The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Reading Journal
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
By Kate M
BEFORE READING
1. Examine the title of your novel. Why do you think the author might have chosen this title? What might the title suggest the genre, theme, characters and settings off this novel?
The title of this novel makes me think that a boy in stripped pyjamas isn’t something that is usually seen and other people wonder why the boy wears the stripped pyjamas. I think this book will be about friendship and isolation. I think the main characters in this book will be young males because the person in the stripped pyjamas is referred to as a boy not a man.
DURING READING
1. What is the most important word, line or event that occurred in the part of the novel you read today? Why?
“You will have to say goodbye to your friends…” This line/quote from the book is upsetting because you can imagine a little boy (Bruno) having a fun time with his friends and being very close to them then his mother tells him he has to say good bye to them because they will be moving house which will be far away.
2. Which theme in the novel is being conveyed to you most clearly at this point? Why?
The theme of this novel is based around the war between the Jews and the Germans when Hitler was putting the Jews in concentration camps and gassing them. There is also a friendship forming between the two main characters, Bruno and Shmuel.
3. Which character do you find yourself being drawn to? What in the novel has created this response?
I find myself being drawn to the character Shmuel because I feel sorry for him because he is imprisoned in the camp. I feel I want to help him, get him out of the camp and to stop the Germans gassing the Jews. The author, John Boyne, has made the character of Shmuel seem innocent.
4. What intrigues, bothers or confuses you about the novel at this point?
It bothers me that when Bruno’s mother found out what actually happens in the concentration camps and her husband who is
By Kate M
BEFORE READING
1. Examine the title of your novel. Why do you think the author might have chosen this title? What might the title suggest the genre, theme, characters and settings off this novel?
The title of this novel makes me think that a boy in stripped pyjamas isn’t something that is usually seen and other people wonder why the boy wears the stripped pyjamas. I think this book will be about friendship and isolation. I think the main characters in this book will be young males because the person in the stripped pyjamas is referred to as a boy not a man.
DURING READING
1. What is the most important word, line or event that occurred in the part of the novel you read today? Why?
“You will have to say goodbye to your friends…” This line/quote from the book is upsetting because you can imagine a little boy (Bruno) having a fun time with his friends and being very close to them then his mother tells him he has to say good bye to them because they will be moving house which will be far away.
2. Which theme in the novel is being conveyed to you most clearly at this point? Why?
The theme of this novel is based around the war between the Jews and the Germans when Hitler was putting the Jews in concentration camps and gassing them. There is also a friendship forming between the two main characters, Bruno and Shmuel.
3. Which character do you find yourself being drawn to? What in the novel has created this response?
I find myself being drawn to the character Shmuel because I feel sorry for him because he is imprisoned in the camp. I feel I want to help him, get him out of the camp and to stop the Germans gassing the Jews. The author, John Boyne, has made the character of Shmuel seem innocent.
4. What intrigues, bothers or confuses you about the novel at this point?
It bothers me that when Bruno’s mother found out what actually happens in the concentration camps and her husband who is