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Told almost entirely from a young, naive German boy’s point of view, Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a hard-hitting Holocaust tale that will render audiences speechless. After arriving home, Bruno (Asa Butterfield) learns that his family will have to move because his father (David Thewlis) achieved a promotion in the Nazi army. Bruno noticed what he believed to be farmers living just past a stretch of woods near their new home. One day, not long after being told not to go near the “farmers,” Bruno leaves his home and heads towards the camp. There he meets Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a young Jewish boy. While trying to understand what is happening in the world around them, the boys become friends. While…
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The story starts off in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s. Eight-year-old Bruno and his family move to the countryside because his father was in charge of a concentration camp in Germany called Auschwitz. One day when Bruno was exploring an area that his parents said was out of bounds he came a cross a fence where a boy his age was on the other side. Bruno quickly becomes friends with this boy, Shmuel, and day after day Bruno visits him at the “farm”. Shmuel decided to tell Bruno that his father is missing and Bruno vows to help him find him. The next day the boys meet at the fence and Bruno changes into the striped pajamas that Shmuel provided and then climbs under the fence into the “farm”. As the boys search the rooms for Shmuel’s father they…
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In this story young Bruno has moved to a countryside in Germany with his family. Their house is located near a prison camp for Jewish people waiting to be exterminated. One day Bruno is exploring the area around his house when he finds himself on the fence line of the camp, here he finds Shmuel a young poor boy who is stuck behind these bars. Bruno and Shumel form a friendship which breaks through the boundaries of differences. The reason I have chosen this film/book as something I have seen in real life is because, in both of these film there is something holding one of them back. In ‘The Boy with the Striped Pyjamas’ the bars of Shmuel’s camp hold him back from his dreams of being free and happy, In Garuda di Dadaku the Grandfather is acting like the bars. He is holding back Bayu from his dreams of playing soccer and being happy. Bayu and Shmuel are both discriminated on something about them that they can’t change, Shmuel is Jewish and is put in the camp for being who he is. Bayu is poor and teased by wealthy children of the fact that he hasn’t seen things of such value e.g. soccer balls. Both Bruno and Heri are the influences in helping their friends break the boundaries and help them to reach their…
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The holocaust impacted Bruno’s life greatly. First- he had to move from his hometown because his dad is a soldier. When he gets there he has absolutely no clue what is going on in his country. In their home they have Jews that work for them but Bruno just thinks he is a farmer. Schmuel and Bruno’s friendship is forbidden so that affects Bruno because he really cares about Schmuel but can’t do anything to help him. Also at the end of the movie Bruno ends up dying because of the Holocaust.…
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The main themes of the movie that stand out the most but are certainly not limited to is, innocent and complicity. Though he attends school and his father is a high ranking Nazi official, Bruno is mostly ignorant of the political situation at the time. When Bruno leaves Berlin he wonders why he left to be near the camp full of people in striped pajamas. Another example is the fact that he has no idea what is going on in the camp or Germany and also thinks Shmuel lives in the concentration camp with his family. That is abruptly changed when he actually goes inside to look for Shmuel’s father and realizes its not like the video about the camps. Even though Bruno’s mother is not thrilled at her husband’s job, she does not actively fight his decision to move the family. Through her not protesting and like many Germans, they complied with, did not interfere or think about the harsh realities of what the Nazis are doing. Also Bruno, Gretel or the mother doesn’t do anything when Kotler beats Pavel to death, they continue to eat through…
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In the movie, “The boy in the stripped pajamas,” 8 year old Bruno has a great deal of loss of sovereignty. Set in the times of World War II, and the son of the commandant o a concentration camp, he knew little about what was really going on. Understanding that he was only 8 years of age, it was obvious to why his father kept such things from him. Oblivious to it all. Until one day, he and his family moved from their old home into more of a secluded area, not knowing less than a few feet away were…
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I felt anger. Anger arose in me when I saw that Bruno’s father was hiding the Jewish concentration camp from his family. Sadness also arose in me when Bruno was put to death by the gas chamber before his parents discovered where he was. I felt curiosity when Bruno was so interested to go on an “adventure” to discover the “farm”. I was curious to understand why he was so thrilled to go see the camp. I guess since he was so young and did not understand. I will now explain how I felt about the actions of the…
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Both the historical pieces by Jane Yolen who wrote The Devil's Arithmetic and John Boyne who created The Boy in the Striped Pajamas use the power of relationships between characters to transfer the message about the Holocaust and the barbaric nature of the events. The connection between the characters is shown on page 159 in Yolen's book when the protagonist states, “ Run for your life Rivka. Run for your future. Run. Run. Run. And remember.” The author made the relationship between the characters so strong that it showed how hard it was to be in the camps and the sacrifices you had to make for loved ones. It proves that some people in the situation during the time of the tragedy were cruel but others were really good at heart and caught in a bad situation. The novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas used the same technique as Jane Yolen, the message the reader gets through friendships. It was conveyed on page 44 when the young child Bruno states, “ Father returned to his office which was out of bounds at all times and no exceptions.” This little boy is so young and it is hard for him to comprehend why people are on the other side of the fence held hostage and why his dad is always working. Through his eyes it doesn't make sense, which is what many people think of the Holocaust, but when you're a little…
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During the Second World War the Nazis were cleansing the Jewish population of Europe. In the book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne he writes about a Jewish boy named Shmuel and a German boy named Bruno. Shmuel is a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp named Auschwitz and Bruno’s father is a high-ranking member of the Nazi forces station at Auschwitz. The two boys somehow become friends despite the stupendous odds set against each other by the German forces, "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life” (Boyne 213). This quote shows the strength Bruno has to stay with Shmuel to the end even though he is considered less equal as Bruno. When Bruno was at home talking to his father about Shmuel says, “The people I see from the window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same. Ah, those people, Those people... well, they're not people at all, Bruno"(Boyne 53). Brunos innocence is shown is this quote from him having no idea what is going on in the world at the time, and through his eyes he sees everyone as…
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Good or bad, Was it is good or bad that Bruno was naive of the Holocaust?. Bruno, a 9 year old German boy was naive about the Holocaust because Father didn’t want Bruno to know about what happens on the other side of the fence because he wanted Bruno to feel comfortable at out-with and not want to move back to Berlin because of the Holocaust which is “a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar”. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the novel because it allowed him to develop a friendship with Shmuel and it made him want to stay at Out-With instead of Berlin.…
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The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas tells the tale of the friendship between a boy in a concentration camp, Shmuel, and the son of a Nazi, Bruno. Neither is quite aware of who each other are; this childhood ignorance is a large part of what makes this movie so tragic and upsetting for many people: the boys understand hardly any of what is happening in their world. In the end, both are killed at the hands of Nazi cruelty, with the story’s moral being that all people are fundamentally similar and all violence and cruelty enacted is tragically senseless and damaging: with child’s eyes, we all see the same thing.…
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The boy in the striped pajamas was a film of sadness that also educated me even more on the life of a camp inmate. I really liked the plot of the movie and how it centered on kids, who are innocent and don’t care about another’s race, religion, or ethnicity. I liked how the relationship of Bruno and Smuel developed and how they started hanging out by the fence all the time despite their completely different upbringings and experiences. One thing I found gruesome and horrible was the way they treated the Jews and how the Germans thought of them. It had to be included in the movie and I understand that but at some points, it hit me hard and made me understand even more what those people had to go through. For example, Pavel’s beating for innocently spilling a glass of wine shows how the Jews were treated like dirt and the horror they went through. I like how Bruno was not easily influenced by the propaganda his father brought upon him because he cared more about what a person was like and how they treated him, not because of race. I think this was a great choice of a movie by Mr. Ballenger because it showed what the Jews had to go through and gave me a perspective about how lucky I am. All in All, it was a great film that was very sad but is great for people to watch in order to learn about the dreadful life of the Jews during the Holocaust.…
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