What Is The Moral Of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

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Summary The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a novel by John Boyne, is set during the Holocaust and follows Bruno, the son of a Nazi Commandant. The story begins with Bruno coming home to find the family's maid packing his room up. His mother informs him that the ‘Fury’(aka Hitler) is relocating father and his great things in mind for him. Bruno is upset because he doesn’t want to leave his 3 best friends for life, his grandparents, or the only place he has ever known, Berlin, but has no choice but to leave. Their new home, ‘Out-with,’is in a very desolate area and in the distance, there are ‘farmers’ in a fenced area all wearing the same striped pajamas. One day, while Bruno is exploring the fence(an area forbidden to him) he comes across a small boy named Shmuel. This begins a forbidden friendship that ends up with Bruno crossing over to the other side of the fence and is never to be seen again. Analysis In John Boyne's novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the most prominent moral message is the message that all children are innocent, Bruno, the main character shows this through his actions as well as relationships. …show more content…

We first see this innocence when his parents are arguing with grandmother about what fathers uniform represents and he says, “Do I look handsome in my ringmaster costume,” (BOYNE 92)as if the whole argument went over his head. We also see it while he nearing the end of his time at ‘Out with’ and he says to Shmuel, “Well if that’s the case and if I could have a pair of striped pajamas too, then I could come over on a visit and no one would be any the wiser.”(BOYNE 198) This quote shows that he so innocent, that he would risk getting in trouble to have a chance to go exploring with his new best friend for

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