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The Boy In Striped Pajamas By John Boyne
THE BOY IN STRIPED PAJAMAS
The novel The Boy in Striped Pyjamas written by John Boyne is a novel which discovers the secret relationship behind a rich and powerful family. They lived in a huge big in Berlin, a beautiful city of Germany before they moved to a filthy house in ‘Out-With’ due to a very important job of Bruno’s father. They had a really long time living in that place and developed a relationship between Bruno and his family which they didn’t before.
Bruno and his older sister had a challenging relationship between them. They had a lot of fighting and argue all the time, from berlin till the day Bruno disappeared. They had extremely different characteristic and thoughts. Gretel is a horrible trouble maker in Bruno’s world as the “Hopeless Case” ‘Bruno thought about this and frowned. He wasn’t particularly bothered if Gretel was being sent away because she was a Hopeless Case and caused nothing but trouble for him.’(Page 6) Bruno is a kid who is lack of knowledge, really stupid, and couldn’t handle the innocent of Bruno and called him ‘stupid’ and ‘too young’ all the time. The relationship of these two siblings was really challenging, while together, as they couldn’t communicate well without any agreeing and understanding
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They didn’t have a lot of time for communicating, playing, and knowing each other in Berlin. Until they moved to ‘Out-With’ father had a lot more communication than in Berlin due to the reason of father’s job, he’s really being serious to his job, as he really cares for his job and tries his best at doing it perfectly, even when the whole family was complaining about the living environment in ‘Out-With’. ‘Back in Berlin, Bruno had been inside father’s office on only a handful of occasion, and it was usually because he had been naughty and needed to have a serious talking-to.’(Page 27) Bruno and his father don’t seem to have a good

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