the boy and the stripped pj
An important part of life is to have a sense of identity, culture and to belong.
Sometimes we have to sacrifice some of our identity to fit in, but we can learn new things and grow our identity.
A sense of belonging means you feel you are in the right place, your comfortable being yourself.
While many people belong, there are also many people who don’t belong, either by having a lack of friends, not fitting in or finding their surrounding new or unsure.
In 2008 mark Hermen produced the movie the Boy in the Stripped Pajamas that has both aspect of belonging.
In the Immigrant Chronicles by Peter Skrzynecki, he writes his poems about his life experiences and weather or not if he belonged.
2 poems of his, from the immigrant chronicles that show a lack of belonging are “In the Folk Museum” and “The Migrant Hostel”.
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas is a movie about a 8 year old boy called Bruno, him and his family are made to move to a place called out withs (Auschwitz), they move houses as his father is a highly ranked solider. Their new house is in sight of a connection camp, because of this Bruno is not allowed to do his most favorite thing explore, and must stay inside of the yard. The movie is set in World War 2, Germany
After they move the first scene, where Bruno feels a sense of belonging is when he runs out of the yard into the forest, the camera follows him by a tracking shot, this highlights the joy he gets from exploring. The overgrown surrounding highlights his freedom, after having nothing to do and no one to talk to; when he is running you can see how he feels a sense of belonging and identity. The closer Bruno gets to the fence the brighter the colours get; this reinforced the tone of Bruno and his happiness.
When Bruno first comes across the fence and sees Shmuel, he doesn’t understand what the connection camp is, he sees Shmuel as a new friend that will be able to play with him.
When Bruno and shmuel first meet the
Sometimes we have to sacrifice some of our identity to fit in, but we can learn new things and grow our identity.
A sense of belonging means you feel you are in the right place, your comfortable being yourself.
While many people belong, there are also many people who don’t belong, either by having a lack of friends, not fitting in or finding their surrounding new or unsure.
In 2008 mark Hermen produced the movie the Boy in the Stripped Pajamas that has both aspect of belonging.
In the Immigrant Chronicles by Peter Skrzynecki, he writes his poems about his life experiences and weather or not if he belonged.
2 poems of his, from the immigrant chronicles that show a lack of belonging are “In the Folk Museum” and “The Migrant Hostel”.
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas is a movie about a 8 year old boy called Bruno, him and his family are made to move to a place called out withs (Auschwitz), they move houses as his father is a highly ranked solider. Their new house is in sight of a connection camp, because of this Bruno is not allowed to do his most favorite thing explore, and must stay inside of the yard. The movie is set in World War 2, Germany
After they move the first scene, where Bruno feels a sense of belonging is when he runs out of the yard into the forest, the camera follows him by a tracking shot, this highlights the joy he gets from exploring. The overgrown surrounding highlights his freedom, after having nothing to do and no one to talk to; when he is running you can see how he feels a sense of belonging and identity. The closer Bruno gets to the fence the brighter the colours get; this reinforced the tone of Bruno and his happiness.
When Bruno first comes across the fence and sees Shmuel, he doesn’t understand what the connection camp is, he sees Shmuel as a new friend that will be able to play with him.
When Bruno and shmuel first meet the