Everything is about perspective.Imagine abandoning your gorgeous house and moving into an opposite one? Bruno didn’t know that the house that they’re going was a camp for Jewish people during the holocaust. He’s stuck with his sibling and that’s Gretel that he isn’t a fan of. Therefore, what if your the solitary boy in the house besides soldiers and your father. Wouldn’t be boring? Subsequently you encounter someone, a boy, same age, but wearing striped pajamas. You'll be curious, right? That’s the life of Bruno, the young man in Auschwitz. One thing he didn’t recognize that from then one his life would be a roller coaster. ‘The boy in the striped pajamas’ incorporates one of the salient themes, and that's family. An eight-year-old kid like Bruno, considering his father away from him just to accomplish his job as …show more content…
The setting of the book was way back in the 19’s where the holocaust was the crucial part of it. It talks about how Hitler is obsessed to annihilate the Jews that most are innocent, like Shmuel. The power blinded him; he possesses that he doesn’t care if he ruins families like Maria’s. Maria the Maid came from the family of a jew, Bruno’s father the commandant decided to embrace her and work for his family as a maid. Maria, considering her family murdered by one of Hitler’s soldiers was devastating. Nevertheless, she considered to be strong and probably one of the most courageous women in the book. You would recognize how Gretel criticized the Jewish people. How she said they were the destructive ones. In fact, her Father the commandant and Hitler evil ones, even though her Father just got dragged into this mess. The European Jews are innocent specially Shmuel. ‘One day, the soldiers drag my family out of the house, and now I’m here,’ Shmuel said. A kid like Shmuel doesn’t deserve things like this. He deserves to be taken care of, not having soldiers scream at him and having people violent towards
We first see a boy with a feeling of hope and ignorance as his hometown is occupied and he’s moved into the ghetto. Then, as he’s transferred to a concentration camp, he questions his faith and slowly loses a sense of who he once was. But all of this puts him in an important position, he knows that he must share with the world what he has experienced in order to prevent a repeat of what happened in the camps. Here he is no longer ignorant of the world around him, here he experienced one of the darkest times in man's history.
Yet, one is more aware about what is taking place at these concentration camps than the other. Shmuel is dehumanized at a young age in the concentration camp. He becomes nothing but a walking corpse. While being treated like an animal, Shmuel is beaten and starved constantly. They stripped him away from his clothes and put him into a striped uniform that Bruno mistakens as pajamas. He is detached from his family, friends, and home. Bruno is under the impression that he has got it hard. Yet, do any of us actually know what it’s like to “have it hard?” Bruno was separated from his friends and home in Berlin. Although he left behind most of his childhood, Bruno stayed with his family and lived in a lovely house. He had maids and servants. Bruno was well fed and taken care of properly. One day, Bruno snuck out where he wasn’t supposed to go. He loved adventures and exploring new things. He came across a very large fence that seemed to be for animals. On the floor of the other side of the fence Bruno saw Shmuel. They talked and eventually became friends. Bruno constantly asked about the “pajamas” Shmuel and the others had to were. Bruno thought it was part of a game they played since the uniforms had numbers on them. Shmuel tried to explain that it wasn’t a game, but Bruno was ignorant about the situation. Bruno didn’t even know that his father was a Nazi soldier. He knew his father’s job was very important because that is what his parents
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...
The films The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Schindler 's List recall a dark and devastating time in history known as the Holocaust. Amid the barbaric German Nazi invasions, are where we find the main characters of these two films. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas tells the story of Bruno, a son of German Nazi soldier who befriends an inmate at a nearby concentration camp. For weeks, Bruno shares stories, food, and comforts the inmate, Shmuel, despite his parent’s orders and German upbringing. Bruno has grown up exposed to the Nazi propaganda, however his German upbringing does not create hostility or resentment toward this Jewish boy, but instead compassion. Similarly, Oskar Schindler, a German business man saved the lives of thousands of Jewish prisoners by arranging them to work in his factory. Both Oskar Schindler and Bruno did not allow neither their collective identity as Germans nor their pro-Nazi culture, to become central to their own individual identity and morals. They did not allow the constraints or “expectations of others”, in a German sense, to make them act
Bruno goes with Shmuel in the concentration camp and in the camp, Bruno finally discovers what Shmuel has to suffer. They see soldiers everywhere and very thin people with sunken eyes. Even as Bruno and Shmuel see all of this they stick together in the name of friendship and brotherhood. As they get cramped in the dark room, with light slowly closing, Bruno and Shmuel hold hands and never let go at this scene. The author's theme is clearly shown because when everyone is screaming and panicking, Bruno and Shmuel never let go of each other in the dark and eventually hug to the point where their story ends. The theme is shown because the light is used to represent time and as it fades away; Bruno and Shmuel hold hands showing their friendship and how strong it is when they never let go. The first time we see Shmuel, he is thin, pale, and sunken eyes. Bruno ask Shmuel if he wants food and Shmuel says yes, as Bruno is told time and time again that he should not be near the fence, he takes the risk and goes to it to fulfill his promise to a friend that he has only just recently
Children are not really prepared when it comes to transition into becoming adolescents. Their lack of responsibilities as children may lead to a more difficult transition, which could lead to a number of difficult years for the person. Take for instance if Bruno would have not gone into the camp and lived. He later would have realized that he lost his best friend to in the holocaust, a cause that his father was part of. This would have been very traumatizing and would have effected how he was as a person. Sometimes child’s innocence is the determining factor of how smooth the transition from being a child to an adolescent is.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, by John Boyne, significantly distorts the truth of the Holocaust in order to evoke the empathy of the audience. This response is accomplished by the author through hyperbolizing the innocence of the nine-year old protagonist, Bruno. Through the use of dramatic irony, Boyne is able to both engage and involve the audience in the events of the novel. Although it is highly improbable that a son of a German high-ranking Schutzstaffel (SS) officer would not know what a Jew is and would be unable to pronounce both Fuhrer and Auschwitz, (which he instead mispronounces as ‘Fury’ and ‘Out-with’ respectively, both of which are intentional emotive puns placed by the author to emphasize the atrocity of the events), the attribution of such information demonstrates the exaggerated innocence of Bruno and allows the audience to know and understand more than him. This permits the readers to perceive a sense of involvement, thus, allowing the audience to be subjected towards feeling more dynamic and vigorous evocation of emotions and empathy towards the characters. Fu...
Elie goes to Auschwitz at an innocent, young stage in his life. Due to his experiences at this concentration camp, he loses his faith, his bond with his father, and his innocence. Situations as horrendous as the Holocaust will drastically change people, no matter what they were like before the event, and this is evident with Elie's enormous change throughout the memoir Night.
Bruno is a 9 year old boy growing up in a loving, but typically authoritarian German family in the 1930?s. His father is a senior military officer who was appointed Commandant of Auschwitz? a promotion that requires upheaval from their comfortable home in Berlin to an austere home in the Polish countryside. The story explores Bruno?s difficulty in accepting and adapting to this change - especially the loss of his friends and grandparents. Boyne gives personality and family to the sort of person who today is generally demonised by western writings - the people who administered and controlled the death camps in which over 6 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others were deemed to be grossly inferior by Hitler and his cohorts.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Opinion Essay “Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow” -Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust is a very common topic to read and to be taught about, especially in the form of fictional books. It is usually taught to make people remember what really happened in the past so that history doesn’t repeat itself.
A lot of consideration was put into this novels appropriateness for children; it was thought parents might have to explain the Holocaust; however it was decide...
...us to see the murderous, pscycopathic event through a youth's eyes. Her belongings were stolen, people she knew and loved were killed. Her father, Otto, had connections with the military, and over time we learn that not all Jews suffered equally, and not all Germans were equally safe. The pogrom that was the Holocaust was not fair- it picked favorites.
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.