Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Bruno can you help me find my Papa,” Shmuel (BSP). A nine year old, named Bruno lives in Berlin, with his sister, mom, and Dad. His father is a high ranked soldier during the Holocaust. They move to “Out-With” for his work. Bruno and his sister Gretel don’t have any friends there when they make the move. They live by a concentration camp, but Bruno doesn’t know it. Throughout the novel Bruno tries different things to keep him from being bore. Then he decides to go to the fence, and finds a boy named Shmuel. Shmuel lives in the concentration camp, and has a story that he shares to Bruno, which Bruno doesn’t fully believe. Towards the end Shmuel lost his father… In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the novel because it allowed him to develop a friendship with Shmuel, and Bruno might have been scared of what was going on.
Bruno developed a friendship with Bruno throughout the book, but that might not have happened if he knew about the Holocaust. Bruno might not have
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Bruno and Shmuel really got to get to know each other throughout this book because of Bruno not knowing about the Holocaust. They shared a lot about themselves, mostly without hesitating. Which was the main part of the story. Also, Bruno, when they moved to Out-With he wasn’t scared of the people on the other side of the fence. He actually wanted to play with the kids. Although Bruno didn’t like the move at first, he started to get comfortable and like it there. Furthermore, it was good that Bruno was naive for these reasons. If this wasn’t the case Bruno might have been one of the most miserable nine year old ever. He was naive, which is what both of his parents wanted,
While the adults show their disgust and hatred to the Jews, Bruno doesn't mind them and is nice to Pavel, the Jew that got him the tire, and later becomes friends with Shmuel. Bruno’s father is a soldier and is in charge of the concentration camp. Even with all the Jew hating Germans around him, he still goes out to visit Shmuel and doesn’t let them ruin his friendship. Near the end of the movie Bruno shows his friend how much he cares by entering the camp to help look for Shmuel’s father, who had gone missing. While entering the camp, Bruno learned first hand how bad the camps actually were and wished he hadn’t come. Even with these feelings he still wants to help his friend, which eventually leads to his demise.
The overall storyline of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was the same, but in the movie there was a lot of detail lef tout. The movie is more basic and doesnt have as much detail about the characters feelings/emotions. Overall, Bruno learned that curiousity kills, and his family learned to be responsible and not take things
This made it stronger because now he thinks that he should support Shmuel in his hard time. After the incident with the officer, Bruno thought of doing something or helping Shmuel so that he could get his only friend back and his trust. When he was wondering how he could help, Shmuel told Bruno how his dad was missing, that’s when Bruno thought of helping Shmuel. When he got into the camp he felt like giving up and going back but, when he saw that his friend was sad because of the decision, he decided to stay and search for him.
Max, The Book Thief and Shmuel, Boy in the striped pajamas, are two Jews unfortunately living through the terror. Although they are both Jewish, they show two different views of the war that change their characters. Max, is a young man who lives life in the basement of the Hubermanns household, and develops a strong relationship with Liesel during his stay. He thoroughly understands the war, as he dreams about boxing Hitler and writes stories about Hitler and his power. Max fortunately understands the life he has, and he sees the war as a never-ending nightmare of hate and fear. His view sees Hitler as a bad guy, for taking away his family and friends from him, as well as putting him in a position of
developments that were taking place and Bruno's Father as the misuse of power towards the
When Bruno moved to Auschwitz he was completely oblivious to the Holocaust. When he met Shmuel, he became slightly more aware, but couldn’t comprehend what it all meant. It is ironic that his innocence sheltered him from the traumatizing truth of the Holocaust, but it is what killed him in the
The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne is about a young boy, Bruno, whose father is a soldier in the German army during WWII. Bruno lives with his parents and his older sister, Gretel. They live in a five story house in Berlin. He goes to school and has three best friends that he goes on adventures with. One day he comes home to find their maid packing his things. They move to a three story house in Germany because his dad was promoted and needs to be closer to his work.
In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, a young naive boy, Bruno, tells from his perspective how the occurrences in the Holocaust took place. In 1943, the beginning of the story, Bruno’s father, a commandant in Hitler’s army, is promoted and moves to Oswiecim with his family. Oswiecim is home to the hideous Auschwitz Concentration Camp. While Bruno is out playing near a fence at the edge of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, against his father’s orders, he becomes friends with a young Jewis...
(Boyne 31) That same day Bruno began to reveal what was inside the fence, it was people, not like Bruno though, they wore the same striped clothes that were grey striped pajamas with a grey striped cap on their heads. Boyne 38: These people lived in huts that are only one floor and are very close together with barely any room to go where you wanted without being found. Such as when Bruno asked his father who the people on the other side of the fence were. Bruno’s father answered with “Those people.well, they’re not people at all Bruno.” (Boyne 53)
Sitting on the other side is another eight-year-old, Shmuel (brilliantly played by Scanlon). The pair get talking and, soon enough, Bruno becomes a regular visitor to the fence. Until that heartbreaking conclusion.
...dship even in the darkest and devastating of endings. The interpretation of Bruno and Shmuel’s bond in the film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is fundamental in understanding the significant theme of love and friendship.
In my opinion, the most major inadequacy in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is how John Boyne made Bruno so naïve for his age. He never really knew why Shmuel was on the other side of the fence. In the book, Bruno asked his sister, Gretel, “‘Are we Jews?’” (Boyne 182). This shows that Bruno had very little knowledge of what was really happening in Auschwitz and all around the world. Boyne had also made Bruno use a very shameful and inappropriate term in his book. Instead of “Auschwitz”, Bruno called it “Out-With”. After Boyne had added this term into his book, I felt as though he took Bruno’s naïvete way too far.
Bruno is irritated and shocked when he’s told they’re moving from Berlin but being a very naive boy doesn’t understand why their family has to leave. The story follows on as Bruno sets out from his house in Auschwitz to explore and finds a boy the same age as him sitting on the ground, on the other side of a fence. His name is Shmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp, but Bruno believes the camp is just a farm. Their friendship cements but is separated by a barbed wire.
Bruno, an eight year old boy at the time of the war, is completely oblivious to the atrocities of the war around him - even with a father who is a Nazi commandant. The title of the book is evidence to this - Bruno perceives the concentration camp uniforms as "striped pajamas." Further evidence is the misnomers "the Fury," (the Furher) and "Out-With" (Auschwitz). Bruno and Shmuel, the boy he meets from Auschwitz, share a great deal in common but perhaps what is most striking is the childhood innocence which characterizes both boys. Bruno is unaware that his father is a Nazi commandant and that his home is on ther periphery of Auschwitz. Shmuel, imprisoned in the camp, seems not to understand the severity of his situation. When his father goes missing, Shmuel does not understand that he has gone to the gas chamber.
He pronounces Auschwitz and ‘Out-With’, has no idea that there is a war raging around him, and doesn’t know the difference between Jews and himself. A nine year old boy, son of a Commandant, should not be in the dark to this extent. One would be asking questions, putting two and two together, and simply just smarter. Asked about this, Boyne explains, “I feel...that Bruno’s innocence and ignorance are not only crucial to the story, but but appropriate… [at] times, to.”