![]() ![]() Though it isn't clear, I take this to mean that Hawking is telling Oskar that his "inventions" are in fact the very stuff that life depends upon. Then he tells Oskar, "Maybe you're not inventing at all". In this response, Hawking tells Oskar that he wishes he was a poet, and that he wishes he had made things that life depended on. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud " (235).Īt one point Oskar sends a letter to Stephen Hawking asking "what if I never stop inventing"? Hawking eventually gives a wistful, slightly enigmatic response. As Oskar himself says "I tried to invent optimistic inventions. Unfortunately, these inventions also prove problematic when it results in Oskar inventing different deaths for his dad. ![]() Oskar invents in order to deal with the loss of his father. Speaking of his inventions, the first line of the book, is Oskar asking "What about a teakettle?" Though I made some conjectures about the book being odd, and intimate that turned out to be correct, there was obviously also the meaning behind the inventing itself that I never could have imagined. It really was the kind of stuff only a child would imagine. His constant inventing was fascinating, and to think that Foer came up with these off-the-wall ideas is even more impressive. Oskar Schell is one of the most endearing, lovable, and creative characters I can remember encountering in a book. ![]()
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