The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a very interesting book with a lot of themes that take place all throughout the book. The book is about the Holocaust, which can be a very sorrowful but substantial topic that is based not only on religion but it can also have to do with some innocent people, which affected nearly all of the world. I think that one of the themes is, when you are a kid, you can be innocent and even ignorant. This themes definitely has really started to develop. Bruno can be so senseless at times. Sometimes he even blurts things out, especially if he doesn’t know what they mean. This can make him ignorant. In summary, he is just a carefree, innocent child with a big imagination. In chapter one, Bruno’s pure innocence starts …show more content…
In Chapter Seven, Bruno tells Mother about Pavel, the Jew, helping him clean up. “I made a swing and then I fell off it...Pavel came out and brought me in and cleaned it all up and put a bandage on it…” (pg. 84 Book) Mother wants to take credit for what Pavel did so he doesn’t get in trouble.What if it would have been Father that walked in and not Mother who was forgiving? Father works at Auschwitz which is a concentration camp mostly for the Jews. In other words, Father is Commandant of the Nazis who kill Jews. If he would have found out that Pavel had even touched Bruno he probably would have killed him. This helps develop the theme because it shows how Bruno doesn’t understand why Mother punished him for telling the truth about Pavel. He thinks that she is be selfish for taking credit for what Pavel did to help. He also doesn’t understand why Mother doesn’t the Commandant (Father) to know about it. This ties into my life because when I was less than a year old I used to run around my house saying a lot of random words that I had heard, but I did not always know how to pronounce them. For example, broccoli was bocci and Disney was Dinney. This was just because I was innocent and it did not cause any harm to anybody, but I was just blurting things out kind of like
Bruno was very built and had a very large physique, which people found threatening and scary. He looked much older than even one as if he was in junior high. His hair was sleeked back and was very dark and oily with a large neck and shoulders. Even though he had this big overpowering body he let it be known to every one with the cloths he wore. He showed he was tuff, and muscular though those cloths. Bruno also had a scare one his forehead that rumors say he got when a pot of boiling water in a pan hit him. They think he may have pulled it and it fell or his mom dropped it. Through this large stature one might see how he was probably made fun of and harassed.” He spoke English with a strong accent, musical, yet people mocked him and embarrassed him silently”(1201). Written by Joyce Carol Oates the write of the Hostage. This lowered his self a steam that he held in anger and used it to hold himself hostage with in.
While he is there in the camp he sees and experiences many traumatic events, as well as him being the only one out of his family to survive. In the film “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” Bruno is a nine year old German boy who experiences World War ll outside of a concentration camp his father runs. When Bruno gets curious he befriends a Jewish boy inside the camp and decides to come into the camp to help the boy find his father. Bruno and his Jewish friend end up being sent to the gas chambers and die. Both accounts of the Holocaust share many similarities and differences.
Bruno continues to explore the woods near his house and often finds himself at the fence spending time with Shmuel. Bruno brings him food, and the friends lament the fact that they cannot explore together or play a game of football. Shmuel confides in Bruno that he is unable to find his father and he is worried.
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
One day when Shmuel gets sent to shine glasses at his house him and Bruno start talking. A soldier see them and Bruno told him he didn’t know who he was, and the soldier beats the boy, Bruno feels terrible and want to make it up to Shmuel. Bruno wants to understand why the life behind the fence is so awful and why Shmuel isn’t happy. Bruno thinks it’s not better, but interesting because there are other kids to play with. They form a strong bond that can't be broken by anything and it makes him realize that his friends in Berlin weren't as special as Shmuel is and their friendship. The two boys have been talking and have been friends for about a year and decide that Bruno wants to go on the other side of the fence to see what its like and help him find his papa.
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...
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne is a fictional/historical novel has been A New York Times Bestseller and been given the Bisto book of the year award of 2006. This Book is about the Holocaust and how the jews were treated during this time period though the eyes of a young nine year old boy who is the son of a nazi commander. John Boyce has written many other Historical books including The House of Special Purpose and Stay Where You Are Then Leave.
Pavel’s recurring kindness and openness to the mother allowed the mother to move forward but with the removal of Pavel her crutch is snatched from her and she falls. When the gendarmes arrived it is made clear that “this time the affair was not [as] terrorizing to her” (pg. 74). With Pavel’s arrest the mother was stronger in her understanding of the truth. She knew that it was necessary, but her strength did not last. “When the police had led Pavel away, the mother sat down on the bench, closing her eyes began to weep quietly” (pg. 75). The mot...
well, they're not people at all, Bruno.". In this quote, we see Bruno does not see Jews as terrible people up to this point because he has to ask his father about the people in striped pajamas, showing us the innocence of Bruno. This quote also shows us what Bruno's father thinks of Jews and the realization of what Bruno thinks of jews. This is because he has a pause in between “people” and “well”, showing his confusion and realization of Bruno not knowing what he thinks is reality, that being, Jews are unacceptable. Eventually, his father hires a tutor, Herr Liszt, to teach him about nationalistic ideas proven by what is said on page 97, “Those things are useless to you….. A sound understanding of the social sciences is far more important in this day and age.” and about the Jews, “Then this is what I am here to change…..To get your head out of your storybooks and teach you more about where you come from. About the great wrongs that have been done to you.” said on page 98. Bruno is skeptical of Herr Liszt
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is one of many movies exemplifying the stories of the Holocaust, but this time it has a little twist. Bruno, son of a Nazi soldier, moved along with his mother, father, and sister to a new home near one of the Nazi concentration camps. Bruno believes that the concentration camp is a farm and all the workers wear striped pajamas. He eventually learns it is a camp, but he thinks it is a fun camp only for Jews after he sees a propaganda video. Previously seeing the propaganda video, Bruno befriends one of the children, whose name is Shmuel, and visits him almost every day.
The father was too enamored with his position as the Commandant to pay any attention to his son. His position as Commandant enabled him to give the order that killed his son. Bruno’s father was responsible for the family moving to Auschwitz, which sparked a chain of events that ultimately caused Bruno’s death. The father was responsible for Bruno’s death in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Now they will be seen through their acts of kindness. Kotler is a very insolent character. Bruno asked Kotler if he could have a tyre, so Kotler yelled at Pavel and he “spoke to him insolently, despite the fact that he was young enough to be his grandson”. (Boyne 76). This quote is stating that Kotler can be really nasty and insolent towards jews such as Pavel. But unlike Kotler, Pavel is a kind hearted man. During this scene, Pavel put Bruno on a chair inside the kitchen when he watched Pavel “pulling the first aid kit from a cupboard and filling a small bowl of water, testing it first with his finger to make sure that is wasn’t too cold. ‘Will I need to go to hospital?’ asked Bruno. ‘No, no,’ said Pavel when he returned to his kneeling position, dipping a dry cloth into the bowl and touching it gently to Bruno’s knee, which made him wince in pain, despite the fact that it wasn’t really all that painful.” (Boyne 45 (online version)). This quote proves that Pavel is a kind hearted man because once he saw the accident happen, he stopped what he was doing to help Bruno since he was injured. In John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, we have seen that foils have appeared throughout this entire book. As one of the many possible foils Lieutenant Kotler and Pavel have been shown through their differences such as strength, bravery and kindness, as this essay has just
The movie, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, tells a story about a German nine year old boy that befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The story takes place in Nazi Germany during World War II around 1940. The story line is in chronological order with no major flashbacks. During this time period, Adolf Hitler brought the economy down. At this time, Germany was trying to recover from WWI.
‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ is a 2006 novel by Irish novelist John Boyne; this is his fourth novel, and the first he has written for children. My classmates and I have read the book and watched the trailer of its newly releasing movie. And I have to say, this novel is really remarkable. The novel truly engages the reader completely into the book and it’s difficult to put down. “Believe me”!!.......the trailer is all the more brilliant, with a high standard quality and exceptionally mind capturing images.
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" explores the beauty of a child's innocence in a time of war: