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Answer:
His literary references render him mature for his age.
Explanation:
The excerpt comes from the novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and is said by Oskar, a nine-year-old boy, who is also the narrator and protagonist of the story. For a boy of his age, it is not common to have the Collected Shakespeare set and know about their characters (like Yorick, a character of the play Hamlet), therefore these literary references render help portray him as someone intelligent and mature for his age.