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    What is the Film about? The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is all about a young boy called Bruno who moves house from Berlin to the country side. He moved because his Father gets a new job in the country. From Bruno’s bedroom window‚ he sees a ‘farm’; well that is what he thinks it is. But in actual fact‚ it is where his Father works. It isn’t a farm; it is a concentration camp for Jews. All of the Jews are wearing striped clothes. Bruno thinks it is their pyjamas. Later on during the film‚ Bruno

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    In the Boy in Striped Pyjamas‚ Bruno’s innocence helped the author portray the holocaust because it is his innocence that makes him unprejudiced and direct about his surroundings. His friendship with Shmuel especially helps because Shmuel is a victim of the holocaust. Bruno and Shmuel’s friendship also helped the author portray the holocaust with a little bit of positive energy as their friendship flourished even as the holocaust was happening. If it was one thing that helped readers to understand

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    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 how

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    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 Braun‚ is promoted to Commandant‚ and to Bruno’s dismay‚ the family has to move away to a place.When

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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‚ 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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    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 Striped Pajamas

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    The book I did was The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The author is John Boyne and is characterized under historical fiction. In Berlin 1942‚ Bruno returns home from school and gets the surprise that his belongings are getting packed in crates. They are moving because Bruno’s father had gotten a promotion. He moves to a place called “Out-With.” The narrator talks about the main characters: Bruno‚ Maria‚ Gretel‚ Bruno’s Mother‚ Bruno’s Father‚ and Shmuel the most with a couple background characters.

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    works in our kitchen peeling all of the vegetables. I found it really tedious with nothing to do so I decided to make a swing. To make the swing I needed some rope which was easy to find‚ and a tire which was a little trickier... I interrupted Gretel whilst she was flirting so I could ask lieutenant Kotler if he had a spare tire. After a long and boring chat he gave me one and I made my swing. Once I had finished building the swing‚ I enjoyed it really well. But then I fell and hurt my knee

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    reconstruction of the end of Richard Nixon’s final presidency‚ yet the television series showed accurate knowledge on the tense issue of history (Bernstein). The fictional fable of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas created a motion picture of a representation of the time period of the Holocaust. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas accurately represents the Holocaust and what occurred to all the Jewish Orthodox‚ yet inaccurately represents history with the impossible actions with the overall plot. During

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