The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
Write down the characteristics of the main characters using quotes from the text to back up your ideas. Choose only two characters.
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Write a paragraph on how the writer describes people in this extract. Explain the words/phrases he uses to describe the people in the camp.
EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 4
Everywhere they looked they could see people, tall, short, old, young, all moving around. Some stood perfectly still in groups, their hands by their sides, trying to keep their heads up, as a soldier marched in front of them, his mouth opening and closing quickly as if he were shouting something at them. Some were formed into a sort of chain gang and pushing wheelbarrows from one side of the camp to the other, appearing from a place out of sight and taking their wheelbarrows further along behind a hut, where they disappeared again. A few stood near the huts in quiet groups, staring at the ground as if it was the sort of game where they didn’t want to be spotted. Others were on crutches and many had bandages around their heads. Some carried spades and were being led by groups of soldiers to a place where they could no longer be seen.
(page 36)
Write down the characteristics of the main characters using quotes from the text to back up your ideas. Choose only two characters.
Character
Evidence/
Quote
Explain
Effect
on
Reader
Link to the Question
Write a paragraph on how the writer describes people in this extract. Explain the words/phrases he uses to describe the people in the camp.
EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 4
Everywhere they looked they could see people, tall, short, old, young, all moving around. Some stood perfectly still in groups, their hands by their sides, trying to keep their heads up, as a soldier marched in front of them, his mouth opening and closing quickly as if he were shouting something at them. Some were formed into a sort of chain gang and pushing wheelbarrows from one side of the camp to the other, appearing from a place out of sight and taking their wheelbarrows further along behind a hut, where they disappeared again. A few stood near the huts in quiet groups, staring at the ground as if it was the sort of game where they didn’t want to be spotted. Others were on crutches and many had bandages around their heads. Some carried spades and were being led by groups of soldiers to a place where they could no longer be seen.
(page 36)