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The Tin Drum Table of Contents
The Tin Drum Book Notes is a free study guide on The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass. Browse the summary below:
Author Biography / Context of the Work
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One-Page Plot Summary
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Character Descriptions
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Object/Place Descriptions
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Quotes
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Topic Tracking
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Topic Tracking: Individuality/Identity
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Topic Tracking: Red & White
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Chapter Summaries
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Book 1, Chapter 1: The Wide Skirt
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Chapter 2: Under the Raft
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Chapter 3: Moth and Light Bulb
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Chapter 4: The Photograph Album
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Chapter 5: Smash a Little Windowpane
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Chapter 6: The Schedule
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Chapter 7: Rasputin and the Alphabet
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Chapter 8: The Stockturm. Long-Distance Song Effects
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Chapter 9: The Rostrum
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Chapter 10: Shopwindows
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Chapter 11: No Wonder
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Chapter 12: Good Friday Fare
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Chapter 13: Tapered at the Foot End
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Chapter 14: Herbert Truczinski's Back
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Chapter 15: Niobe
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Chapter 16: Faith, Hope, Love
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Book 2, Chapter 17: Scrap Metal
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Chapter 18: The Polish Post Office
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Chapter 19: The Card House
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Chapter 20: He Lies in Saspe
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Chapter 21: Maria
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Chapter 22: Fizz Powder
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Chapter 23: Special Communiqués
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Chapter 24: How Oskar Took His Helplessness to Mrs. Greff
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Chapter 25: 165 lbs.
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Chapter 26: Bebra's Theater at the Front
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Chapter 27: Inspection of Concrete, or Barbaric...
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Chapter 28: The Imitation of Christ
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Chapter 29: The Dusters
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Chapter 30: The Christmas Play
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Chapter 31: The Ant Trail
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Chapter 32: Should I or Shouldn't I?
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Chapter 33: Disinfectant
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Chapter 34: Growth in a Freight Car
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Chapter 35: Firestones and Tombstones
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Chapter 36: Fortuna North
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Chapter 37: Madonna 49
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Chapter 38: The Hedgehog
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Book 3, Chapter 39: In the Clothes Cupboard
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Chapter 40: Klepp
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Chapter 41: On the Fiber Rug
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Chapter 42: In the Onion Cellar
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Chapter 43: On the Atlantic Wall or Concrete Eternal
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Chapter 44: The Ring Finger
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Chapter 45: Last Streetcar or Adoration of a Preserving Jar
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Chapter 46: Thirty
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