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Analysis Of Jewmas In The Boy In Striped Pajamas

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Auschwitz. The concentration camp were the most people were killed, too be exact, six million. In the novel The Boy In Striped Pajamas the main character is Bruno. Bruno is a nine year old german boy who is very naive about the Holocaust, jews, and what happened to jews. The Holocaust was a depressing time in Europe for the jewish. A group of people called the Nazi’s killed jews because of one man who blamed the jews for Germany's problems. That man was Adolf Hitler. Hitler put all the jews in concentration camps where they did labor and got little to no food. Most people died to hunger and exhaustion, the others died in gas chambers. In the novel The Boy In Striped Pajamas it was bad that the main character, Bruno, was naive about the Holocaust because it’s what lead to his death and if he hadn’t he wouldn’t have felt guilty about lying to Lieutenant Kotler.

In The Boy In Striped Pajamas it was bad that Bruno, the main character, was naive about the Holocaust because it’s what lead to his death. In the last chapter of The Boy In Striped Pajamas Bruno and his friend Shmuel go on a mission to find Shmuel’s papa. Shmuel, is a jew that Bruno found on the other side of the fence. Bruno and Shmuel form a plan to find Shmuel’s papa by going on the other side of the fence, to do this Bruno had to look a jew ‘“Pretending to be a person from the other side of the fence.’” (Boyne 205). Bruno thought that on the other side of the fence was a happy place with everyone playing, talking, and having fun. But because Bruno was naive, he was wrong. Bruno wants to go home but not without finding Shmuel’s papa “He had promised his friend that and he wasn’t the sort to go back on a promise…” (Boyne 208-209). Because he didn’t go back on his promise he got caught in the middle of a “march” and Bruno get pushed into a airtight room. Bruno and Shmuel died in a gas chamber because they didn’t want go back on a promise. If Bruno wasn’t naive he would have not died in that gas chamber and he would have lived to tell the tale to others. In the novel The Boy In Striped Pajamas it was bad that Bruno was naive because it’s the thing that lead to his death.

In the novel The Boy In Striped Pajamas it was bad that Bruno was naive about

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