The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Essay

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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

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