Definition: You will be given three sentences. Read them, then identify a noun phrase (person, place, or thing) or event that is shared between all three sentences. As the output, write the span of the text corresponding to that phrase in each sentence. Keep the order of the sentences, that is, your answer should look like: 1: *a phras from sentence 1e* 2: *a phras from sentence 2* 3: *a phrase from sentence 3*
Input: 1: Grass ' novel characters are the forgotten , the downtrodden and the weird , the Nobel committee said . 2: And like Oskar Matzerath , the boy in  The Tin Drum ,  they often slip into surreal situations . 3: His characters were the downtrodden , and his style slipped into the surreal .

1: Grass ' novel characters 2: they 3: His characters