The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Literary Analysis

In the movie The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne there are a lot of dramatic ironies. Some include the mother and the young boy Bruno. The first very big dramatic irony is the little boy Bruno. Bruno as a character slowly develops by more or less develops into the world as a naïve little boy who can’t see something that’s clearly right in front of him. The young boy is forced away to move from his family and friends to some weird house out in the country side. That’s the first mistake Bruno should have recognized that something was up. The second huge mistake he made when getting to the new house is looking out of his bedroom window what he saw was a “farm” but in turn was really a Jewish work camp that is father is in charge of. Now as the plot slowly starts to thicken you see the cute young innocent sister who loves to play with baby dolls but then she is basically so called

At this point in the movie and book you think Bruno would slowly start to recognize the signs that maybe something is up here but Bruno never does even all the way up to his death. The movie progress and there are more Hitler army men coming to the family home at this point this is where I would start to recognize something is not right with this situation here. The family gets a Jewish “servant” who you can tell is sick and starving. Bruno falls of a swing and the servant bandages up his scraped knee. This is the 3rd form of irony. Bruno gets to talking with the Jew and he learns that the servant was once a doctor and now is potato peeler. For me that would have drew the line I would have known something was up. Bruno does not. As the story moves along this is where the 4th form of irony comes into play. Bruno sneaks out and just runs through the woods and stumbles across the “farm”. He meets a young boy names Shmuel through the fence. They have conversations and you slowly start to realize the Bruno utterly has to be