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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a 2006 novel from the point of view of a naive young boy‚ written by an Irish novelist John Boyne. Unlike the months of planning Boyne devoted to his other books‚ he said that he wrote the entire first draft of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in two and a half days‚ barely sleeping until he got to the end. To date‚ the novel has sold more than 5 million copies around the world‚ and was published as “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” in the United States. In both 2007

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    (haventoday.org). In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Bruno

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    The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was made in 2008 by Mark Herman the director. The movie featured Asa Butterfield as Bruno‚ Jack Scanlon as Shmuel‚ and David Thewlis as Father. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a movie that takes place in World War 2 that shows the experience of Bruno a german whose family is well off. Bruno’s father is given a promotion requiring the family to move to the countryside. Soon after their arrival Bruno discovers the “Farmers” who live next door. He asks his

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Told almost entirely from a young‚ naive German boy’s point of view‚ Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a hard-hitting Holocaust tale that will render audiences speechless. After arriving home‚ Bruno (Asa Butterfield) learns that his family will have to move because his father (David Thewlis) achieved a promotion in the Nazi army. Bruno noticed what he believed to be farmers living just past a stretch of woods near their new home. One day‚ not long after

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas There are many films made about the Holocaust but not one that relates to this particular one because of how emotionally played it is. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas puts aside the powerful stereotypes between evil Germans and innocent Jews and instead‚ gives us two innocent eight year old boys‚ one Jewish and one German. Bruno‚ the son of a Nazi commander and Shmuel‚ the little Jewish boy stuck in the concentration camp become friends where they both believe nothing

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    Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Director: Mark Herman Type: Film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas‚ based on the novel of the same title‚ directed by Mark Herman‚ set in Germany during World War II in the early 1940s. It follows the story of Bruno‚ an eight-year-old boy living in Berlin‚ currently under the rule of Adolf Hitler. His father is a commandant at a concentration camp. When his family moves to Auschwitz (or as Bruno believes it to be pronounced: ‘Out-With’) near the concentration

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    Imagine that one simple mistake you make could mean the difference between your life and death? The cruel realization of this comes into play in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne‚ when Bruno‚ a nine year-old German boy meets Shmuel‚ a nine year-old Jewish boy at a concentration camp called‚ “Auschwitz.” Bruno‚ who is a very naive little boy stuck in the Holocaust‚ doesn’t understand what’s going on around him. As soon as he leaves the safety of his home and the guidelines of his in-command

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    1 . Contrast the two characters‚ Pavel and Kotler in the novel‚ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Pavel Kotler -old (middle-age) -young (teenager) -doctor‚ waiter -soldier -wears dirty grey pajamas -wears clean‚ ironed German uniform -bows before Kotler -calls him “names” -courteous toward Bruno in that he calls him “young man” -insolent toward Bruno in that he calls him‚ “little man” -kind‚ warm‚ gentle -mean‚ cold‚ evil‚ nasty -speaks quietly -yells Pavel is old and a doctor by profession

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    confidence disappears then they have a lesser chance at solving the conflict. The confidence one has when it comes to a problem can affect the way that conflict is solved. The text The Boy in the Striped Pajamas shows how confidence can really affect how you solve conflict. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is about two young boys‚ one is Jewish and in a concentration camp‚ named Shmuel‚ and the other is not‚ named Bruno. When the two meet they become friends. The Lieutenant doesn’t scare Bruno‚ therefore

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    The book‚ “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” written by John Boyne and was given the award of “Bisto Book of the Year”. This is a story about how two innocent boys with two completely different ethnic descents‚ one being a Jewish captive of the holocaust and the other being a son of a commandant in the Nazi army. Become friends during a time of hate and war. The two protagonists of the story are Shmuel (Jewish captive) and Bruno (son of the commandant). This book highlights the relationship Jews

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