The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas Propaganda
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
1) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a very emotional book that shows the life and friendship of two boys. One is a Jew, Schmuel, in a Nazi concentration camp during World War 2 and the other is the son of the newly appointed Kommendant of Auschwitz concentration camp, Bruno.
Some of the themes covered in the book are Bruno being bombarded with propaganda and his family breaking down throughout the course of the book. This book also shows how little the Germans understood about what was happening during the war.
The writer has chosen to show Bruno trying to be brainwashed by propaganda because he is trying to show that during the war the Nazi’s believed that propaganda was a vital tool in achieving their goals. The Nazi’s decided to brainwash the civilians with …show more content…
Also once Bruno’s father realized what happened to him he became a wreck and this might be the author trying to communicate how that the Nazi’s could not understand what they were doing until it happened to them. 7) The 2 symbols were the swastika and the Star of David. The swastika was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1920. After Hitler’s rise to power in 1930 the swastika was incorporated into the Nazi party flag, which made it the state flag of Germany. The swastika is a historical sacred symbol in Indian religions. It first appears in the archaeological record around 2500 BC. The swastika remains a core symbol of Neo-Nazi groups.
The Star of David is a recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism. It is the shape of a hexagram, a compound of two triangles. One triangle represents the ruling tribe of Judah and the other the former ruling tribe of Benjamin. It is also thought that the 12 sides of the triangle could represent the 12
1) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a very emotional book that shows the life and friendship of two boys. One is a Jew, Schmuel, in a Nazi concentration camp during World War 2 and the other is the son of the newly appointed Kommendant of Auschwitz concentration camp, Bruno.
Some of the themes covered in the book are Bruno being bombarded with propaganda and his family breaking down throughout the course of the book. This book also shows how little the Germans understood about what was happening during the war.
The writer has chosen to show Bruno trying to be brainwashed by propaganda because he is trying to show that during the war the Nazi’s believed that propaganda was a vital tool in achieving their goals. The Nazi’s decided to brainwash the civilians with …show more content…
Also once Bruno’s father realized what happened to him he became a wreck and this might be the author trying to communicate how that the Nazi’s could not understand what they were doing until it happened to them. 7) The 2 symbols were the swastika and the Star of David. The swastika was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1920. After Hitler’s rise to power in 1930 the swastika was incorporated into the Nazi party flag, which made it the state flag of Germany. The swastika is a historical sacred symbol in Indian religions. It first appears in the archaeological record around 2500 BC. The swastika remains a core symbol of Neo-Nazi groups.
The Star of David is a recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism. It is the shape of a hexagram, a compound of two triangles. One triangle represents the ruling tribe of Judah and the other the former ruling tribe of Benjamin. It is also thought that the 12 sides of the triangle could represent the 12