Comment:That indirect characterization also ties into the admiration that Oskar has for his father. Because he is using a phrase his father originally used, the reader can get the sense that he just wishes to be like him, even if it is in a small way.
"'I'm being annoying,' I said. 'You're not being annoying,' she said, but it's extremely hard to believe someone when they tell you that." (Pg. 97) This is one of many many times throughout the book where Oskar shows himself to be much more mature than one might expect a 9 year old to be. Here he is very self aware and realizes how rude he is being just going to the Blacks' houses and forcing them to talk to him.
Another instance on the same page that characterizes him as once again as much more of a thinker than your average 9 year old is when he tells the same woman, one of the many Blacks, "I told her I was twelve--lie #59--because I wanted to be old enough for her to love me."
Oskar is a very determined character. When he set his mind to find all of the Blacks, "[he] was willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary" (90).
Oskar is starting to grow older and mature, as he starts to like a girl with a true feeling for the first time ever.
"We stopped laughing, I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: Do you like me?" (117)
Oksar is asking her this question since he is starting to get feelings for her, and they later make love behind the shed.
I believe that Oskar is a mold of all his family members because he is a jerk like his grandfather he has lost someone like his grandmother and secludes himself like his mother.
Oskar is directly linked to september 11 because his father was killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Oskar only wears white which ties into Why does Oskar only wear white
Oskar has trouble with emotions. He has difficulties expressing them and interpreting them, for himself and others. One of his Inventions is a shower that acts like a mood ring, changing your skin color to match how you're feeling. He says this is a good inventions because "there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot of something, but you don't know what the something is" (163). Another example of Oskar having trouble making sense of emotions is when he visists Fo Black. After explaining the significance of I heart NY means, Oskar claims he "couldn't tell what he was feeling, because I couldn't speak the language of his feelings" (239).