The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Narrative Essay

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Imagine waking up on a normal day, in your normal house, in your normal room. Imagine if you knew that that day, you would be taken away from your normal life, and forced to a life of death, sickness, and violence. Imagine seeing your parents taken away from you. Imagine watching your family walk into their certain death. Imagine being a survivor. Just think of the nightmares that linger in your mind. You are stuck with emotional pain gnawing at your sanity. These scenerios are just some of the horrific things that went on between 1933-1945, the time of the Holocaust. This tragic and terrifying event has been written about many times. However, this is about one particularly fascinating story called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. …show more content…

First, Boyne’s novel fits Realistic Fiction because Auschwitz’s security was very flimsy. For example, Shmuel fled to the fence to talk with his friend for hours a day! He would have never escape the horrendous roll call taken several times a day! Also, there were towers in Auschwitz with gunmen ready to shoot anybody who strayed off. Also, it says that Bruno slipped under the fence to get to the other side. The fences were dug into the ground multipe feet down. They were electrically charged and considted of barb-wire. Also, if Bruno could get under, prisoners could escape! Secondly, the two main characters, Bruno and Shmuel were completely oblivious to their surroundings. Bruno was the son of a Nazi Commander and he did not know what a Jew was! Here we have the son of a very high in command officer in Hitler’s army and he does not know what his Father absolutely dispises! He also can not pronounce Auschwitz and the Fuhrer. He says “Out-With” and the “Fury.” Also, Shmuel spoke German, and could not pick up on what the Nazis were saying. He did not understand that when people left for work and “disappeared,” they were killed. Finally and most importantly, Shmuel, the main character, would never be alive in the first place! When trains full of

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