Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I knew I could never let Mom hear the messages, because protecting her is one of my most important raisons d'être, so what I did was I took Dad's emergency money from on top of his dresser, and I went to the Radio Shack on Amsterdam. What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?

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Lilian Whitaker

3 March, 21:16

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I knew I could never let Mom hear the messages, because protecting her is one of my most important raisons d'être, so what I did was I took Dad's emergency money from on top of his dresser, and I went to the Radio Shack on Amsterdam. What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?

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Jaidyn Stein · Answer 1

That the messages would increase his mother's suffering?

Olivia Riddle · Answer 2

The best assumption that we can get from this excerpt is that this message will be able to increase his mother's suffering. He is really concern about his mother and he knows that the message would harm her a lot. For him, she is the reason for living that's why he acted like that.