ELIC Pg. 1-107

1) The novel is in first person point of view from the perspective of Oscar Schell a little 9 year old boy who lost his father in the attacks of 9-11. Having this little boy be the "voice" of the story really bothers me. It's like his mind can't keep track of things and he jumps from one thing to another rather quickly. The side story of his grandmother and grandfather is a small reprieve from the chaos that is Oscar.
2) Oscar is looking for a lock that he can open with a key he believes his father left him before he died. They used to have kind of treasure hunts together and his father would create elaborate things for Oscar to work through and find. He's really looking for his father. He wants his father back and he's obsessed with it. He doesn't think his mother cares about his father anymore and he doesn't think she cares about him. It's really quite sad.
3)There is an image of fingerprints on page 65. There are images for each finger with the classic black ink. and then at the bottom there's another copy of the thumbs and the fingers but how they actually look on hands. I think this picture adds to narrative because Oscar mentions that his mother had him fingerprinted but now she doesn't even care when he leaves. I think it's a particularly sad moment in the book when he talks about getting closer to his Dad but further from his mother.