What was a pretty blue vase doing way up there? i couldn’t reach it, obviously, so i moved over the chair with the tuxedo still on it, and then i went to my room to get the collected shakespeare set that grandma bought for me when she found out that i was going to be yorick, and i brought those over, four tragedies at a time, until i had a stack that was tall enough.

how does the narration shape oskar’s characterization in this excerpt?
his curiosity renders him extremely childish.
his literary references render him mature for his age.
his dramatic experience suggests great talent.
his plan for retrieving the case suggests great ingenuity.

His literary references render him mature for his age.

Explanation:

The excerpt comes from the novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and is said by Oskar, a nine-year-old boy, who is also the narrator and protagonist of the story. For a boy of his age, it is not common to have the Collected Shakespeare set and know about their characters (like Yorick, a character of the play Hamlet), therefore these literary references render help portray him as someone intelligent and mature for his age.

hospitality is mentioned many times in odysseus. it is known as xenia in the poem. one notable example is.

here is a poor man come, a wanderer,

driven by want to beg his bread, and everyone

in hall gave bits, to cram his bag—only

antinous threw a stool, and banged his shoulder

the lines show odysseus disguised as a beggar and shares his bread with another beggar in a weird way because he had to defeat him in order to eat. however, odysseus does not kill the old man and even shows his hospitality.

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