Foer "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" 1-74

In the  novel  "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,"by Jonathan Safran Foer, he initially tells the story from the perspective of Oskar.  Throughout the first chapter, Foer manages to illustrate Oskar, his attitude and the way he thinks, and also his connection with his family.  This novel is definitely one where things are done, but not explained until later, leaving its readers with questions until its later answered.  For example, in the first chapter, Oskar's, who is un named up until this point, was revealed to be dead, but the story later goes on to describe oskar's close relationship, and friendship with his father.  I admired this technique, because it allows the reader to sympathize with Oskar's loss by describing their relationship after we have already learned about the death.  It doesn't his us as hard, because we do not see his father as an invincible character to fall in love with, but to appreciate for the moment.
Overall i found it quite hard to sympathize with Oskar because he seemed to be a little racist. The way he talked to the driver was strange as well.  I thought it was nice of him to trust the mail man, and the door man with keys to the house, but later it was revealed to be for his own personal needs, and he did't understand the potential threat they could be. I have no idea how old he is up to this point either, sometimes i am convinced he is a kid, and other times, i am convinced that he is an adult,  mostly when they talk about him running the business.
The next chapter was about a man named Thomas, who came to a decision to go through a vow of silence.  This section was weird because we really did't know who he was, until it was later revealed in the next chapter.  This section was told from the perspective of Oskar's father. written to his unborn children, this was my favorite moment in the book so far.  I realized that it was his father when he was talking to the lady at the art supply store and saw his father's name written all over the place.  Another brief moment of the reader desiring information only to be revealed later as we kept reading, was the mentioning of the messages that Thomas left on the voice mail.  Oskar did a tedious task of making bracelets with Morse coding of the messages and color to embody the mood that goes with it, and we still do not know what the messages say until later.