Analysis Of Life Is Beautiful And The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

One day, Bruno is looking out the window and asks his mother if he could “play with the children on the farm.” This is where the audience learns Bruno’s Harmartia, or tragic flaw, of his age. Children at Bruno’s age are innocent, kind, curious, and are often hidden from the evils of the world. Unknowingly, he moves close to a concentration camp, but due to his innocence, he believes the prison is a farm. He describes the “farmers” as looking “strange”

There are many instances throughout this film where Bruno misinterprets the state of what’s happening around him due to his own childish ignorance. At Bruno’s age, it’s practically expected that a child so young wouldn’t fully comprehend an idea as complex as genocide, and furthermore the Holocaust. One of the first moments we see Bruno misinterpret the world around him is his confrontation with Pavel after falling off the swing. He doesn’t understand why Pavel would give up his life as a doctor to come peel potatoes. “Is it nice on the farm?”

For example, he refers to “out-with”, and the reader must connect this with Auschwitz. This way of thinking about things and misnaming it, is a characteristic that identifies Bruno as a child, and it shows how children can misunderstand tragedies. Because of the limited narration, the reader is required to put together the details Bruno notices in the right order for it to make sense.

In many fictional works the setting can change the whole story in the blink of an eye. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is a book set in WWII. However, the story is told through the eyes of a young, innocent german boy named Bruno. Bruno’s family lives in Berlin until Hitler orders Bruno’s father to move to Auschwitz to direct the camp. Bruno eventually meets and befriends one of the Jewish prisoners living in the camp. Specific parts of the setting such as the weather and the time period can heavily influence the mood, negatively or positively. Also, individual aspects of the character’s surroundings can provide the basis for important events and/or twists in the plot. Character's thoughts, actions, and feelings can be developed with help from the setting. The setting of a concentration camp negatively influences the mood, provides the basis for pivotal events in the plot, and develops the character’s thoughts and actions in The Boy In The Striped Pajamas.

Bruno was the son of a Nazi commandant, but he had no idea of the horrors of the Holocaust. He was told not to go near the death camp his father was in charge of, but he did anyway. Bruno meet a Jewish boy named Shmuel at the camp and continued to visit him. They enjoyed each other’s company even though there was a fence in between them. One day Shmuel told Bruno that his dad went missing. Neither of the boys knew that he was actually murdered. They came up with a plan to sneak Bruno into the camp to help Shmuel find his dad. After Bruno gets into the camp they begin to search when alarms go off. The boys and other Jewish men get pushed into a room and ordered to take their clothes off. No one knows what’s going on. They are ordered into another room where they are gassed and die. Because of hate and intolerance against Jews, Shmuel was blocked off from the rest of the world and his friend. Bruno fought against that hate and intolerance by sneaking into a place where no one should be, to help a

The close-up shot of Bruno shown here gives the audience an idea of how the young boy is feeling, as we see from the eyes full of emotion and wonder that he has never seen something like this “farm” and judging by his young personality we have been presented to beforehand, we know he will want to investigate further. Bruno is like the younger sister in the poem, as he is young and naïve, always moving and excited with everything in life, always ready for another adventure and eager to see new things, and he is never scared to take part in everything. However, because of the ominous music playing softly in the background, we are introduced to the idea that this place, although it looks small from a distance and not unsafe, there is something very wrong with the peculiar buildings beyond the trees. The image of the concentration camp is shown from a long shot, giving us perspective as to what Bruno is seeing, and how from a distance it looks isolated and

Bruno is a boy that lives in Berlin, Germany in a huge house with 5 floors. Father has an important job at Auschwitz, Poland which is why they move there. Bruno hates it there as he has no one to play or interact with, until one day he goes exploring in the back garden without his parents’ permission and finds a

The author of the novel The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (John Boyne) and director of the film The Book Thief (Brian Percival) have both succeeded in capturing the audience’s attention and emotions, by having innocence as a key theme. Therefore intriguing the reader and taking an emotional effect unto their life. In order to do this, innocence is not directly mentioned, but rather hinted throughout many different aspects throughout the story. Both novel and movie use different approaches when it comes to innocence. By intensively comparing and contrasting the stories, the different aspects in which innocence plays a role throughout the stories are brought to light. Both pieces of work are secondary media that tell the story of families living during World

Bruno not knowing about the camp being a Jewish concentration camp was one of the reasons he went into the camp in the first place. If Bruno had known about Out-With and the real identity of it then he would never have explored to find the dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy. Since Bruno didn’t know about Out-with and the holocaust he went to explore and find the dot, and that dot became his best friend for a short life. The innocent dot that Bruno found ended up being the tragedy that caused his death. Bruno’s naivety lead him into Out-With along side his best friend for life, Shmuel. Bruno and Shmuel had never played together and Bruno was leaving back home for Berlin that day, the best friends for a short life wanted something to remember about each other. “‘I’d like to have seen it’ He added’. . .’Well?’ said Shmuel. ‘Why don’t you then?’. . .’it would be a great adventure. Our final adventure. I could do some exploring at last’” (Boyne 197-198). Bruno’s best friend for life lead him to the end of both of their lives. Bruno was naive about many things, but nothing more than the situation he had to make the best of and live

Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command of a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pajamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified

The movie is set in Germany in the 1940’s and tells the story of a 9-year-old boy Bruno and the trials that he endures as a result of the Holocaust. He is growing up during World War 2 and eventually loses his life. Bruno is forced into a world that he did not ask to be in and his child like innocence is what leads to his death. His desire to help others, his ignorance towards the world he lived in and his need to help someone in need sadly cost him his life. Bruno lives with his parents, his 12-year-old sister Gretel and maids, one of whom is called Maria. After a visit by Adolf Hitler, Bruno's father is promoted to Commandant. This promotion requires the entire family to pack up their life and move. Bruno is very unhappy with this change because not only will he have to leave his comfortable neighborhood and home but he also has to leave his three best friends. Bruno’s father has no sympathy for him simply because he is a military man that believes in raising his children in a strict disciplinarian manner. Bruno is now alone with no one to play with so he goes exploring and comes across the concentration camp near his house where his father works. Bruno ends up befriending a little boy from the concentration camp and agrees to help the little boy find his father. This then leads to Bruno getting stuck in a gas room and dying with hundreds of

Because she too is alone at Auschwitz she replaces her friends and companions with dolls, therefore leaving Bruno with no one but himself and in need in company. “I’m going back to my room to arrange my dolls” (pg 38). It is his family’s detachment that leads him to create new bonds with Shmuel, a Jew from the other side of the fence, which in turn leads to a horrific ending. This ending captures the reader because of the intensity and power in how it is written. If John Boyne had narrated the story in any other way, the effect would not have been quite so horrific and potent. This along with the main concern of the book captures the reader’s attention, encouraging them to read on.

A major change for Bruno was when they moved from Berlin to Auschwitz. Bruno was outgoing, adventurous and had many friends. After they moved, he became lonely, sad and a little resentful to his parents. He and Gretel were home schooled and he wasn’t allow to go outside anymore. He had no idea of what was going on in the concentration camp or his surrounding and didn’t understand why he couldn’t play with the kids he saw in the camp. After he met Shmuel things started to feel a little more normal for him but unaware that his life will end very soon.

Bruno, initially, has ignorance about everything going on in his life. For example, his dissatisfaction with leaving Berlin is demonstrated in many parts of the story. He is shown to the reader as being innocent, immature, and unable to give things a chance. On many occasions, Bruno complains about moving to “Out-With” (Auschwitz). He continually complains before even giving himself a chance to experience it. He was whining and being stubborn. To illustrate, in the novel, the author says, “Nothing, thought Bruno, not even the insects, would ever choose to stay at Out-With.

Bruno is growing up in Berlin, but moves to Auschwitz during World War II, sets out to explore the