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Bruno and Shmuel were able to portray the true meaning of friendship. The Boy in Striped Pajamas historically showed us the emotional side of the events that took place during the Holocaust. Even though friends and families were being physically separated, the movie gave the audience the insight of the true emotions felt during the World War II time

“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, is set during WWII Germany. 8-year-old Bruno, his mother, sister and S.S Commandant father relocate to the countryside near a concentration camp. Bruno, looking for new friends, explores his backyard and finds Shmuel, who he believes is a farmer wearing odd striped pajamas ”. Bruno then realizes that Shmuel is not a farmer but a Jewish prisoner in a camp. Bruno continuously visits Shmuel despite being taught that Jews were bad. On one visit, Shmuel expresses his concern over his missing dad, when Bruno comes up with the idea of sneaking under the gate and helping him look for his dad. The next day the two go through with the plan and face the same fate as Shmuel’s father. Throughout the film symbols, cognitive dissonance, ethnocentrism, mass media and fundamental attribution error are displayed.

The boy in the striped pajamas is expressed through the eyes of a boy who has no clue that it is World War 2. John Boyne tells this story in many different points of view. The story is about a young boy named Bruno who moves with his family to a concentration camp, because his father has just gotten the job as head of the camp. No one will tell him why he’s actually there, and the camp is very barren and arid. I agree with John Boyne expressing the terrible events of the holocaust through the eyes if a child.

WW2 was an era where people questioned if the world had any humanity left. Germany lead the war sentencing to death any minority in its way, 50 million people died. The film “The boy in the Striped pajamas” allows you to see Germanys side of the war through an 8-year-old boys eyes, named Bruno. Bruno is almost like all of us in the modern age questioning the war. He, innocent was a son to a high-ranking military officer. Later in the film the family of four moved due to the father being stationed to run the Auschwitz concentration camp. This camp was used during WW2 and was used to eventually diminish all jews during the holocaust. One day Bruno runs off to explore and finds this camp surrounded with electrical fencing. He finds a boy named

The boy in the Striped Pajamas. A book written by John Boyne; and published on January 5th, 2006. This is a medium sized novel that gives a brief understanding of how a young Jewish Boy that goes by the name Shmuel; and how he lives on a day to day basis. He was enslaved and shipped off by a Anti-Jewish Military in Germany (also known as the Nazi’s) whilst in World War II to a Concentration Camp in Berlin, they believed that no Jewish people are right; they’re all wrong and inhumane. There was once a sullen, and very innocent boy that goes by the name Bruno. He was not enslaved by the Germans for two reasons, He’s not Jewish and his dad is a Lieutenant General work for the Nazi’s, Bruno and Shmuel were both friends; They couldn’t interact

The book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne is a fictional story about the Holocaust. It accurately describes the event through the eyes of a young child. Bruno does not understand what is going on around him and believes his father is a good soldier. However he fails to realize that his father is very high up in power with the fight to end Jews lives. Bruno and his sister Gretel, live in Berlin but after the night the Fury comes for supper their life changes. There whole family is moved to a smaller house, near a whole bunch of huts. The children get a tutor so they still get an education. After one particular lesson Bruno is bored, so he decides to do some exploring. He has been told not to go near the fence, but the curiosity

The Holocaust, being one of the most tragic events in history, has found itself becoming an influence in popular cinema as a way to delve into the endless stories of the experience. One movie, in particular, that presents the Holocaust in a more empathetic light is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, directed by Mark Herman. The movie resonated well with the audience and has accumulated many nominations and awards. How this was achieved was through a narrative of two young boys, a German and a Jew, who come across each other in unknowingly disheartening circumstances and develop a friendship that ultimately ends in tragedy. Presentation, context, and accuracy were key factors that had brought this story to fame.

The years of 1933-1945 were a very dreadful time in Germany, Poland, and other countries in Europe because of the Holocaust. The novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, written by John Boyne, is all about the mistreatment and persecution of Jewish people, it gives true historical events during that time. The main character, Bruno is an eight-year-old boy that has a dad that is a major general of the Nazi Party. Bruno first lived in Berlin, Germany but was forced to move because of his dad’s job. When Bruno moved, he saw fenced in people in his backyard. The fenced in people ended up being Jewish people in a concentration camp where people were tortured, starved, and killed. Concentration camps are just some ways that the Nazis tortured the Jews. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas relates back to concentration camps and the Nazis

In the beginning of the novel, Bruno was blameless and just as clueless as to the terror occurring in his own backyard as everyone else. He viewed the Jews and their families as equals. He didn’t recognize his father, mother, and sister’s views and opinions on this topic.

Bruno was a very friendly boy to almost everyone that one exception was Gretel. She always made fun of or picked on him because he couldn’t fit into his new home social wise. But through all of that emotional pain Bruno was still loyal and kind to Shmuel. Bruno listened to Shmuel’s memories of his old life in the nicer side of Poland. Bruno told Shmuel about his house in Berlin. Shmuel and Bruno talked about how different it was in there old homes before coming to “Auschwitz”.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affected innocent people, and children during the war. Through the lens of an eight year old boy, we are able to witness a friendship that was not followed but secretly formed between a boy named Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Shmuel, a Jewish boy held in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a wired fence, their lives become inescapably. The story of Bruno and Shmuel bring light on the brutality and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. However together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims during the Holocaust.

The first one is that why do the people have the same physical appearance in the camp and why were they being treated with humiliation by the soldiers. Bruno could not understand why were the people in the camp all so identical and had shaved heads as well as the same striped clothes. 'How extraordinary,' pg 158. this was spoken by Bruno after he noticed the people in the concentration camp, all having the same noticeable appearance. During Bruno's cooperation towards finding Shmuel's dad, he saw soldiers snubbing or treating the Jews with humiliation. This incident had caused Bruno to get confused because what he had expected in his imagination wasn't there at all. 'I don't like it here,' pg 150. This was complemented by Bruno after he analyzed the soldiers laughing and being happy while they were shouting at the Jews and persecuting them. Many queries of Bruno which had unexpected and abrupt answers, no wonder caused him to be felt betrayed and made he readers feel sympathetic towards

The Holocaust. Skinny people. Shaved heads. Hungry. “In 1993, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million”. Around the time, 1945, the Germans killed almost ⅔ of the Jews. During the Holocaust, over 6 million Jews were killed or taken away. (ushmm.org). In the book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Bruno came home from a good day at school, but has to ruin his day by finding out they are leaving Berlin, towards the end of the book Bruno becomes friends with a boy on the opposite side of the fence, they become lifelong friends, and Bruno forgets about Berlin. At the end of the book, Bruno doesn't want to leave his new house, to go back to Berlin. He wants to stay at his home in Poland. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the novel because he made a lifelong friend, and he turned bad phrases, into a good meaning.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne is about an unlikely friendship between Bruno, the son of a German Nazi commandant and Shmuel, a Jewish captive in a concentration camp ran by Bruno’s father. The novel is set during 1940’s when the Holocaust took place. The Holocaust was a large genocide led by Adolf Hitler and his army of Nazi’s to exterminate all Jewish people in Europe. The novel begins with Bruno and his family moving into an ‘out-with’ in the middle of nowhere. Bruno decides to explore the area around his house and comes across a “farm” surrounded by barbed wired fence. On the other side of the fence was a boy, Shmuel, around his age wearing striped pajamas. The two boys end up meeting daily, leading to a friendship which ends in a tragedy. Due to this new-found friendship, Bruno and Shmuel break racial barriers and form a true friendship despite their social differences. The incidents in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas affect the reader’s interpretation of controversial social issues in society, including social inequality, political propaganda, and racial discrimination.

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live during the Holocaust. In the book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a nine year old German boy, Bruno, is living in Germany. His father works for Hitler as a high ranking Nazi. In the beginning of the book, Bruno’s family has to move to Out-with. His father is sent there to run the camp. Jews are captured and sent to this camp. They are starved and killed in Gas chambers. Bruno befriends a Jewish boy his age and then they hang out with eachother almost everyday. It is good that Bruno has a lack of knowledge about the Holocaust because it allows him to bond with Shmuel and he learns that he is not the most important person in the world.