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    Both Boyne and Innocenti deliberately represents horrendous events through their texts to present enduring ideas to the audience. Through The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Rose Blanche‚ Boyne’s myriad of characters and Innocenti’s character Rose‚ the audience is challenged to question their complacency with injustice. Furthermore‚ by the use of various notions‚ such as the use of metaphorical and literal barriers‚ as well as how we learn hatred and prejudice‚ the audience is challenged to critique

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    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne Charakters Bruno – He is a nine year old boy from Berlin that moves to Poland because his father is the Military Commandant and they have to go and live by a concentration camp that the Jews are being held captive‚ but he is still confused and not sure why he is there. He is very curious and loves going on new adventures and discovering new things. He has a twelve year old sister names Gretel that is always in his business‚ she thinks that she knows what

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    carried on by force of arms‚ where the only outcome is the devastation and suffering of those affected. Destroyed families‚ struggling to carry out their shattered lives as a result of the loss of their loved ones continue to bring them down. ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ by John Boyne clearly illustrates this through the physical‚ psychological and social impacts the war has on the protagonists Due to the destructive nature of war‚ the suffering victims are left with a profusion of calamitous adversities

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    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: The Verdict The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno‚ the eight year old son of the commandant at a concentration camp. This movie was again probably the top 5 of the best movies we have seen all year. It did a brilliant job of representing how gruesome it was for even German families‚ especially for the kids we are never really told what is going on but instead taught to hate and despise anybody that isn’t Aryan. Since this

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    About A Boy chapter summaries 1. Marcus intro- relationship with mum/splitting up with Roger. 2. Will intro- How cool Will thinks he is/visits John and Christine/not fit to be a godparent. 3. Marcus- fears and insecurities/bullied at school/singing in class. 4. Will- meeting Angie/begins his interest in single mothers. 5. Marcus- mum’s (Fiona) depression/isolated at school- other misfits don’t like negative attention Marcus brings. 6. Will- SPAT/the hunt for single‚ attractive mums/pretending

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    John Boyne uses narrative voice and a variety of other literary devices to convey the main ideas of prejudice and discrimination‚ power of friendship and innocence in his novel “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (BITSP)”. Boyne’s novel portrays the story of a young German boy in Nazi Germany who befriends a Jewish child residing in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The author explores prejudice and discrimination‚ power of friendship and ideas of innocence in his novel. Boyne uses third person limited

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    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 1. My reaction to the boy in the striped pyjamas was that it made me feel a little scared about the future because something like this may happen again. I liked all the messages in the story that were inferred to the reader. Some of these were messages about how horrific it must have been for the Jewish people. Other messages implied that the Jews are still human and are really no different apart from their beliefs. My emotions changed by making me think

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    “The Boy in Striped Pyjamas” is an historical-drama film based on a novel by John Boyne of the same name. This film is set during the Holocaust in World War II and revolves around two eight year old boys‚ but the contrast being that one is the son of a Nazi commandant of a Nazi Concentration Camp‚ and the other being a Jewish prisoner in an concentration camp‚ Bruno(Asa Butterfield) and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon) respectively. This wonderful film is directed by Mark Herman and is produced by David Heyman

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    In the book bad boy‚ Walter Dean Myers talks about his family background. In chapter one‚ Walter discussed his feelings about having no feelings for Mary Dolly Green because she died during the birth of my younger sister. Roots‚ the title of chapter one helps us to understand Walter’s background Even though Mary Dooly Green was Walters birth mother‚ he considered Florence Dean‚ his father first wife‚ his real mother. Walter had several family members that lived in this house. My father was now raising

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ written by John Boyle is a fictional novel of the unlikeiest of friendships‚ the son of a Nazi commandant and a Jew suffering in the largest concentration camp. I believe innocence that is created by a sheltered and caring family is an important theme of the novel. Bruno was unaware that his father was a Nazi commander or that he is living right next door to Auschwitz concentration camp. His parents were trying to protect him from hearing the truth or understanding

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