1) Biographical Index
Binyam Mohamed: Detainee
Charlie Crist: Governor
Anthony Casso: Mobster
Hiroko Takigasaki: Housewife
Meg Whitman: eBay
Charles McCreery: Scientist
David R. Holmes: Doctor
Kevin Broadus: Coach
Omar Hassan al-Bashir: Genocide
Jane Fonda: Actress
Elizabeth Royte: Author
Amy Winehouse: Singer
2) Metaphor: A figure of speech; using one thing to represent another, unrelated, thing.
There are pictures of doorknobs on pages 115, 134, and 212; each one is in a section of the text that has been written by Oskar's grandfather. I believe that these doorknobs represent the mistakes that Oskar's grandfather has made since the bombing of Dresden, especially those that are connected to family, and thus, in his mind, to his memories of Anna, who would have been Oskar's great-aunt. On page 211, Oskar's grandfather describes the aftermath of the first bombing of Dresden, and mentions that he “...grabbed the doorknob and it took the skin off my hand, I saw the muscles of my palm, red and pulsing, why did I grab it with my other hand?” I believe that thereafter, doorknobs came to represent mistakes that he had made, and in particular, mistakes that in retrospect made no logical sense.
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