Effects Of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
In 1939, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, causing millions of Jewish people to fear for their lives. First, every citizen, German, and Jew, had to complete a census, which included their race, ancestry, and religion. Second, each person was forced to carry ID cards everywhere they went, and the Jews were made to the star of David on their clothes.Lastly the Nuremberg race laws were created, which took all of the Jewish people's rights away. These laws also contributed to the Jews then being put in the ghettos and ultimately, concentration camps. The event of the Holocaust affected thousands of people by embedding a sense of fear due to the creation of the Gestapo, which lead to terror and destruction for many Jewish families, and by ultimately
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For example, John Boyne illustrates the story of a very young and naive boy, named Bruno. Bruno ends of getting muttered inside a gas chamber, will gripping on to the hand of his best friend, which happens to be inside the very concentration camp in which his father runs. Boyne wright's,”...Father was ordered to go with them, and he went without complaint and he was happy to do so because he didn't really mind what they did to him any more,”(page 216).This quotation is describing that Bruno's father is being taken away to a concentration camp, sent to his death sentence. This happens to the father because right before this quote is mentioned in the the novel, the father begins to treat his men that work inside the camp horribly and not doing his job because he was stuck with grief after the death of his son, and when he realizes that bruno's death was on his hands he feels no point in living anymore. Brunos father was not the only one in is family who was destroyed by his death, Bruno's mother went back to their old home all the way in Burlin hoping that e would be waiting for her. His sister gretel was very distorted with the lose of her little brother, so much so that she would rarely leave her room and would cry when she thought of him. So as we can see by the example of Bruno's family, the holocaust ruined families and millions of lives, German and jew
For example, John Boyne illustrates the story of a very young and naive boy, named Bruno. Bruno ends of getting muttered inside a gas chamber, will gripping on to the hand of his best friend, which happens to be inside the very concentration camp in which his father runs. Boyne wright's,”...Father was ordered to go with them, and he went without complaint and he was happy to do so because he didn't really mind what they did to him any more,”(page 216).This quotation is describing that Bruno's father is being taken away to a concentration camp, sent to his death sentence. This happens to the father because right before this quote is mentioned in the the novel, the father begins to treat his men that work inside the camp horribly and not doing his job because he was stuck with grief after the death of his son, and when he realizes that bruno's death was on his hands he feels no point in living anymore. Brunos father was not the only one in is family who was destroyed by his death, Bruno's mother went back to their old home all the way in Burlin hoping that e would be waiting for her. His sister gretel was very distorted with the lose of her little brother, so much so that she would rarely leave her room and would cry when she thought of him. So as we can see by the example of Bruno's family, the holocaust ruined families and millions of lives, German and jew