Essay On The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

Imagine that one simple mistake you make could mean the difference between your life and death? The cruel realization of this comes into play in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, when Bruno, a nine year-old German boy meets Shmuel, a nine year-old Jewish boy at a concentration camp called, “Auschwitz.” Bruno, who is a very naive little boy stuck in the Holocaust, doesn’t understand what’s going on around him. As soon as he leaves the safety of his home and the guidelines of his in-command parents, a whole universe of trouble goes his way. With this new setting and new surrounding, Bruno starts to slowly realize that there is much he has to learn about the world. Sadly, he is in a place of death and destruction. Because of his new life, Bruno starts to grow and mature which is why he can be considered a dynamic character. As the story kicks off, Bruno lives in a ginormous home in Berlin, with five floors and a banister that stretches from top to bottom. He doesn’t have a care in the world, and has “plans” with his friends Karl, Daniel, and Martin. Coming from a rich part of a rich city, he ends having to move for his Father’s work. His Father is a very high ranking Nazi official, and they have to move to Poland to take over control of Auschwitz. He sees part of the camp through his bedroom window, “And one final thought came into her brother’s head as he watched the hundreds of people in the distance going about their business, and that was
He will break the rules and go out there, go out and explore, go out and find out what his parents are hiding from him. He will grow and mature at his year at Auschwitz and was his last one as well. Sadly, it is a change for the worse, and that is why Bruno is a dynamic