The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Daisy Ray 10/24/13 “Set during World War II‚ a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno‚ the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp‚ whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.” The story of the boy in the striped pajamas deals with moral disagreement‚ desire for power‚ and racial discrimination that was at the heart of World War II.
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I watched The Boy in The Striped Pajama‚ directed by Mark Herman. It’s about a young boy named Bruno‚ an 8 year old whose father is a Nazi‚ in Germany. In the beginning of the movie Bruno’s parents announce they’re moving out of town because his father has been promoted‚ to a higher position. They move to a house that’s away from all of Bruno’s friends. He always sees a man peeling potatoes‚ in what he thinks are pajamas‚ so he assumes the man is a farmer. The Nazis treat the man so bad‚ and Bruno
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I disliked the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas because I found that it achieved the opposite of its goal and sent the wrong message across. The purpose of Holocaust movies is to inform the viewers of the abominable happenings of the Holocaust. At the conclusion of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ I found myself feeling bad for the German boy. Instead of portraying the cruelty of the Germans‚ the movie made me feel sorry for the German family‚ forgetting that they were responsible for much of
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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
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The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas Juanito Perez Honors World History Mrs. Wolf April 16‚ 2012 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is about this boy that is called Bruno that’s 8 years old and his dad is a Nazi officer. Bruno has an older sister‚ a maid‚ 3 best friends that are called Daniel‚ Karl‚ & Martin‚ and of course a mom and a dad. Bruno and his family have to move to Berlin to a new house because his dad got promoted because he had a chance to meet the “The Fury” (Adolf Hitler) to
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an extremely powerful film. Although it is full of twists and turns‚ every single character has a different viewpoint. In the end‚ however they all realize how inhumane and cruel concentration camps are. This is especially true for Bruno’s father. In the beginning of the movie‚ Bruno’s father is a bit cold-hearted and close-minded. He doesn’t realize that his own children would be curious as to what was going on behind their home
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How useful is the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in telling us about the Holocaust? The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas‚ shows what life was like in Germany when the Nazis were taking over. The film tells us about two young boys with two different lives. The Boy in the Striiped Pyjamas is useful about some topics based in that time however it can also be unreliable in others. The Holocaust was mainly a target for Jewish people‚ black people‚ homesexuals‚ gypsies and the physically disabled‚ the mentally
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The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is about an eight year old boy named Bruno who moved to a residence near Auschwitz Concentration Camp from Berlin after his father is promoted to the Commandant of the camp during World War 2. Sometime after arriving to his new “home” Bruno becomes bored without his friends and disobeys his mother’s rule against leaving the front yard. He explores hoping to find others his age. Awhile later‚ Bruno finds another child named Shmuel on the other side of a fence
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In the text “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” the plot plays a major role. The story is about an Eight year-old called Bruno who is the son of a Nazi officer‚ when his father gets promoted by the Fuhrer which takes Bruno’s family from a nice house in Berlin to an isolated area where Bruno has nothing to do and no-one to play with. He ignores his mother’s repeated instructions and starts exploring by walking along the fence. He then eventually meets Shmuel a boy who coincidentally has the same birthdate
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The Boy In The Striped Pajamas The Boy In The Striped pajamas offers the unsettling truth behind the Holocaust. The concentration camp in the film that is implied to be Auschwitz‚ is where the adventures of a curious eight year old boy take place. From beginning to end‚ this movie shows an incredible story‚ and gives some insights of what Jewish people really did go through. This movie is heartbreaking‚ but will make you smile at the same time. The director‚ Mark Newman does a fantastic
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