The Significant Paragraph In The Things They Carried By Oskar

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Several significant details throughout the novel have shown through this passage. This has shown us a better view of the novel. Oskar is a little kid of a gruesome matter. This is more unusual for his age because his life has been defined by the death of his father. Oskar imagines how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same. He also described how there isn't going to be room to bury anyone else. This is an example of how Oskar uses his time to figure strange details to avoid bigger emotions of the reality of his father death and disappearance. In the novel, Oskar is convinced that his father died during the 9/11 attack on the world trade center. Oskar tremendously tries and when he thinks he is up to no

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