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    Friendship shapes the world‚ without friendship how would people connect with others? A boy named Bruno had three best friends in his little town in Germany‚ he cared for them miraculously as if they were the only people he had‚ but now everything is going to change for Bruno. Bruno is in a novel called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. In the novel‚ Bruno has to move away from his friends to a home that’s gated up from all sides called Auschwitz and is pretty much in the middle of nowhere

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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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    “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 is a brutally honest glimpse of what life was like during World War II through the perspective of an innocent‚ bright blue eyed little boy. The movie is directed by Mark Herman‚ and was released on November 7th‚ 2008. It contains multiple outstanding actors and actresses including Asa Butterfield‚ Zac Mattoon O’Brien‚ and Vera Farmiga‚ who was also in the

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    the book‚ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ written by John Boyle‚ tells a story about two boys‚ Bruno and Shmuel‚ finding friendship in most unlikely situation. As the book goes on‚ Bruno and Shmuel started to care for each other‚ started to talk to each other‚ and explore together‚ but it didn’t go as planned. Bruno and Shmuel realized that they can’t tell anyone about their friendship or they’ll be in big trouble. One day‚ Bruno found a blob that turned into a figure that turned into a boy sitting

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    The Boy In The Striped Pajamas‚written by John Boyne is a historical fiction novel set in the 1940’s ‚during the time of Hitler’s regime.The book is about a young boy named Bruno who moves from his luxurious life in Berlin‚Germany to horror-filled Poland because of his father’s job.Even though Bruno is not allowed to go near the people in the striped pajamas‚he goes to the fence and sees a boy on the other side of it.He befriends the boy‚named Shmuel and brings him food every day and talks to him

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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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    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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    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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    educated in the early age. Even with an overprotective mother‚ Elsa‚ Little Bruno must have seen the inequality in Berlin such as benches at the park labeled as “Aryans only” and the Jews being rejected from using streetcars in Berlin. As a German boy‚ Bruno must have witness the scene of “der Führe”‚ the leader‚ passing the city with their expensive car. However‚ it is the opposite with Bruno‚ instead of acknowledging the Nazi activities‚ he is utterly impractical about what is happening in Germany

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