This character betrays his presumptive father to the Nazis at the very beginning of World War Two and his official father to the Soviets at the very end.
This character indulges his claustrophilia while his grandmother sells potatoes each market day and by hiding under the bandstand during speeches by Albert Forster. This character stalks and attempts to rape his neighbor toward the end of the book in which he appears, and earlier, he eggs on the machine-gunning of a group of French nuns on the coast of Normandy just before D-Day; both episodes display this character's lifelong ambivalence about nurses and nuns. This character betrays his presumptive father to the Nazis at the very beginning of World War Two and his official father to the Soviets at the very end. This character's creation myth begins under the four skirts of Anna Koljaiczek (Kolya-check), who shields the fugitive arsonist Joseph Bronski. By sing-shattering the chandelier of the state theater from the top of the StocktÃ¼rm, this character foretells both Kristallnacht and the cataclysm to follow. For 10 points, name this auditory-clairvoyant dwarf and Danzig native, the protagonist of Gunther Grass' The Tin Drum.
This character indulges his claustrophilia while his grandmother sells potatoes each market day and by hiding under the bandstand during speeches by Albert Forster.
Oscar Matzerath (accept either or both)