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    The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas ( written by John Boyne‚ published 2006) and Private Peaceful (written by Michael Morpurgo‚ published 2003) have been some of the most successful books‚ both of which giving insight into the happenings of war through the eyes of someone else. In The Boy in Striped Pyjamas‚ the war is seen through the eyes of a high-class young German boy named Bruno growing up at a Nazi concentration camp. In Private Peaceful however‚ we see the war through the eyes of a boy named

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    In the movie “The Boys in Striped Pajamas”‚ the father‚ Ralf‚ was a military officer who had a strong power in Nazi Germany. As a military officer‚ Ralf had been drinking the water contained various chemicals named Nazism. He also provided this kind of water to his family. He

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    Leslie Shirkey His112-C01 Christopher Holcom Due November 21‚ 2015 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Holocaust “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights‚ before the dark hour of reason grows.” – John Betjeman The Boy in the Striped Pajamas took place during the 1930s to 1940s‚ during the Holocaust. It was about a German boy named Bruno‚ who moved from Berlin out to the countryside because his father‚ a Commander‚ got a promotion. Unbeknownst to Bruno his work was heading the concentration

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    Some of these include him lying about where he was going‚ sneaking around his property and to the fence‚ lying about knowing Shmuel‚ sneaking food out to him. “One afternoon‚ as he was filling his pockets with some bread and cheese from the kitchen fridge to take with him‚ Maria came in and stopped when she saw what he was doing” (Boyne 134). The bad

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a book written by John Boyne. In the book of the boy in the stripped pajamas‚ Bruno the boy of a soldier of the German army live in the city at the first part of the book and Bruno is mad about it when he finds out that his family is being forced to move into a new house‚ because his father got a new job that requires him to live in a new house. The home is in the country. Bruno comes home one day after playing with his friends‚ And finds out that his family is moving

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    ago people had big conflicts because of some certain religions and cultures. An example of this is Anne Frank who was a Jew and suffered a conflict where she and her family were forced to go into hiding. Another example is Bruno from The Boy and The Striped Pajamas who had a conflict because he gave his best friend food‚ but the best way they responded to the conflict was taking action. These stories show how taking action is one of the best ways to respond to conflict‚ as well as others who hid

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    How can point of view and character shape the theme of the text? The theme of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is that fear can prevent people from protecting each other and doing the right thing.This theme was inferred when the book excerpt says‚ “He’d never seen anyone look so terrified as Shmuel did at that moment and he wanted to say the right thing”(47). In the story the son of an SS officer and a young boy who was a Jewish prisoner became friends‚ so when the time to protect each other came

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    accepted? Like you wouldn’t belong? A sense of belonging can come from connections made with people‚ places‚ groups‚ communities and the larger world. These connections are evident in the memoir Romulus My Father by Raimond Gaita and the novel Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. The perceptions of belonging in these texts are shaped by the detachment or connections made with people‚ culture and landscape in a historical context. Aspects of belonging may be considered in terms of experiences of identity

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    Discrimination is taught not inherit in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas In the story The Boy in the Striped Pajamas the main characters (Bruno and Shmuel) were taught to hate each other due to what society said but the characters went against society and become friends. The theme coming from the book is that discrimination is taught not inherit. The reason this is a big problem in this book is due to the fact that Bruno’s family shelters him to the point that he does not understand that the people

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    Lewis. It was about an eleven year old boy who was in a concentration camp‚ he went through a hard time but when the war was over and done with they gave him money and let him go. Another narrative on this event was about a young boy Ben and his Holocaust experience who went through a really hard time and saw things we could only imagine. One of

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