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    later these works are still being analyzed and produced‚ it is obvious the purpose was achieved. A second reason is impact. Some stories are written to change lives‚ to engender a change in view. Another purpose may be to teach‚ such as The Boy In the Striped Pajamas‚ by John Boyne. That novel was written to give an insight to the

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    Anti-Semitic material‚ speeches‚ and control of media. These kinds of propaganda were everywhere throughout the Nazi empire. Adolf Hitler wrote in 1924‚ “Propaganda is a truly terrible weapon in the hands of an expert” (Lucket 1). In the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ author John Boyne tells the story of Bruno‚ he represents those of all ages who ignored or misunderstood what was literally happening right in front of them due to propaganda that Nazis put out into the public. With all of the propaganda

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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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    Night and Boy in the Striped Pajamas Comparison Night by Elie Wiesel and the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas show two extremely interesting perspectives towards the Holocaust. Night was a non-fiction novel written by a Jewish boy who was in an actual concentration camp. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was a movie based off of a fiction novel written by John Boyne that tells the story of a Nazi soldier’s son named Bruno that befriends a Jewish boy he meets at a nearby concentration camp. Within

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    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

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    best friends simultaneously be enemies? John Boyne answers this question in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. He writes a tale about a Nazi commandant’s son who befriends another boy. They soon become best friends. Everyday Bruno the commandant’s son‚ visits Shmuel‚ a concentration camp inmate. Since Bruno’s father works for Hitler and Shmuel and his family are trapped by Hitler‚ this makes things difficult on the boys. Instead of being able to play with each other‚ like Bruno wants‚ they are separated

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Theme Analysis Several themes are portrayed throughout The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by author‚ John Boyne. From start to finish‚ the book is packed with meaningful themes. The themes in the book are friendship‚ ignorance‚ and discrimination. The themes in this book are what make it such an emotional journey from page to page. The sensitive stories in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas about the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust gives the readers a better understanding

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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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    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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    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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