Bruno Is Not Dead - Original Writing

Bruno’s father is a highly respected SS officer, meaning that even though he is living with somebody who is advocating for the Holocaust and Hitler, he still doesn’t understand the war. His innocence really shows when he talks about the people that work for him, he thinks that they are just normal people that wear odd clothing, he doesn’t understand that they aren’t getting paid, and will get punished for talking to him. So he believes that it is okay, he also says stuff that have a different meaning then he thinks. “Heil, Hitler.” (5.288) This quote is when Bruno is talking to his father and they end the conversation with this saying. Though it was common saying and Bruno spoke german, he admitted that he thought it was just another goodbye or have a pleasant afternoon. Bruno doesn’t

Ever lonely star I see above me, is like a lonely person waiting for another star to come along. As another star comes along it shines that bright that there isn’t no other to compare with. He was the brightest star in the night, others seemed dull by comparison. Non-stop conversations began, and I started losing sleep. I got excite,a feeling I haven’t felt for a long time. We had even given each other nicknames, Blancss and Nakss, who had shared adventures, and a song that was randomly picked, Counting Stars.

The portion of the narrator’s memoir that is most vividly described, is the choosing of the stars. The way the narrator verbally paints the sky is extremely accurate I almost wish it wasn’t so cold outside, here in Cresco, that I could lay on a blanket and star gaze myself.

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

This quote was pulled from a segment of the short story, “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.” Alone, it is merely just a few disturbing words that may give the warm hearted reader some shivers. But behind these words is a detailed narrative of one day within the gruesome, horrific, violent, Nazi concentration camps; that would give even a cold hearted reader shivers. Tadeusz Borowski, the author of this fictional short story, uses his experiences from being held in a Nazi ran concentration camp, to deliver a detailed first person narrative of what transpired in Nazi Germany.

What he would do to Pavel? ( Jews were not supposed to touch or help Germans in world War II another example is while Lieutenant Kotler was walking in the kitchen, Shmuel and Bruno were talking while Shmuel were cleaning the glasses just as he was eating he shouted ‘where did you that from’ he shouted. Then Shmuel answered ‘he gave it to me’ Bruno answered ‘I have never seen him before or spoken to him’ (pg.171 2007). why do you think Bruno lied? He lied because he was scared that he would get beaten up by lieutenant Kotler. So he lied and gave the blame to Shmuel. (Bruno has fear he would get beaten up just like Pavel got beaten up by Kotler. Bruno is terrorise by lieutenant Kotler) this example highlights Bruno has fear and he terrorise by Kotler this shows Prejudice and

"Let’s step outside." I suggested, and shut the door behind me. "I have your check right here." I whipped it out from my billfold. "Thank you so much." He lifted me off the ground as kissed me on the cheek.

On the walk to the car, we pause to soak in the night’s sky. The moon is half-full with stars that twinkle as diamonds. Malcolm takes my hand and holds it tight. “It feels like old times” I whisper. And add, “As promised, the Universe delivers.”

Bruno thought that a concentration camp was a place where everyone inside was friends with each other. Instead, the concentration camp was a really dark place, the people inside would sit on the dirt and stare at the sky. Meanwhile, Shumeal knew all along what concentration camp was

the TV had signed off for the night. He was in a lot of pain and

Throughout the novel, Bruno misinterprets what is going on in the world and this family. One of the

Yet Bruno constantly ignores things right in front of him. The reader sees this when Bruno and Shmuel go through Auschwitz together. Bruno starts to immediately realize that the camp wasn’t truly what he had

Bruno has seen the camp. He is trying to search for more knowledge of what the camp is all about. Bruno looks for clues about the camp through people and slightly closed

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.

He enters the camp to help the little Jewish boy find his dad, but instead something horribly tragic happens. Bruno gets mistaken by the Nazis as a Jewish boy and is thrown in the gas chamber on accident. The ending of the book is super heartbreaking; however, the end of the movie isn’t as depressing but is still very sad. In the end of the movie Bruno sneaks under the fence to help the Jewish boy find his dead, but is later hung. This change in perspective means that there is a bigger focus on other characters, giving the film a strong family dynamic and allowing the audience to see more of how Bruno’s mother and sister are coping and adapting to the changes, rather than only Bruno’s blurred understanding of it. seeing how Bruno’s how Bruno’s mother slowly breaks down and becomes more and more emotional and how his sister is so quickly influenced by her Nazi teachings makes the story all the more shocking, which is a great advantage of the film. Whilst Bruno’s Mother is more likeable in the film, there is a fundamental reason as for why we don’t see so much of this emotional side to her character in the book. In the book, she appears to be more aware of what’s actually going, which is the more realistic of likelihoods, whereas in the film she come across as quite misled by her husband. There is a great scene in the film, however, when a Lieutenant comments that “They smell even worse when they burn”, which is when it first hits her that there’s more to be