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The effect of 9/11 on Oskar and the rest of the world, was very different because though people lost family members we would imagine how they felt if they lost a mother, father, sister or brother, but to experience 9/11 in the eyes of a 9 year old boy makes you wonder how has that day effected children. Oskar views that day as the worst day ever because not only did he lose a father but also a best friend. Oskar’s relationship with his father was very close, t hey did everything with each other and now that his father died he feels alone, even though he still has his mother she doesn’t mean much to him than his father. Though Oskar viewed 9/11 as the worst day ever others saw it as loss of family, loss of work loss of money, economy going down and much more. Both views on 9/11 have more differences than similarities. The authors’ intention of choosing a child to examine the 9/11 attacks must have been the fact that children didn’t have much say in what they felt about the event because they seems like they had not understanding of what had occurred. A child’s perspective of any event can have so much impact in their life’s that it changes them forever weather it is noticed or not. The fact that a child like Oskar goes through a journey to find answers to his questions makes him unique and what the reader will notice is that it stated in the book that he bruised him self seldom when he made mistakes or though of bad thoughts, or when he didn’t accomplish what he wanted in the first place he would curse. The image that a boy goes to great lengths meeting people he has never before meet in his life to find out answers makes a person think that children are sometimes capable of doing more things than adults.