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    adventurous. Another one is Shmuel. He is a Polish Jew‚ he is in the contrastion camp. He is very shy and one of Bruno’s best friends. Ralf is Brunos father. He is one of the commander of nazi army. He is harsh commander. Bruno is a 9-year-old boy. He lives in a huge house with his loving parents‚ his twelve-year-old sister Gretel and maidservants. His father is a high-ranking SS officer who‚ after a visit from Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun‚ is promoted to Commandant‚ and to Bruno’s dismay‚ the

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    Jennifer Garcia 8/13/12 Summer Reading I. Mandatory Reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The book “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” by John Boyne is a great book and I recommend it. It tells a story about two young boys from different worlds and how they collide. Bruno’s world as a boy with a great imagination and Shmuel’s world as a boy also but who can’t dream. He’s never going anywhere in life because of what he is and he is a Jew. This book also discuss the differences

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    The Boy In the Striped Pajamas‚ is a book about two children that were enemies‚ but at the the end‚ they became friends. Throughout the book‚ I describe Bruno as playful ‚and smart. I described Bruno as playful‚ because he loved to play with his old friends before he moved to his new house in Berlin. Once he got to his new house in Berlin‚ he didn’t have no one to play with‚ than he asked Pavel to create a swing with an old tire. Once Pavel was done with the swing‚ he started swinging by himself

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is that fear can prevent people from doing what they want and mean to do. This theme is developed by two characters who want to help and protect each other but fear is keeping them from doing so. Bruno’s father is a Nazi officer and Shmuel is a Jew who is in a concentration camp. Their friendship is an example that no matter what kind of person someone is‚ to not let their differences get in the way of a friendship. The point of view in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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    In John Boyne’s novel “The Boy In The Striped Pajamas”‚ it is proved that evil tends to arise out of the tendency of ordinary people to follow orders‚ to accept what their told by authorities‚ and to conform. The characters effectively show how influencing a conception can be by the exaggerating changes of their behavior and speech. When Bruno had asked about the people on the other side of the fence‚ his father had explained in a way Bruno could not understand. “Those people...well‚ they’re not

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The movie‚ “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚” was a very interesting but sad movie. It made me think about how children really don’t see a lot of things and how they are very innocent. The way the jews were being treated made me really upset at how things were really running like that in Germany without many countries not noticing‚ especially the United States‚ until years later when they had gone to war. But by then‚ many people had died‚ or became survivors without

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    reconstruction of the end of Richard Nixon’s final presidency‚ yet the television series showed accurate knowledge on the tense issue of history (Bernstein). The fictional fable of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas created a motion picture of a representation of the time period of the Holocaust. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas accurately represents the Holocaust and what occurred to all the Jewish Orthodox‚ yet inaccurately represents history with the impossible actions with the overall plot. During the

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    How can point of view and character shape the theme of a text? An important theme found in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is sometimes dread precludes people from doing what they desire. This theme is mainly developed by two innocent boys‚ Bruno and shmuel‚ who initiate an aberrant bond. The boy’s unexpected friendship‚ and their relationship as friends strongly determine the theme of the selection. The excerpt from the story is told from a third person omniscient point of view. The third person

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    ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ In the novel ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ by John Boyne‚ the most important relationship is between Bruno‚ a German boy whose father is a Nazi Commandant and Jewish boy Shmuel who is a Prisoner of War kept in Auschwitz. This relationship is important to the idea of friendship across the divide. It shows that friendship can brake racial barriers‚ change peoples perspectives and get people to stick people together in all situations.

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    The Boy In Striped Pajamas: A Movie Analysis The film is an emotional experience highlighting the tragedy of innocence‚ using the point of view of an eight-year-old German boy to expose the raw psychological devastation of the era. It’s an unnerving film with a knockout punch for an ending‚ but it feels more acceptable as an educational piece than a profoundly rewarding work of drama. This movie is based on a book that goes by the same name‚ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ written by John Boyne

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