The Kittens: "Fluffy" and "Ocean"
FluffyEver have something when you were a little kid that you were kind of weirdly attached to, like a blanket, a teddy bear, or something else? Well this poor little kid had books and his kitten,...
Little Yellow Washbasin
We find ourselves wanting to say this poor kid every time we want to explain something about the narrator—he's just such a sympathetic creature with his curious nature and abject isolation. His f...
Food
It becomes pretty clear over the course of the book that one word that can be used to describe his home life is dysfunctional. Or to be fair, we could just say that to hear him describe it, his chi...
The Fishpond/The Ocean
This one's a toughie. The fishpond that Lettie refers to as her ocean could literally be the ocean of knowledge—either that or it's just one heck of a metaphor. This is the problem with books tha...