Beginnings in Jonathan Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter

Drawing on Edward Said’s “Beginnings theory,” which is the central thesis in his book Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975), several post- 9/11 narratives reflect means for perceiving how these various accounts foreshadow a new era both literature political discourse. These constitute “beginning,” to use Saidian term, heralding vision of Islamic (Arab)/Western representation; shift from “historical pattern.” In this study, tension created by turning aboriginality” into personal representations reevaluated perspective. Such lend themselves manifesting interrelation between an “obligation” narration “sympathetic imagination” create beginnings. To achieve end, study will examine two narratives: Jonathan Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005) Alia Yunis’ The Counter Night (2009). By advancing investigating narratives, aims at reaching ideas about representation major event history, namely: 9/11.