Analytical Essay On The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

The 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”, this is where Bruno’s story begins.

After a week of being bored out of his mind he decides to make a swing and goes to Lieutenant Kotler for help getting a tire after getting some string. Upon asking him for help Kotler orders the vegetable
Everyday after his classes he went to talk with Shmuel until he had to go home. Later one evening Bruno was unhappy to find out that Lieutenant Kotler was joining them for dinner. At the dinner Bruno saw Pavel who looked unhealthy, tired, and as if he would cry at a single blink. Whenever somebody needed something Pave would bring it and Bruno could tell that Pavel would soon mess up due to his weakness. While eating Lieutenant Kotler told Bruno’s family about his dad and how he had moved away to Switzerland and Brunos dad kept on questioning Kotler until it became a heated question, but then Brunos dad stopped the conversation saying “Perhaps it is not the appropriate conversation for the dinner table.” After the arguing Kotler asked for more wine for the fourth time Pavel accidentally spilt the new bottle of wine onto Lieutenant Kotlers lap, causing him to do the most unpleasant thing. Nobody stepped in to try and stop it, not even Bruno’s dad. Even though none of them could watch it made Bruno cry and Gretel pale. Bruno had a hard time sleeping that