Exploring Life and Decisions: The Boy in Striped Pajamas

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Anyone looking for a book without any letdowns will surely find The Boy in Striped Pajamas (216 pages) an incredible read. John Boyne’s creative, different writing styles pull in readers left and right in a story about a boy during WWII. Our character makes many different choices that take him down different paths of life which connects to a very dramatic ending. Bruno, a young nine year old, believes his sister, Gretel, is the biggest problem he’ll ever have to face in his life but soon learns the world is a much bigger place. His father works as an officer for Hitler’s Germany so the family needs to move to different places to ensure father’s work. Bruno’s problem is that in Berlin, where he lives currently, he has his friends, family, and …show more content…

It was very well written and the events toward the end of the book were very capturing, but the beginning the book was dragged out and some parts were unnecessary. The author’s writing style was extremely captivating because he used an innocent tone. Most stories usually have a “default tone” or nothing that catches your attention but because of the innocence not everything was told straight forward and as a reader you would have to interpret the book and actually pay attention to what’s happening. If you’re into WWII or have an interested in the Holocaust and what it may have been like from the point of view of a kid from Germany this is definitely the book for you. This book has taught me many things about WWII, the Holocaust, and Hitler’s Germany. I have always been interested in WWII but never found the motivation to actually learn about it. Also I didn’t really know anything about the Holocaust besides that many Jews were killed but now I know that it’s much more than that. People definitely suffered and couldn’t do anything about it because they would just be killed just like that, no second thought. This book was definitely worth reading because it’s not even a long book and you get to learn so much about history and the story is very

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