Berlin‚ Germany‚ during WWII‚ from the point of view of a 9 year old German boy named Bruno. Bruno who lives at home with his parents‚ his 12 year old sister Gretel‚ and their maids‚ is also the son of a Nazi commandant. One day‚ after a visit from Adolf Hitler (German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party) Bruno’s father was promoted to commandant (The chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp). Then‚ when Bruno comes home from school‚ he discovers that their
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TALKATIVE Bruno is portrayed as talkative in the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas because when he went exploring he found a boy‚ named Shmuel on the other side of the fence he was not afraid to not only talk to him but‚ to have a bit of a conversation with Shmuel‚ although he had never met this boy before. Here is some of the conversation the two young boys carried on the first time they had met: “Hello‚” said Bruno. “Hello‚” said the boy. “I’ve been exploring‚” he said. “Have you?” said the
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Bruno and Shmuel had a spontaneous friendship and it is also an unpredictable friendship. Somewhere‚ in the beginning of The Boy in the striped pajamas Bruno decides to run through the woods and discovers a barbed wired fence and runs towards it. When Bruno makes in to the fence he finds a little boy around his age named Shmuel and decides to befriend him. Once Bruno and Shmuel started to talk a little Bruno says hello “I’m exploring” and then they discover each other’s names. Bruno and Shmuel start
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Anyone reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas has most likely heard of the horrors of the Holocaust. Eleven million people were killed during this terrible time in our history; six million of them were Jewish. This book shows the Holocaust from a perspective of two young boys ignorant of what is happening around them. The friendship between Bruno and Shumel breaks down the walls created by race and religion at a time when that seemed impossible. Despite the obvious differences of race and religion
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I. Mandatory Reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The book “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” by John Boyne is a great book and I recommend it. It tells a story about two young boys from different worlds and how they collide. Bruno’s world as a boy with a great imagination and Shmuel’s world as a boy also but who can’t dream. He’s never going anywhere in life because of what he is and he is a Jew. This book also discuss the differences in attitude among Bruno‚ Gretel‚ and their parents in
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theme from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is that fear can prevent people from doing what they want and mean to do. This theme is developed by two characters who want to help and protect each other but fear is keeping them from doing so. Bruno’s father is a Nazi officer and Shmuel is a Jew who is in a concentration camp. Their friendship is an example that no matter what kind of person someone is‚ to not let their differences get in the way of a friendship. The point of view in The Boy in the
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main characters are Bruno‚ he is a trouble maker and very adventurous. Another one is Shmuel. He is a Polish Jew‚ he is in the contrastion camp. He is very shy and one of Bruno’s best friends. Ralf is Brunos father. He is one of the commander of nazi army. He is harsh commander. Bruno is a 9-year-old boy. He lives in a huge house with his loving parents‚ his twelve-year-old sister Gretel and maidservants. His father is a high-ranking SS officer who‚ after a visit from Adolf Hitler and Eva
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The Boy In the Striped Pajamas‚ is a book about two children that were enemies‚ but at the the end‚ they became friends. Throughout the book‚ I describe Bruno as playful ‚and smart. I described Bruno as playful‚ because he loved to play with his old friends before he moved to his new house in Berlin. Once he got to his new house in Berlin‚ he didn’t have no one to play with‚ than he asked Pavel to create a swing with an old tire. Once Pavel was done with the swing‚ he started swinging by himself
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In John Boyne’s novel “The Boy In The Striped Pajamas”‚ it is proved that evil tends to arise out of the tendency of ordinary people to follow orders‚ to accept what their told by authorities‚ and to conform. The characters effectively show how influencing a conception can be by the exaggerating changes of their behavior and speech. When Bruno had asked about the people on the other side of the fence‚ his father had explained in a way Bruno could not understand. “Those people...well‚ they’re not
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The movie‚ “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚” was a very interesting but sad movie. It made me think about how children really don’t see a lot of things and how they are very innocent. The way the jews were being treated made me really upset at how things were really running like that in Germany without many countries not noticing‚ especially the United States‚ until years later when they had gone to war. But by then‚ many people had died‚ or became survivors without
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