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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

One-Page Plot Summary

Character Descriptions

Object/Place Descriptions

Quotes

Topic Tracking

Topic Tracking: Individuality/Identity

Topic Tracking: Red & White


Chapter Summaries

Book 1, Chapter 1: The Wide Skirt

Chapter 2: Under the Raft

Chapter 3: Moth and Light Bulb

Chapter 4: The Photograph Album

Chapter 5: Smash a Little Windowpane

Chapter 6: The Schedule

Chapter 7: Rasputin and the Alphabet

Chapter 8: The Stockturm. Long-Distance Song Effects

Chapter 9: The Rostrum

Chapter 10: Shopwindows

Chapter 11: No Wonder

Chapter 12: Good Friday Fare

Chapter 13: Tapered at the Foot End

Chapter 14: Herbert Truczinski's Back

Chapter 15: Niobe

Chapter 16: Faith, Hope, Love

Book 2, Chapter 17: Scrap Metal

Chapter 18: The Polish Post Office

Chapter 19: The Card House

Chapter 20: He Lies in Saspe

Chapter 21: Maria

Chapter 22: Fizz Powder

Chapter 23: Special Communiqués

Chapter 24: How Oskar Took His Helplessness to Mrs. Greff

Chapter 25: 165 lbs.

Chapter 26: Bebra's Theater at the Front

Chapter 27: Inspection of Concrete, or Barbaric...

Chapter 28: The Imitation of Christ

Chapter 29: The Dusters

Chapter 30: The Christmas Play

Chapter 31: The Ant Trail

Chapter 32: Should I or Shouldn't I?

Chapter 33: Disinfectant

Chapter 34: Growth in a Freight Car

Chapter 35: Firestones and Tombstones

Chapter 36: Fortuna North

Chapter 37: Madonna 49

Chapter 38: The Hedgehog

Book 3, Chapter 39: In the Clothes Cupboard

Chapter 40: Klepp

Chapter 41: On the Fiber Rug

Chapter 42: In the Onion Cellar

Chapter 43: On the Atlantic Wall or Concrete Eternal

Chapter 44: The Ring Finger

Chapter 45: Last Streetcar or Adoration of a Preserving Jar

Chapter 46: Thirty

