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The boy in the striped pajamas is a story of an incapable friendship between an eight year old boy (Bruno) and a boy in a concentration camp (Schmuel). The promotion of Bruno's dad caused their family to move to a new house. ralf (dad) was part of the Nazi army. One day Bruno sneaked out the back window of the shack in the garden to play in the woods. He wandered the woods and incidentally found a concentration camp. On the inside of the concentration camp surrounded by barbed wire was Schmuel. Schmuel sat unhappily next to the fence. That is when Bruno first approached Schmuel. The family except the dad were not aware that they lived next to the concentration camp. Elsa was not happy when she found out about the concentration camp. Later in the movie Schmuel lost his dad and Bruno felt the need to help since he had told Lt. Katler that Schmuel was stealing …show more content…
Bruno left his clothes near the fence and dug a hole to get into the concentration camp. Schmuel supplied him clothes so he was not captured. The Nazi guards stormed the cabin and took all the prisoners into the gas chamber. The prisoners did not fight back because the gas chamber looked as if it were a shower room. Schmuel and Bruno did not survive the poisoning. There were images/scenes that I felt were very important to the movie. One scene is Pajamas were hanging outside the gas chamber which represented those who were killed in the holocaust. There was shovelest clothes on the ground near the fence which is how the mother knew Bruno was in the concentration camp. There was a scene where smoke was in the air and Elsa seen which is how she figured out that they lived next to the concentration camp. These were the most significant events of the

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