Differences Between The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Book And Movie

To begin with, both the book and the movie were wonderful and I would read and watch it again, but the book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was more worth my time than the movie. I say this because after I watched the movie I realized how much more detail the book had than the movie, giving it more life and character. While watching the movie after I read the book, I realized that the book made it easier to remember certain events, because I had to think more about it when I was reading the book than when I was watching the movie. Even though the movie was good and all, the director changed/took out things that made the book a great read. To start off, the book paid more attention to detail than the movie did. While reading the book
The movie is really similar to the book but there are some things that the director changed or took out that he should’ve kept the same. For example, he took out the part where Maria tells Bruno her story about why she became a maid. The director should have kept that in the movie because then the audience would’ve gotten to know her better. The director also took out the flashback that Bruno had in the book where the Fury came to visit and eat at his house because he had some things to discuss with Bruno’s father. In that flashback, the Fury came to their house to promote Bruno’s dad to Commandant which then made their family move to Out-With. That scene is very important because it gives background information on why their family had to move to Out-With. The director also changed how Bruno’s grandma died. In the book, she died from getting sick, but in the book she was sick but died in a bombing. And since the director added the bombing into the movie that made it so when Bruno’s mom wanted to leave and go back home with Gretel and him they had to go to another place rather than back to their hometown in Berlin. Which is different from the book and I didn’t like that. Another thing that changed was how Bruno got through the fence and how his parents found out he was missing. In the book, the fence wasn’t electric and Bruno just pulled it up where it was loose and slipped underneath, but in the movie, it was an electric fence and he had to dig a hole and go underneath the fence. The parents didn’t find out until lunchtime when Bruno didn’t come home but they couldn’t find him and they never found out what happened to him in the book. In the movie, they found his sandwich he made out the window in the back and they traced it back to the hole and the dad went into the camp looking for Bruno. The changes the director made I didn’t like and well since I didn’t like it then it wasn’t