Theme Of Lie In Au Reviir Les Enfants

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Every lie will catch up to a person eventually. In Au Revoir Les Enfants, the director Louis Malle shows this dramatically by giving each character a lie that evolves around them. Julien Quentin acts as if he is a strong kid that no one messes with, but really he is not. A cook’s helper that trades becomes a bad habit and later gets caught for doing it. Jewish people trying to hide in a school by pretending to be one of the students there. Each lie unfolds in the end and leaves a lot of people hurt, especially the character Julien Quentin. Who deep down, is a sensitive fella. The first lie was discovered by Jean Bonnet, who learned to know Julien throughout the time he was there. When Julien first meet Jean, he gave him a mean response saying, “Don’t mess with me.” From there on they were mean to each other. Until Julien discovered who Jean was and later became friends. Throughout that time, Jean really got to know who he really was. He got to meet his family. He figured out that he wasn’t all that mean and he was this sweet and caring kid. This lie isn’t as bad, but …show more content…

In this boarding school, many kept one of those secrets because the priest felt it was the right thing to do. Which in the end was not right in the German eyes. They tried their best to protect the Jews that were hidden in the school and blending in with the other children. Until they angered the cook’s helper and betrayed them by telling the Germans that they were hiding Jews within the school. So they moved in on the school searched for them. They found most of them and took them away were they were suppose to be, which was the camps they had them in. It was a sad time especially for the two main boy’s because they just became the best of friends. Now that this lie became the truth, it just all went down

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