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    In the movie “The Boys in Striped Pajamas”‚ the father‚ Ralf‚ was a military officer who had a strong power in Nazi Germany. As a military officer‚ Ralf had been drinking the water contained various chemicals named Nazism. He also provided this kind of water to his family. He

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    How can point of view and character shape the theme of the text? The theme of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is that fear can prevent people from protecting each other and doing the right thing.This theme was inferred when the book excerpt says‚ “He’d never seen anyone look so terrified as Shmuel did at that moment and he wanted to say the right thing”(47). In the story the son of an SS officer and a young boy who was a Jewish prisoner became friends‚ so when the time to protect each other came

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    In the book‚ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ there are many facts that do not match up to history. These important details to the holocaust are not included in the book‚ making it a fable. The fence in the book‚ is not electric‚ or guarded‚ when in reality they were. Every person in this camp had a job‚ or they were dead. Shmuel would not be able to get extra clothes for Bruno. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne is accurately labeled a fable because of the fact that the fences are completely

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    or bad that Bruno was naive of the Holocaust?. Bruno‚ a 9 year old German boy was naive about the Holocaust because Father didn’t want Bruno to know about what happens on the other side of the fence because he wanted Bruno to feel comfortable at out-with and not want to move back to Berlin because of the Holocaust which is “a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar”. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the novel

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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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    published book. What reasons for which do we write great stories? To entertain‚ is one. Shakespeare’s works‚ for example‚ were almost all written for entertainment - to be performed for an audience. As over four centuries 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

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    people had big conflicts because of some certain religions and cultures. An example of this is Anne Frank who was a Jew and suffered a conflict where she and her family were forced to go into hiding. Another example is Bruno from The Boy and The Striped Pajamas who had a conflict because he gave his best friend food‚ but the best way they responded to the conflict was taking action. These stories show how taking action is one of the best ways to respond to conflict‚ as well as others who hid the

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    The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas Imagine this! Becoming close friends with a boy that lives on the other side of a fence in a Nazi camp and only being able to talk to them through a fence; never being able to run around together or just play a game of tag. Well that’s what happened to a little nine year old boy named Bruno that had to move very far away for his dads work. Bruno wondered beyond the fences when he met a little boy that seemed just like himself but yet his life and circumstances

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    and kindness. Our feelings toward others mark us apart from all other animals and makes us who we are. Humanity is possible in the toughest situations‚ as shown in the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ September 11‚ 2001‚ and our own communities. To begin with‚ the characters of the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne display

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    story “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is about two innocent 9 year olds trying to find friendship facing the most unlikeliest odds. When Bruno‚ the son of a Nazi commandant moves to a new house‚ an unfamiliar place called "Out-With" (Auschwitz)‚ he soon becomes very lonely and misses his “Three Best Friends For Life”. After he first arrived at his new house he looked out of his bedroom window and noticed an unfriendly looking camp with barbed wire fencing and a lot of people wearing “striped pajamas”

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