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This is why the quote strongly relates to the overall meaning of the story. Many of the events that occurred during the story could have been prevented if everyone had stayed true to themselves and not try to pretend to be someone they knew they weren’t. If Bruno’s father treated the other Jewish children as he would have treated Bruno he wouldn’t have lost his son in such an ironic situation. His father let his uniform become like an alternate ego and that alternate ego slowly became who he truly was. In this story everyone seemed to let what they wore take over them and turn them into someone they didn’t intend to…
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How can two 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 by a fence. Bruno and Shmuel have these secret meetings every day and Bruno’s mother is also having secret meetings. However, her meetings are with the young lieutenant who works for Hitler. Although this is not clearly stated in the book, one can infer that she is having an affair with the man. Eventually, the commandant sends the lieutenant away. After a while of visiting each other Bruno learns that he is moving. As a last adventure, the two devise a plan that involves Bruno crossing the fence. When Bruno finally crosses, a herd of Nazi army officials rush a group of Jews and Bruno into an air tight room. He is only nine-years-old so he is clueless about the…
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The holocaust impacted Bruno’s life greatly. First- he had to move from his hometown because his dad is a soldier. When he gets there he has absolutely no clue what is going on in his country. In their home they have Jews that work for them but Bruno just thinks he is a farmer. Schmuel and Bruno’s friendship is forbidden so that affects Bruno because he really cares about Schmuel but can’t do anything to help him. Also at the end of the movie Bruno ends up dying because of the Holocaust.…
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The main themes of the movie that stand out the most but are certainly not limited to is, innocent and complicity. Though he attends school and his father is a high ranking Nazi official, Bruno is mostly ignorant of the political situation at the time. When Bruno leaves Berlin he wonders why he left to be near the camp full of people in striped pajamas. Another example is the fact that he has no idea what is going on in the camp or Germany and also thinks Shmuel lives in the concentration camp with his family. That is abruptly changed when he actually goes inside to look for Shmuel’s father and realizes its not like the video about the camps. Even though Bruno’s mother is not thrilled at her husband’s job, she does not actively fight his decision to move the family. Through her not protesting and like many Germans, they complied with, did not interfere or think about the harsh realities of what the Nazis are doing. Also Bruno, Gretel or the mother doesn’t do anything when Kotler beats Pavel to death, they continue to eat through…
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Hans was serving in WWI when he met Erik Vandenburg, a Jewish accordion player who he becomes friends with. Erik saves Hans by volunteering him to mail letters while the others have to go fight. (177) Erik and the rest of the soldiers they were with die, except for Hans, who did not have to fight. All of the people who died had families and had so much potential. Hans then sees how significant life is and then vows to protect Erik’s family whenever they are in danger. It is because of Erik that Hans does not have a prejudice against Jews. Later, when the Jews are experiencing hate and it is not safe for them in Germany, Hans takes in Erik’s son, Max. Hans sees how important it is to save as many people as he can, even if it is just one person. Every life is crucial and he sees this through the deaths of the soldiers in his unit. He wants to save Erik’s son Max because he wants a better future for him because his dad died so young. Someone else who saved Jews was Oscar Schindler. He saw the horrors of the concentration camps and wanted to save as many people as possible. He used every resource he could to save them. In an article about his story it says “Oscar Schindler spent millions to protect and save his Jews, everything he possessed. To more than 1200 Jews Oscar Schindler was all that stood between them and death at the hands of the Nazis.” (Louis Bülow 1) Before he was saving Jews he had a job of war profiteering. After he saw how many innocent lives were being taken by the Nazi’s he saw how valuable those lives are and promised to save them. Those Jews whose lives he saved were now able to go on and do great things. They were able to live and that is the best gift Schindler could have given…
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During the Second World War the Nazis were cleansing the Jewish population of Europe. In the book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne he writes about a Jewish boy named Shmuel and a German boy named Bruno. Shmuel is a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp named Auschwitz and Bruno’s father is a high-ranking member of the Nazi forces station at Auschwitz. The two boys somehow become friends despite the stupendous odds set against each other by the German forces, "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life” (Boyne 213). This quote shows the strength Bruno has to stay with Shmuel to the end even though he is considered less equal as Bruno. When Bruno was at home talking to his father about Shmuel says, “The people I see from the window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same. Ah, those people, Those people... well, they're not people at all, Bruno"(Boyne 53). Brunos innocence is shown is this quote from him having no idea what is going on in the world at the time, and through his eyes he sees everyone as…
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The quotation tells me that the plight of Jews under the Nazis was such a struggle and they were helpless. This scene where lieutenant Kotler does something to Pavel at the dinner table when he spilled the bottle of wine on his lap, which is not mentioned but the reader can assume it was something extremely brutal and unpleasant for Pavel, is just one example of the cruelty that Jewish people had to live though for more than ten years during the Holocaust. In the book it Bruno’s father says, “We are correcting history here.” Jewish had to live through so much torment that the Nazis inflicted on them because in the opinion of most Germans, they were “Correcting history” like Bruno’s father says in the book, by getting rid of weak and dangerous…
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