The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Literary Analysis

Everyone needs to treat people the way the want to be treated. In the book The Boy In the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, Bruno and his family move from Berlin to auschwitz when Bruno's dad needs to work there. Behind their house is a concentration camp that Bruno can see from his window. One day Bruno went to explore by the camp and found a jewish boy Schmuel. Bruno and Schmuel became best friends even though all they did was talk. John Boyne used description to get readers predicting throughout the story.
John Boyne uses description to get readers predicting throughout the beggining. To begin with, on page #30 Bruno said “ There were small boys, big boys, father, grandfather perhaps uncles too in striped pajamas. This quote describing what kind of people live there can make readers predict what time in history it is and what those people are doing in a camp. Furthermore, on page #31 about twenty feet further along from the garden and flowers was a huge wire
First, “Schmuel reached down and lifted the base of the fence but it only lifted to a certain height and Bruno had no choice but to crawl under it,.” When Schmuel was lifting up the fence to get Bruno under and into the camp. Readers can predict that they will not find Schmuel’s dad because he is dead and the boys might get hurt by soldiers while exploring for what they came for. Second, on page #212-213 Bruno and Schmuel went inside a room holding hands after being in a line with people in striped pajamas heading to a dark room with no light then the book suddenly ends. When John Boyne described this intense ending of them holding hands and going into a dark room with other people it can get the readers predicting they are in danger and will get killed by the soldiers that brought them in. In the end, John Boyne uses description to get readers predicting about what will happen to Schmuel and Bruno when they enter the