture of the door lock. It appears on page 115, 134 and many others. This lock is brought up many times to show that Oskar is constantly trying to find the lock that the key he found will match up to. Different images and layouts are a good way to help the reader fully understand the story and have more interest in continuing to read and understand the graphic. The author of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" does a very good job with this.
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