Extremely Loud and Not Close. Group 5 discussion

judging by the ways in which each of them recall the past, do you think Oskar is more like his grandmother or grandfather?

I think Oskar is probably pretty similar to both because both his grandparents don't really seem to vent their emotion at all, they just internalize it and let it pass. However Oskar does do some external venting I guess by his means of bruising himself and thinking of inventions but for the most part I think he stays very controlled in his emotions just like his grandparents.

I would say more like his grandfather. His grandmother focuses more about what happened, and his grandfather focuses on how it made him feel. Also, with dealing with the past, Oskar bruises himself, and his grandfather no longer speaks, so I see some similarities in how they respond to loss and grief.