He needed a narrator who could not be considered complicit in what the Nazis did, or we could not trust his voice.

As another reviewer aptly put it, he is the lonely voice crying in the wilderness

The narrator does justice to the writing and gives haunting voice to the main character

Since others take him for a toddler and he has a tantrum voice that can literally shatter glass, he manages to get his own way, remaining as an anarchic commentator on the fringes while civilization crumbles around him

With his drum Oskar can now break glass, be it may church window, his teacher's eye piece or doctor's mason jars by playing the drum or by just his shrill voice

In any case, it's for our 9 y/o grandson who loves to make noise

They were put together wrong with the C and D bells having the exact same numbered bell; obviously a mistake which needs to be corrected!