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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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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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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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The title of the book is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the author is John Boyne. The genre is Fictional History and the setting is in Berlin in a big house and in a house in Poland near a Concentration Camp. This book is about a boy that is called Bruno. His father works for the Fury (Hitler) and gets promoted to General and has to go to Poland to work at a Concentration Camp. Bruno doesn’t know anything about the camps or the Jewish‚ so he thinks it is about
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Leslie Shirkey His112-C01 Christopher Holcom Due November 21‚ 2015 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Holocaust “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 took place during the 1930s to 1940s‚ during the Holocaust. It was about a German boy named Bruno‚ who moved from Berlin out to the countryside because his father‚ a Commander‚ got a promotion. Unbeknownst to Bruno his work was heading the concentration
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The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas ( written by John Boyne‚ published 2006) and Private Peaceful (written by Michael Morpurgo‚ published 2003) have been some of the most successful books‚ both of which giving insight into the happenings of war through the eyes of someone else. In The Boy in Striped Pyjamas‚ the war is seen through the eyes of a high-class young German boy named Bruno growing up at a Nazi concentration camp. In Private Peaceful however‚ we see the war through the eyes of a boy named
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Theme Analysis Several themes are portrayed throughout The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by author‚ John Boyne. From start to finish‚ the book is packed with meaningful themes. The themes in the book are friendship‚ ignorance‚ and discrimination. The themes in this book are what make it such an emotional journey from page to page. The sensitive stories in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas about the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust gives the readers a better understanding
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best friends simultaneously be enemies? John Boyne answers this question in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. He writes a tale about a Nazi commandant’s son who befriends another boy. They soon become best friends. Everyday Bruno the commandant’s son‚ visits Shmuel‚ a concentration camp inmate. Since Bruno’s father works for Hitler and Shmuel and his family are trapped by Hitler‚ this makes things difficult on the boys. Instead of being able to play with each other‚ like Bruno wants‚ they are separated
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At the beginning of the movie‚ Bruno is completely naive about Germany patriotism. It has the audience curious because Bruno live in Berlin where is known as the capital of Nazi Germany. He at first thought the concentration camp as a farm where he could possibly meet his potential playmate. It is surprising when Bruno is unaware of the Nazi’s propaganda against the Jews. Assumingly‚ Bruno and Gretel are going to a public school where Nazis ideology was educated in the early age. Even with an overprotective
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Everyone needs to treat people the way the want to be treated. In the book The Boy In the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne‚ Bruno and his family move from Berlin to auschwitz when Bruno’s dad needs to work there. Behind their house is a concentration camp that Bruno can see from his window. One day Bruno went to explore by the camp and found a jewish boy Schmuel. Bruno and Schmuel became best friends even though all they did was talk. John Boyne used description to get readers predicting throughout
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