married with a son Bruno and a daughter Gretel. The kids are unhappy about it and are confused on why they had to leave their home. When they move into the new house‚ the kids are told they are not to wonder off far from the house. One day Bruno gets bored just playing around the house‚ so he starts venturing off into the woods. He stumbles onto a fenced in area where men and boys are working. A little boy around his age starts talking to him. Bruno doesn’t understand why
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about Bruno‚ or any kids view of the holocaust. It was better that Bruno was naive about it all. The Holocaust happened back in the 1930s-1940s. Basically the German leader‚ Hitler‚ believed that the Jews and some other religious groups did not deserve to live. He built up a plan that‚ took a couple of years to execute. He took all the Jews and some others‚ and put them in a camp. They starved ‚ some to death‚ and millions were killed. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ it was good that Bruno was naive
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‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ In the novel ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ by John Boyne‚ the most important relationship is between Bruno‚ a German boy whose father is a Nazi Commandant and Jewish boy Shmuel who is a Prisoner of War kept in Auschwitz. This relationship is important to the idea of friendship across the divide. It shows that friendship can brake racial barriers‚ change peoples perspectives and get people to stick people together in all situations.
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protagonist lived in Berlin‚ but his family and himself had to move close to a death camp called Auschwitz. The time that the movie takes place is during World War II‚ between the years 1939 and 1945. The main character of the movie is a wealthy boy named Bruno that likes to make friends and play with them. Also‚ he doesn’t see things the way they are‚ he is sort of an ignorant. There are different things that can be the antagonist of the movie‚ but the main antagonists are the Nazis‚ that includes Bruno’s
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Jews that work for them but Bruno just thinks he is a farmer. Schmuel and Bruno’s friendship is forbidden so that affects Bruno because he really cares about Schmuel but can’t do anything to help him. Also at the end of the movie Bruno ends up dying because of the Holocaust.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is about an eight year old boy named Bruno who moved to a residence near Auschwitz Concentration Camp from Berlin after his father is promoted to the Commandant of the camp during World War 2. Sometime after arriving to his new “home” Bruno becomes bored without his friends and disobeys his mother’s rule against leaving the front yard. He explores hoping to find others his age. Awhile later‚ Bruno finds another child named Shmuel on the other side of a fence that surrounds
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an example of a text in which numerous interpretations from both Boyne’s intention and the readers personal context can be gathered. "The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas" is a story set in World War II from the perspective of an nine year old boy named Bruno‚ who happens to be the son of Auschwitz’s commandant. He strikes an unlikely and forbidden relationship with a young Jewish boy named Shmuel who is imprisoned on the other side of the fence‚ leading to foreshadowed and unsettling events. John Boyne
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looked to them. Bruno being so young and naïve had no idea what Shmuel was going through. For example‚ when Bruno first found the fence and Shmuel he asked if he had any friends and Shmuel responded with kind of and Bruno was jealous that he had someone to play with and that Bruno was all alone in his house. Bruno also brought up the point that no one around him had the name Shmuel or that he`s never heard of Shmuel and thought it his name was completely bizarre. Therefore showing Bruno had no exposure
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Hitlers rage for jews. Being the protagonist‚ Bruno is a naïve 8-9 year-old German boy whose father is the commandant of Auschwitz. He wants to become an explorer when an adult. Bruno is very adventurous‚ often gets into mischief‚ and hates being called "Little Man" by Lieutenant Kotler. Shmuel is a Polish Jew who is Bruno’s exact age. . Shmuel is very quiet‚ and admires animals. Gretel‚ known as "The Hopeless Case" to her younger brother Bruno‚ is a 12 year-old who loves dolls. Gretel is a show-off
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is about this boy that is called Bruno that’s 8 years old and his dad is a Nazi officer. Bruno has an older sister‚ a maid‚ 3 best friends that are called Daniel‚ Karl‚ & Martin‚ and of course a mom and a dad. Bruno and his family have to move to Berlin to a new house because his dad got promoted because he had a chance to meet the “The Fury” (Adolf Hitler) to be control of a concentration camp. Bruno had to leave to a new house and his three friends. When he gets
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