Analytical Essay On The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
The story “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is about two innocent 9 year olds trying to find friendship facing the most unlikeliest odds. When Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant moves to a new house, an unfamiliar place called "Out-With" (Auschwitz), he soon becomes very lonely and misses his “Three Best Friends For Life”. After he first arrived at his new house he looked out of his bedroom window and noticed an unfriendly looking camp with barbed wire fencing and a lot of people wearing “striped pajamas”, this is where Bruno’s story begins.
After a week of being bored out of his mind he decides to make a swing and goes to Lieutenant Kotler for help getting a tire after getting some string. Upon asking him for help Kotler orders the vegetable …show more content…
peeler Pavel to help find Bruno a spare tire for his swing. Pavel was a frail old man and was very afraid of Lieutenant Kotler and the other soldiers. Bruno becomes very ashamed of asking for help once he sees how Pavel was being forced to help Bruno carry the tire that was too big for him. Once he has the tire he ties the string around it and then ties the swing to the big tree in their front yard. After everyone has left his house Bruno swings on his new swing to high and hits the tree then falling off and scraping his leg and passing out having the last thing he sees is Pavel running over to him. After Bruno woke up Pavel takes him to the kitchen table and cleans his wound. While Pavel was helping Bruno, Bruno was asking him questions about why he peeled vegetables and how he knew that Bruno would be alright. Pavel only said that he was once a practicing doctor before he came to the property. Once Bruno’s mother came home from shopping she immediately sent Bruno to his room but not after he heard his mother say “ If the Commandant asks, we’ll say that I cleaned Bruno up.” And because Bruno was too young he just thought of it as terribly selfish for her to take the credit.
A few weeks after the incident Bruno gets even more bored of his new life at “Out-With” and decides it’s time to go adventuring. When they first arrived however Bruno was told that there were some places that were “Out Of Bounds With No Expectations,” like his father’s office. Although he knows that leaving the property is breaking the rule (even though nobody has said so.) he finds that he can’t fight the temptation of exploring. While out adventuring beyond the property he comes across a boy named Shmuel who is wearing “striped pajamas,” and Bruno thinks to himself that he has never seen a sadder looking boy. When the boys first meet they discover they have many things in common, like the fact that they are the same age and share a birthday. Bruno is still very confused about one thing and so he decides to ask Shmuel “What are you all doing here?”Shmuel didn’t quite know how to answer Bruno’s question at first but after explaining what life was like before being sent to the camp he said “They took it from me.” Shmuel answered lots of Bruno’s questions after that who’s over on Shmuel’s side and what they do, most of the answers displeased Bruno and he insisted that there was a way around Shmuel’s problems. Because Shmuel is not supposed to be outside of his property he has to make their meeting short. After Bruno returns home from their first meeting he decides not to tell anybody about his new friend that way he can keep him all to himself.
As the weeks went by Bruno could tell that he wasn’t going back home to Berlin in the “foreseeable future.” But the longer he was at “Out-With” he stopped becoming unhappy about his new life.
Everyday after his classes he went to talk with Shmuel until he had to go home. Later one evening Bruno was unhappy to find out that Lieutenant Kotler was joining them for dinner. At the dinner Bruno saw Pavel who looked unhealthy, tired, and as if he would cry at a single blink. Whenever somebody needed something Pave would bring it and Bruno could tell that Pavel would soon mess up due to his weakness. While eating Lieutenant Kotler told Bruno’s family about his dad and how he had moved away to Switzerland and Brunos dad kept on questioning Kotler until it became a heated question, but then Brunos dad stopped the conversation saying “Perhaps it is not the appropriate conversation for the dinner table.” After the arguing Kotler asked for more wine for the fourth time Pavel accidentally spilt the new bottle of wine onto Lieutenant Kotlers lap, causing him to do the most unpleasant thing. Nobody stepped in to try and stop it, not even Bruno’s dad. Even though none of them could watch it made Bruno cry and Gretel pale. Bruno had a hard time sleeping that
night.
A few weeks afterwards Bruno’s father had told Bruno and Gretel that they were moving back to Berlin saying that “You’ve been here long enough as it is,” and Bruno dreaded the thought of having to tell Shmuel that he was moving. When he arrived to the fence Shmuel had a bruised eye saying “Something happened” and before Bruno could tell about him moving Shmuel was looking sad so Bruno asked him what was going on and Shmuel said his dad was missing. Upon hearing this news Bruno offered his help saying all he needed was a pair of “striped pajamas” and Shmuel jumped onto the idea.
The next day Bruno met up with Shmuel at the usual time and got to work. Bruno changed into the clothes Shmuel brought and crawled under the fence. As the boys looked around the camp Bruno started to realize that he didn’t like it there as much as he thought he would but he also didn’t want to leave Shmuels side. Right as Bruno was about to go back to the fence there was a loud whistle and ten soldiers surrounded the two boys and about a hundred people were forced into a march. Bruno was starting to get scared but then they were brought up steps and into a room. Just after Bruno told Shmuel he was his “best friend for life” the soldiers left, sealing the door behind them and turning off the lights. Despite the chaos that followed Bruno never let go of Shmuels hand.
That was the end of the two boy’s story and several days after one of the soldiers found Brunos clothes. The Commandant could not figure out what happened to his son, and Bruno’s mother did not leave to Berlin as soon as she hoped.
After a week of being bored out of his mind he decides to make a swing and goes to Lieutenant Kotler for help getting a tire after getting some string. Upon asking him for help Kotler orders the vegetable …show more content…
peeler Pavel to help find Bruno a spare tire for his swing. Pavel was a frail old man and was very afraid of Lieutenant Kotler and the other soldiers. Bruno becomes very ashamed of asking for help once he sees how Pavel was being forced to help Bruno carry the tire that was too big for him. Once he has the tire he ties the string around it and then ties the swing to the big tree in their front yard. After everyone has left his house Bruno swings on his new swing to high and hits the tree then falling off and scraping his leg and passing out having the last thing he sees is Pavel running over to him. After Bruno woke up Pavel takes him to the kitchen table and cleans his wound. While Pavel was helping Bruno, Bruno was asking him questions about why he peeled vegetables and how he knew that Bruno would be alright. Pavel only said that he was once a practicing doctor before he came to the property. Once Bruno’s mother came home from shopping she immediately sent Bruno to his room but not after he heard his mother say “ If the Commandant asks, we’ll say that I cleaned Bruno up.” And because Bruno was too young he just thought of it as terribly selfish for her to take the credit.
A few weeks after the incident Bruno gets even more bored of his new life at “Out-With” and decides it’s time to go adventuring. When they first arrived however Bruno was told that there were some places that were “Out Of Bounds With No Expectations,” like his father’s office. Although he knows that leaving the property is breaking the rule (even though nobody has said so.) he finds that he can’t fight the temptation of exploring. While out adventuring beyond the property he comes across a boy named Shmuel who is wearing “striped pajamas,” and Bruno thinks to himself that he has never seen a sadder looking boy. When the boys first meet they discover they have many things in common, like the fact that they are the same age and share a birthday. Bruno is still very confused about one thing and so he decides to ask Shmuel “What are you all doing here?”Shmuel didn’t quite know how to answer Bruno’s question at first but after explaining what life was like before being sent to the camp he said “They took it from me.” Shmuel answered lots of Bruno’s questions after that who’s over on Shmuel’s side and what they do, most of the answers displeased Bruno and he insisted that there was a way around Shmuel’s problems. Because Shmuel is not supposed to be outside of his property he has to make their meeting short. After Bruno returns home from their first meeting he decides not to tell anybody about his new friend that way he can keep him all to himself.
As the weeks went by Bruno could tell that he wasn’t going back home to Berlin in the “foreseeable future.” But the longer he was at “Out-With” he stopped becoming unhappy about his new life.
Everyday after his classes he went to talk with Shmuel until he had to go home. Later one evening Bruno was unhappy to find out that Lieutenant Kotler was joining them for dinner. At the dinner Bruno saw Pavel who looked unhealthy, tired, and as if he would cry at a single blink. Whenever somebody needed something Pave would bring it and Bruno could tell that Pavel would soon mess up due to his weakness. While eating Lieutenant Kotler told Bruno’s family about his dad and how he had moved away to Switzerland and Brunos dad kept on questioning Kotler until it became a heated question, but then Brunos dad stopped the conversation saying “Perhaps it is not the appropriate conversation for the dinner table.” After the arguing Kotler asked for more wine for the fourth time Pavel accidentally spilt the new bottle of wine onto Lieutenant Kotlers lap, causing him to do the most unpleasant thing. Nobody stepped in to try and stop it, not even Bruno’s dad. Even though none of them could watch it made Bruno cry and Gretel pale. Bruno had a hard time sleeping that
night.
A few weeks afterwards Bruno’s father had told Bruno and Gretel that they were moving back to Berlin saying that “You’ve been here long enough as it is,” and Bruno dreaded the thought of having to tell Shmuel that he was moving. When he arrived to the fence Shmuel had a bruised eye saying “Something happened” and before Bruno could tell about him moving Shmuel was looking sad so Bruno asked him what was going on and Shmuel said his dad was missing. Upon hearing this news Bruno offered his help saying all he needed was a pair of “striped pajamas” and Shmuel jumped onto the idea.
The next day Bruno met up with Shmuel at the usual time and got to work. Bruno changed into the clothes Shmuel brought and crawled under the fence. As the boys looked around the camp Bruno started to realize that he didn’t like it there as much as he thought he would but he also didn’t want to leave Shmuels side. Right as Bruno was about to go back to the fence there was a loud whistle and ten soldiers surrounded the two boys and about a hundred people were forced into a march. Bruno was starting to get scared but then they were brought up steps and into a room. Just after Bruno told Shmuel he was his “best friend for life” the soldiers left, sealing the door behind them and turning off the lights. Despite the chaos that followed Bruno never let go of Shmuels hand.
That was the end of the two boy’s story and several days after one of the soldiers found Brunos clothes. The Commandant could not figure out what happened to his son, and Bruno’s mother did not leave to Berlin as soon as she hoped.