The Tin Drum The Home Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #10

Today I am thirty, my trial will be reopened, the expected acquittal will force me back on my feet, riding trains, trams, exposed to those words: Better start running, the Black Cook's coming! Ha! Ha! Ha! (46.15)

At the end of the book, Oskar worries that he'll be found innocent of murder. Yeah, you heard right. He likes it in the mental institution and doesn't know what he'll do if he's forced back out into the everyday world. It's pretty sad that the institution might be the closest thing Oskar now has to a true home.