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Boy In The Striped Pajamas

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In the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas filmed on 2008, produced and directed by Mark Herman and David Heyman. An 8-year-old boy named Bruno is clueless throughout the movie that Shmuel, a friend that he makes, is in a concentration camp. He believes that the clothes that Shmuel is wearing are pajamas when he is really wearing clothes that the Jews would wear in a concentration camp to tell them apart from other people. He makes friends with Shmuel by accident because he was wandering behind his house playing like any 8-year-old would be. He keeps asking him if he could go play outside with him and he says that he can't. Bruno of course goes and sees Shmuel behind his parents back. Throughout the movie Bruno's dad, which is a Nazi commander, …show more content…

For instance, Bruno's father the Nazi Commander, believes that burning Jews in the gas chamber will get rid of them faster. When Bruno and his family noticed black smoke from a distance, they were curious to know, but the father wouldn't talk about it. One day Lieutenant Kotler accidently tells Bruno's mom that Jews smell worse when they are burnt alive. With the truth now known, Bruno's mom confronts the father, telling how he can do a such cruel act. This is accurate because most people were really clueless in Germany by not knowing that they were burning the Jews in gas chambers. Which inferences the people of Germany not knowing because Nazis were not allowed to tell anybody what they were …show more content…

As seen in the film, he is an explorer and loves to play with other kids. When seen that the Jewish man did labor at home, Bruno was curious of the clothes the man is wearing. Bruno then asked his mom why the man had a pajama on. To keep Bruno out of that thought, she changes the talk and sets him off. Additionally, Bruno doesn't have much to do, and kids like him love to see things around them. On his perspective, he just wanted to find someone or something to play with, and that led him straight to Shmuel. Bruno just had the innocence and spirit to explore just any other kid, and because of the acts the Nazis did on his father's command, Bruno ended up dying because of his parent's negligence. Of course, his dad didn’t want that to happen, but Bruno was curious to see what Shmuel's life was like, so he got a buzz cut and put on some pajamas and crossed the fence. Not knowing, the father wanted him to stay away from Shmuel but in reality, he pushed their prohibited friendship. Bruno is incinerated in the gas chambers like the other innocent Jews. This portrays the fact that Hitler and his crew killed millions of

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