ELIC to End and FFN

1. Over the many months that Oskar is searching, he becomes less self absorbed. His focuses become less "what does this have to do with dad?" and more about the people he finds in his search for the lock. Near the end of his search, he begins to realize that he is not the only one who has lost someone or something important to them. You can tell that he has changed when he talks to Ron instead of just brushing him off like he usually does. He even accepts that Ron can be a part of his life. To me, this was showing that Oskar became less of a child, and I think that he probably noticed that about himself too.

2. Thomas Schell discovers that leaving was the wrong thing to do. His son tried to become him ("his own father," as the book says) instead of being his own person, when all Thomas Sr. wanted was for his son to NOT become him. He barely mentions his time away, even though it was so much more time than the things he did focus on. Almost all of his writing that isn't about before the bombing of Dresden is about being in New York, which shows that his mind is really more there than anywhere else.

3. Fast food doesn't affect my life much, since I don't care for it much. I do sometimes get something from Wendy's, and Subway is pretty delicious. I love subs. But honestly, if there was no more fast food, it would barely affect me. I only have it about once every month or so.

4. Fast food has surrounded me with advertising and made the places I've been have different things available to me. There's no way to list all the connections that the fast food industry has to things, but it's more than just eating there or not.