Compare And Contrast The Boy With The Striped Pajamas

Discuss the changes that take place between the novel and the film, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and the impact they have on you.

The novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas written by John Boyne takes place in the 1940s during World War II when Adolf Hitler was in power. The main character in the book, Bruno, is a nine year old boy who is part of a wealthy family and is forced to move to a place called “Out-With” because of his father’s work whom is an important commander working with the Natiz. At his previous home in Berlin he was accustomed to the luxury of a five story house, but he must adjust to his new lifestyle. At his new home he meets with a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone wears striped pajamas. The Jewish boy, Shmuel, and Bruno become very close friends, and at the end of the novel, Bruno steps foot into the concentration camp and the two boys die together.

He was dressed in striped pajamas that Bruno was familiar with seeing through his bedroom window. The two began to talk and Bruno returned every day to see Shmuel, his new friend. During their conversations, the two were surprised to learn that they shared a birthday. The boys talked about how they had each found their way to this new place. Shmuel explained that his family had to move into one room with another family, eleven people total, on the other side of the wall that the soldiers built. After a few months there, soldiers forced them into trucks and onto a train with no doors. When they arrived at the camp, Shmuel and his few family members were separated from his mother. The text states that “Shmuel looked very sad when he told this story and Bruno didn’t know why; it didn’t seem like such a terrible thing to him, and after all much the same thing had happened to him.” Bruno struggled to understand the extend of Shmuel’s suffering and the poor quality of life that people experienced on the other side of the fence.

This film was directed by Mark Herman, and is based off of the novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". This film occurs during The Holocaust and involves two young boys around the age of eight. One boys name is Bruno and is the son of an SS Officer, and the other is Schmuel, a Jewish boy inside a extermination camp.

The movie “The Boy in the Blue Stripped Pajamas” is a very powerful and moving. The time period of this movie was during the Holocaust in World War 2. This movie is based off the novel, written by John Boyne. “The Boy in the Blue Stripped Pajamas” is made from history. This movie is seen throughout Bruno’s eyes, the main character. Bruno is the son of Ralph, who is a Nazi commandant. The family moves because, the father got a promotion. At the new house is where Bruno sees the farmers in his window. When Bruno tells his mother about the farmers, he asks if he can play with them, she says she doesn’t think so. Bruno’s window gets boarded up, so he cannot see the farmers anymore. Bruno and his father are talking about why Bruno cannot play

“How do I look?” Bruno asked as he was putting his pajamas on. Shmuel responded with a nod indicating that they look alike. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas portrays a family during the German war and all the struggles they had faced. Bruno, who is the son of this family, wanted nothing but to go on an adventure. He even went against his mother’s strict orders not to leave and found himself outside a concentration camp. Children tend to have their own views on the world which results in them not seeing how harsh the world truly is especially when it comes to the aspect of race. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the power of rhetoric is shown in the culture between the German’s and the Jew’s lives and the

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Night have a few similarities. A few similarities are they were both in the Holocaust era, they both were in the time of World War II, they both were based off in Auschwitz, Poland, the father was an important character in both, and they had a similar theme.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is a novel that explores how dreadful and evil the Holocaust was through the eyes of an innocent child. Boyne understands that for the readers to truly understand the horror of Holocaust, it has to be told through the eyes of someone who has lived through it. The protagonist, Bruno, is ignorant of what horrifying events are going on around him at the time, but becomes friends with a boy on the other side of the fence of a concentration camp called “Out-With” which is based on the real life Auschwitz. With a strong friendship, lack of knowledge, and irony, childlike innocence is revealed throughout the story, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.

The two stories are based around the same time in history (1939-1945) and both contained children as main characters. In terms of personality, Heidi and Bruno have similar characteristics, and are both around the same age, inquisitive, curious, and both rather unaware of the damage their fathers are causing. Bruno is convinced that his father is on the “good side” and the places they are sending the Jews are fun and just a place to work for a while. While In Hitler’s Daughter, French just skims over the surface in terms of concentration camps, there is still an element of mystery, as at the time, no one is really aware of the damage and death that the concentration camps are causing.

Have you ever looked back and felt sad because of what happened in the Holocaust? The Nazis didn’t treat the Jews like thy would want to be treated. The boy in the Striped Pajamas is a sad story about a German family and a young boy that is a Jew during the Holocaust. A by named Bruno and his family (his dad is a soldier) had to move to auschwitz where Bruno would find a boy named shmuel (a jewish boy) and they met almost every day to talk. One dad something happened… John Boyne reveals actions throughout the story to build suspense.

In the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, the author highlights the main characters point of view to convey the theme that children who are sheltered from bad happening around them have a different,more positive, view of the world. Set during WWII, the story tells of a young boy named Bruno who meets another young boy, called Shmuel, and they form an incredible friendship. At the beginning of the book Bruno and his family are forced to move to Auschwitz. Bruno is very curious about many things, so it is only natural that when he sees the people in the striped pajamas behind a fence out of his window, he decides to check it out.That is when he meets Shmuel, a young Jew.

Bruno and Shmuel were able to portray the true meaning of friendship. The Boy in Striped Pajamas historically showed us the emotional side of the events that took place during the Holocaust. Even though friends and families were being physically separated, the movie gave the audience the insight of the true emotions felt during the World War II time

“The boy in the striped pyjamas” is an historical fiction based on the horrors of the WWII. Together with his mother, his sister Gretel and his father, an important man in the hierarchy of the Nazi army, happily lives their days in their beautiful Berlin home where his only worry was to play with his three friends. All these changes when one day he sees the maid of the house, Maria, packing his things. Bruno finds out that after Fuhrer promotes his father as a general, the whole family

The Boy in Striped Pyjamas One of the main ideas in the film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas directed by Mark Herman is that friendship breaks all barriers, no matter the circumstances. This is conveyed through the characters Bruno, a naive Christian boy who loves exploring, and whose father is a head officer in Hitler’s army. And his unexpected friend Shmuel, a Jewish boy who lives in a concentration camp on the opposite side of the forest that Bruno and his family live at. This is a very unusual friendship , but because of the two boy’s naive and kind hearts, they physically and emotionally break every barrier in their way that stops them from being best friends. In this Film it begins with Bruno and his family living securely in Berlin,

‘The boy in the striped pyjamas’ written by John Boyne and directed by Mark Herman tells the disastrous story of a young boy Bruno and his family in Nazi Germany; the family move to the countryside when his Nazi officer dad got a promotion at a concentration camp less than a mile away from their house. Bruno meets a new boy who later becomes friends in a wild friendship. Gretel, Bruno’s sister, gets influenced by a Nazi soldier and by her teacher, which makes her drastically change into a young Nazi woman. The changes progress when looking at the five shots from the film and studying mise-en-scene.