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Striped Pajamas Ignorance
The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas tells the tale of the friendship between a boy in a concentration camp, Shmuel, and the son of a Nazi, Bruno. Neither is quite aware of who each other are; this childhood ignorance is a large part of what makes this movie so tragic and upsetting for many people: the boys understand hardly any of what is happening in their world. In the end, both are killed at the hands of Nazi cruelty, with the story’s moral being that all people are fundamentally similar and all violence and cruelty enacted is tragically senseless and damaging: with child’s eyes, we all see the same thing. Bruno, newly moved into a town outside of Auschwitz’s concentration camps, comes across Shmuel by accident. A fence separates them
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