Oskar describes his grief not as being sad but as “having heavy boots,” which allows him to have a way of expressing an indescribable emotion. Oskar uses external cues to help him process his emotions. Unlike Grandpa’s meticulous photographs of the apartment, Oskar’s book is a sort of photo album of his mind. Oskar keeps a binder of Stuff That Happened to Me that’s filled with plenty of stuff that didn’t happen to him-images of tennis players and astronauts, for example-but provides him with a fossil record of his imagination. Oskar is also insatiably curious, and-as his business card, which has about twenty different occupations listed shows-he has a huge range of interests, from making jewelry to physics to archaeology to the Beatles. As he walks around New York, Oskar carries a tambourine, which he shakes to try and calm himself. Oskar is the nine-year-old protagonist of the novel: he’s extremely precocious and incredibly imaginative, but he has a lot of fears, worries, anxieties, and guilt.
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