Google

When Oskar finds the key, he begins his search to find its lock. "I Googled around and found out that Black wasn't the name of a company that made lockboxes" (41).

When the locksmith is talking to Oskar, he said " I could always make you a copy, if you'd like. And Oskar replies with, "I could have a googolplex keys". He goes to explain that a googolplex is a one with one hundred zero's after it.

(pg.35) The title of the chapter is Googolplex.

"Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people." (288)

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Google is related to search, and is thematically an example of trying to get an understanding of the whole by looking through the parts.