What is so important about the letters that Oskar's grandmother is collecting? What is important about letters in general? As opposed to, say, emails or texts?
How could her grandmother love rivers and lakes if she had never learned to swim? Most non-swimmers would at least harbor fear -- if not hate -- of bodies of water...
What message was her grandmother trying to convey with the story of the ruby bracelet?
I found the sculpting story through the proposal to be very beautiful but tragic...I couldn't help but think of Jack and Rose in Titanic...What are your thoughts on this section? Why do you view this scene in this way?