To begin with‚ both the book and the movie were wonderful and I would read and watch it again‚ but the book‚ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was more worth my time than the movie. I say this because after I watched the movie I realized how much more detail the book had than the movie‚ giving it more life and character. While watching the movie after I read the book‚ I realized that the book made it easier to remember certain events‚ because I had to think more about it when I was reading the book
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The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is a book by John Boyne that was published in 2006. This book takes place during the holocaust. A little boy named Bruno‚ his mom‚ dad and sister Gretel move from their home to a new house where the father is in charge of a concentration camp. Bruno goes exploring at the new house and makes his way to the concentration camp finding a young boy‚ the same age as himself‚ named Shmuel. In 2008 a movie adapted from the book directed and written by Mark Herman‚ was made
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” by John Boyne is a story told through the innocent eyes of Bruno‚ an eight year old boy living in the era of World War II. This story focused on the very controversial events that occurred during this time period‚ such as the concentration camps and the treatment of the Jewish people. When Bruno’s father Ralf is prompted‚ Bruno’s family must move to a new home in the countryside of Berlin‚ located right next to a concentration camp.
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1) She had met Grandfather as a young woman after one of her concerts and somehow he had persuaded her to marry him despite all his flaws.(Grandmother loves Grandfather) This shows that grandfather must had really strong emotions for grandmother when they were young. I think that since their relationship had fostered from a strong root‚ Their relationship must be even stronger now. Thus‚ we can conclude that grandfather still loves and respects grandmother very much. 2) Grandmother liked to think
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A quote from the boy in the striped pyjamas “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights‚ before the dark hour of reason grows.” This quote states that when you are a kid you do not know much about reason or understand sarcasm and things like that and so the other part of the quote means that instead of reason a child understands only what they see for themselves of what people have told them. This quote is not appropriate for the film because in the film Bruno goes and see a
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everything‚ even books. Three books that I read (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ I Promised I would Tell‚ and The Diary of Anne Frank - The Play) are just some examples of commitment. Commitment effects The Boy in the Striped Pajamas because Bruno and Shmuel made promises and sacrifices to each other‚ to help each other and stay friends. (Boyne 134) Everyday‚ Bruno brought and smuggled food to his struggling friend on the other side of the fence. Bruno still brought food over to Shmuel‚ even though
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The Significance of the title‚ “Fences”‚ and how it relates to the characters. Many people tend to over look family and relationship problems. May people sit around and watch the struggles‚ the drama‚ and the happiness of relationships built and destroyed. Not many people can understand the circumstances or the thoughts of the people involved in the “tragedies’ or the “fantasy”. Troy‚ Cory‚ and Rose express the deepest problems or “fences” throughout the most of the scenes. The emotion given off
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Hossain Symbolism of the “Fence” August Wilson did not name his play‚ Fences‚ simply due to the melodramatic actions that take place in the Maxson household‚ but rather the relationships that bond and break because of the “fence”. The “fence” serves as a structural device because the character’s lives are constantly changing during the construction of the fence. The dramatic actions in the play strongly depend on the building of the fence in the Maxson’s backyard. Fences represents the metaphorical
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SUMMARY OF THE FENCE The setting is reflective of the kind of characters and the situation they would be in. The nipa huts look desolate and empty‚ reflective of how their occupants behave and feel for each other. They have no neighbors and yet the need for each other seems remote and distant. Hatred overrules. They are most afraid one of them would give way. The building of the fence seems necessary to protect themselves from each other. Hatred comes from a betrayal-- when Aling Biang
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How does Bruno grow and change in the novel‚ if at all? Bruno does grow and change in the book but slowly; it is only in the end that he truly evolves. Does he change when he moves to Out-With? And the first time he sees the camp‚ does he see it for what it is? When he meets Shmuel that’s when he really changes. The writer has Bruno change so he develops personality. This is important because you need to get to know him when you read the book. Bruno does change a little bit when
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