My book report is about a boy and a Jew becoming friends. This all started when the boy, Bruno and his family were moving to a new home. His father is an SS officer. Bruno did not want to leave his home but it was not his choice. They arrived at their new home. His mother, Elsa told Bruno and his sister, Gretel to go choose a room. Bruno chose a room that had a tiny window; he looked through it and saw a house with smoke coming from the chimney. He decided to tell his mother that he wanted to go see the farmers. One day a soldier came named Lieutenant Kurt Kotler was walking around when he spotted Bruno watching him. He went over and asked if Bruno needed something Bruno said he wanted a tire swing. Kurt barked orders to Lars the …show more content…
Bruno yelled “Shmuel will I see you tomorrow?” Shmuel answered “Yes and bring food!” The next day Bruno took a chocolate bar and a soccer ball with him. On his way to the gate Bruno got hungry and nibbled on the piece of chocolate. When he got there he saw Shmuel sitting. Bruno stuck his hand through the fence and gave Shmuel a piece of chocolate. Bruno threw his soccer ball over the fence Shmuel ran to get it and threw it over he said “Don’t throw it over or I will get killed if someone sees.” The whistle blew then both boys parted ways. Elsa was frantically looking for Bruno everywhere. She spotted him and ran and said “where were you young man?” Bruno simply said “playing.” Later that night he told Elsa “Mother why do those people near the farm wear stripped pajamas?” His mother turned beet red and excused herself and father. Late at night around 12:00 a.m. Bruno heard his mother and father yelling about wanting to go live with grandma and grandpa she wanted to leave in 2 days. The next day Bruno ran and grabbed his chessboard when suddenly his mother stopped him and said “We are leaving in 2 days you better go pack up.” Bruno packed up his stuff and ran to the gate. He found Shmuel crying. Bruno asked “Why are you crying?” Shmuel responded “My Father he is missing!” Bruno said “I will go on your side tomorrow and help you find your father.” They made
This shows how Bruno perceives the Jews, or more specifically, Shmuel. Bruno decided that Shmuel was worth finding, and he actually thought that there was a potential friendship waiting to be discovered. He stayed, finding the worth in Shmuel instead of leaving him, "like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard."
Climax|Bruno meets a boy who is always wearing striped pajamas called Shmuel and became friends|
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”
The second struggle in Bruno 's and Shmuel’s friendship is their need to overcome their differences in the family background. One day, Bruno decided to talk about how they came to be in Auschwitz. When Shmuel starts talking about how he got here.He said that, “The train was horrible," said Shmuel. There were too many of us in the carriages for one thing. And there was no air to breathe.” “That 's because you all crowded onto one train,”said Bruno.... “When we came here, there was another one on the other side of the platform, but no one seemed to see it. That was the one we got.” (129-130). When Bruno talks about
“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
At the beginning of the book “The Boy in Striped Pajamas” Bruno is faced with hardship as his father is assigned a new job at a new place forcing him and his family to move, with that making him leave his three friends; Karl, Daniel, and Martin (Page 7 “Say goodbye to Karl and Daniel and Martin?” he continued his voice coming dangerously close to shouting, which was not allowed indoors. “But they’re my three best friends for life!”) This change dramatically changed Bruno’s attitude making
Bruno used to live in Berlin in a five story mansion with his three best friends for life; Karl, Daniel and Martin. Bruno’s mateship with his friends is demonstrated at the beginning of the book when he Constantly complains that he must move away from his three best friends for life. “‘Say goodbye to Karl and Daniel and Martin?’... ‘But they’re my three best friends for life!’” pg 7. During the Duration of the book the protagonist latches onto a different, obscure but deeper friendship with another character, through this he realises that Karl,Daniel,and Martin aren’t his best friends after all. “When he thought back he could remember that Karl and Martin were two of his three best friends for life, but try as he might he couldn’t remember who the other one was.” pg 176. Throughout the novel bruno creates an innovative relationship with family member and members of the household, in particular he meets Pavel, the potato peeler. Bruno also improves his love hate relationship with Gretel his sister as well as creating a overwhelming connection with the Family maid Maria.
Bruno is walking around his land and sees Shmuel; talks to Shmuel and gets asked to help find
As they move into their new house, that has wire fence surrounding their property, Bruno has a feeling that something is up and feels unsafe. He looks out his room window and sees many kids and adults all wearing the same striped outfit on the other side of the fence. Without knowing his family moves into a residence near the concentration camp, Auschwitz.
Bruno and his family move to a different house near Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland. Bruno mishears it and calls it "out with". Bruno was very upset about moving and wanted to go home. When he went into his room he could see a what he thought was a farm out of the window. His mother told him that he couldn't explore out the back garden but one day he didn't listen and went round there.
The mood throughout the story is very often negatively influenced by the setting of a concentration camp. The house in which Bruno and his family live at Auschwitz is small and lonely. “The new house, however, stood all on its own in an empty, desolate place and there were no other houses anywhere to be seen, which meant there would be no other families around and no other boys to play
The next day where its raining and extremely muddy Bruno went to meetup with Shmuel at the fence to go on the search for Shmuel’s father . Finally Bruno was on the opposite side of the fence , as he was sneaking around trying to blend in with other people he never saw nothing like that seeing everyone looking miserable and skinny.
Throughout the novel, Bruno misinterprets what is going on in the world and this family. One of the
Shmuel, went from being lonely and sad, to be more cheerful after meeting Bruno. Bruno gave him support, food and friendship things that he didn’t have inside the camp. One day, they planned to go and find Shmuel’s dad inside the camp and marched together with other people not knowing that they were marching to their death.
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.