Quotes On The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

Aristotle wrote the ideal qualities in order to form the “perfect tragedy.” Many people argue today that Aristotle’s criteria for a perfect tragedy cannot be met, due to the fact that it is contradictory. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was released in 2008 and I believe it meets Aristotle’s qualifications for a perfect tragedy, except for one part. In this movie, the Anagorisis does not prevent the praxis from happening.

Bruno and Shmuel are drawn to each other simply because they are two kids of similar age that don’t have any friends where they reside. Despite their “political” differences, they were able to relate to one another by playing games and just getting a sense of each other’s daily lives and activities

Auschwitz. The concentration camp where the most people were killed, too be exact, six million. In the novel The Boy In Striped Pajamas the main character is Bruno. Bruno is a nine year old German boy who is very naive about the Holocaust, Jews, and what happened to the Jews. The Holocaust was a depressing time in Europe for the Jewish. A group of people called the Nazi’s killed Jews because of one man who blamed the Jews for Germany's problems. That man was Adolf Hitler. Hitler put all the Jews in concentration camps where they did labor and got little to no food. Most people died to hunger and exhaustion, the others died in gas chambers. In the novel The Boy In Striped Pajamas it was bad that the main character, Bruno, was

Bruno likes going to meet Shmuel as much as he can and also loves bringing him food, talking and asking questions about his unfortunate situation and his seclusion behind a fence. Although Bruno does often say some silly and selfish things, Shmuel manages to contain himself out of respect. One example is when Bruno asks him why he wears pyjamas all day and Shmuel replies that are the soldiers that they took all their clothes away. Bruno then says: “My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away.” This sort of dialogue shows how naïve, ignorant and unaware were the young people like Bruno about the political situation of their time and about the segregation of Jewish people and their extermination and

Bruno did not understand what happened daily in the camp and was jealous that Shmuel was surrounded by other children. Bruno said “It's so unfair, I don't see why I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there's no one to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends are probably playing for hours every day, I'll have to

In the book Bruno and his family make a huge move. Bruno wasn't too happy but he learned to live with it. Along with the move Bruno slowly noticed he didn't know much about where he was. So each day he was there he would discover further for the truth. Going out to play meant to see his friend across the gate “Shmuel.” He came across this young fellow one day on a journey. Shmuel did not educated Bruno on much on what was going on over there on his side. But Bruno brought him food all the time and sat there and talked to him for hours. Bruno began to notice Shmuel would be in his

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

Throughout the book, he did not understand what went on behind the fence. His character has less of an understanding of it until it got closer to the end. He was unaware that the people on the other side of the fence were Jews and that they were supposed to be the enemy until his sister told him not long before they were to move back to their old home. To him, they were all just neighbors who wore the same clothes, which was “a pair of grey striped pajamas with a grey striped cap on their heads” (75). When he had meet Shmuel, he would talk about what had happened to him and his family and Bruno, not understanding how bad he had it, would reply, “That happened to me too!” or tell one of his own stories (232).

Back in Berlin Bruno had three best friends for life Daniel, Martin, and Carl that’s why when they moved to Out-With Bruno was devastated and when he found Shmuel, Bruno finally had something to do. Shmuel made Bruno's long afternoons short, and Bruno made Shmuel hunger ache

In this excerpt, Bruno changes by first not understanding why Shmuel is there, and being inconsiderate and ignorant towards him, to being very nice and understanding to Shmuel. When Bruno sees Shmuel's hand, he realizes some of the bad conditions at Out-With, and sees how badly they are treated. The narrator says, "Although Bruno was small for his age, and certainly not fat, his hand appeared healthy and full of life. The veins weren't visible through the skin, the fingers weren't little more than dying twigs. Shmuel's hand, however, told a very different story" (Boyne). Bruno did not think that Out-With was that bad, but after he saw Shmuel's hand, he noticed something was wrong, and he wasn't as ignorant and inconsiderate towards Shmuel,

where he was confused and wanted to know what’s going on later in the book. This occurred on page 179 when Bruno says, “I considered speaking to mother or father about this fence, but instead I asked Gretel.” This is when Bruno and Shmuel are talking about seeing a football game or something else. This shows that Bruno throughout the whole story stayed the same in the fact that he wanted to be

Bruno is extremely ignorant when talking about the Jews. Firstly, in the excerpt given, he thinks

Bruno thinks of his own world problems. He doesn’t know that Jews were being brutally murdered and neither do the people reading the book if their a kid. The book doesn’t show what Bruno’s father was doing to the people in “Striped Pajamas”. Some things in the book can show some good representations of the holocaust. One

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.