A Response to 9/11 by Jonathan Safran Foer

Question 2 • 25-26 TX-Literary Genres

Which line from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close reveals a nostalgic tone?

Answer

Even after a year, I still had an extremely difficult time doing certain things, like taking showers, for some reason, and getting into elevators, obviously.

A lot of the time I’d get that feeling like I was in the middle of a huge black ocean, or in deep space, but not in the fascinating way.

It’s just that everything was incredibly far away from me. It was worst at night. I started inventing things, and then I couldn’t stop, like beavers, which I know about.

We used to Greco-Roman wrestle on the floor in there, and tell hilarious jokes, and once we hung a pendulum from the ceiling and put a circle of dominoes on the floor to prove that the earth rotated.

Explanation

A nostalgic tone looks back fondly on earlier experiences. Choice D recalls playful times with “hilarious jokes” and a clever experiment with dominoes, suggesting warm memories of the past. The other choices focus on fear, loneliness, or difficulty rather than fond recollection.

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