Boy In The Striped Pajamas Essay
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by Mark Herman opened my eyes to a different side of the Holocaust. The film was told through the point of view of a young child outside the camps and how this horrific event looked to them. Bruno being so young and naïve had no idea what Shmuel was going through. For example, when Bruno first found the fence and Shmuel he asked if he had any friends and Shmuel responded with kind of and Bruno was jealous that he had someone to play with and that Bruno was all alone in his house. Bruno also brought up the point that no one around him had the name Shmuel or that he`s never heard of Shmuel and thought it his name was completely bizarre. Therefore showing Bruno had no exposure to such a culture previous to meeting
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Some of the historically accurate information of the film was the setting. The director had Bruno family move out into a rural area with no other houses around. This would be a likely place for a concentration camp to be. As they were often in desolate areas scattered across places such as Poland and Germany. The film was also accurate in having those held in the camp wear uniforms with numbers. Shmuel told Bruno after he asked why he had to wear pajamas that their cloths were taken away when they got their and also explained to Bruno that numbers weren’t part of a game and that everyone just wore them. According to the Holocaust Explained it says “concentration camps prisoners had their clothing taken away, often to be replaced by a striped uniform” and “Prisoners were identified by a number printed on their clothing (The Holocaust Explained Para 1-3). Another accurate event is when Shmuel told Bruno after hearing about his grandma`s death that his grandparents both apparently died upon arrival. This was probably true because according to the Anne Frank arrival at Auschwitz it said elderly and the sick were often sent straight to the gas chambers to be killed immediately (The Story of Anne Frank Para 2). Overall the movie was depicted accurately with the characters expressing realistic emotions and ideals of the time, but one huge inaccurate thing, which
Some of the historically accurate information of the film was the setting. The director had Bruno family move out into a rural area with no other houses around. This would be a likely place for a concentration camp to be. As they were often in desolate areas scattered across places such as Poland and Germany. The film was also accurate in having those held in the camp wear uniforms with numbers. Shmuel told Bruno after he asked why he had to wear pajamas that their cloths were taken away when they got their and also explained to Bruno that numbers weren’t part of a game and that everyone just wore them. According to the Holocaust Explained it says “concentration camps prisoners had their clothing taken away, often to be replaced by a striped uniform” and “Prisoners were identified by a number printed on their clothing (The Holocaust Explained Para 1-3). Another accurate event is when Shmuel told Bruno after hearing about his grandma`s death that his grandparents both apparently died upon arrival. This was probably true because according to the Anne Frank arrival at Auschwitz it said elderly and the sick were often sent straight to the gas chambers to be killed immediately (The Story of Anne Frank Para 2). Overall the movie was depicted accurately with the characters expressing realistic emotions and ideals of the time, but one huge inaccurate thing, which