The day of the 9/11 attacks, Oskar was let out of school early. He went home and realized that there were a couple of missed calls, so he decided to check them. He quickly noticed that these messages were from his father. Soon after his father died he takes this answering machine with the messages and keeps it to himself so that he can always hear his father's voice and so he can protect his mother. For example, Oskar explains, "I knew I could never let mom hear the messages, because protecting her is one of my most important raisons d'etre"(Foer 68). Protecting his mom is very important to him so he feels as if he is making a very important decision by taking the machine before she can hear anything. It also allows Oskar to hear his dads voice whenever he wants, and to pretending even for a little bit that his father isn't really gone.
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