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Foreshadowing
Key Examples in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Frame Story
Explanation and Analysis—The Sixth Borough:
Foer embeds an allegorical frame story within Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close through "The Sixth Borough," a bedtime tale Oskar's father tells him. In this whimsical, magical-realist narrative, New York City once had a sixth borough beyond the familiar five. Over years, "a millimeter at a time, the Sixth Borough receded from New York," until its bridges collapse and tunnels snap. Before it's gone entirely, the residents anchor Central Park in Manhattan, ferrying it across while children sleep on the grass and dream into the night sky.
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