Lieutenant Kotter Discrimination

The novel The Boy in the striped Pyjamas by John Boyne shows that Bruno is almost oblivious to discrimination throughout the novel. This is clearly shown when unable to detect the injustice towards the jews along with living next to Concentration camp. He could finally detect small parts of discrimination when Lieutenant Kotler Abuses his new friend shmuel in his own home.

Bruno often becomes oblivious to discrimination towards the Jews. This can be detected when Bruno can’t workout why the jews had to wear special armbands showing the discrimination towards Jews during that time. Bruno eventually can detect injustice when lieutenant Kotler beats up Pavel for “ losing his grip of the bottle somehow and it fell crashing, glug-glug-glugging its contents out directly onto the
This can identified when Bruno sees Shmuel a week later with a lot of bruising on his face and asks “what happened to you… Was it your bicycle?”. This shows his innocence because he thinks shmuel has a bike inside the death camp and along with discrimination and injustice because this shows that the Jews had very little belongings left after being placed inside the Concentration camps.It can also be seen when Bruno states “ I hate that Lieutenant Kotler. He thinks he's in charge but he isn’t.” highlighting that Bruno very much dislikes Lieutenant Kotler for all the mean and hurtful things he has done to Himself and Shmuel. This is showing that Bruno has picked up on the injustices That Lieutenant Kotler had performed. Bruno mostly can not detect discrimination Throughout the novle.

Unable to the discrimination towards the jews or inside the concentration camp and along with Being able to detect slight traces of discrimination towards his friend all show that Bruno has developed as a character. This shows that Bruno was mostly oblivious towards discrimination in the novel The Boy In The Striped