(Did they know Kurt Vonnegut?) This was a controversial action, since many people felt that Dresden was not an important military target but rather a center of art and culture in Germany. Oskar's grandparents grew up in Dresden, Germany and lived through its bombing by the US and Great Britain near the end of WWII. When it leaves, you can keep a little piece of it, but you have to let it go. The moral of the story is this: Explore something as much as you can while it's there. The citizens of New York tried to save it, so they grabbed Central Park and moved it to Manhattan before the Sixth Borough completely disappeared. People lived and loved there, but one day it started to float away. It doesn't have a name: just the Sixth Borough. Dad helps to foster Oskar's appreciation for the city through his fable about New York's Sixth Borough. Oskar's only nine, so he hasn't had a lot of opportunities to hunt down Banksy in Chelsea or find the Naked Cowboy in Times Square. But to people living there, it's just home. It's one of the most populated and diverse cities on the world, filled with arts and culture. New York City's kind of a mythical place. By venturing out into the city, Oskar literally and figuratively broadens his horizons. New York's a sprawling city of millions of people of all classes and races, and buildings and neighborhoods and bridges and tunnels. Oskar loves the Beatles, so it's only appropriate that he helps people come together once again. Even though he thinks he's just looking for a lock, his journey ends up bringing people together, changing routines, getting people out into the city, and just generally shaking things up. But it's human nature to drift apart, even after a tragedy such as this one, and by 2003, New York City has been returning to the way it was before the attacks: people constantly moving and minding their own business, thank you very much. People all over the United States, but especially people in New York City, came together after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, showing the strength of the human spirit and all that inspirational jazz.
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