Shmuel And Bruno In The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

He still didn't know why he could not go to the other side of the fence. Bruno didn't know what was happening to Schmuel because he was so innocent, and unaware. If Bruno would have known he would have tried to help Shmuel instead of wondering why they could not play together. When Bruno went exploring he followed the fence and saw a dot that became a speck, that became a blob, that became a figure, that became a boy. That was the first time that he saw Shmuel. Bruno started to visit him every day, and he kept on asking if they could play every time(Boyne 104). If Bruno knew what was happening to Shmuel on the other side of the fence, he might have done to help him and not always focusing on if he could come over and play.

In chapter 1, Bruno was surprised when he saw his maid, Maria, packing his belongings. Bruno then discovers from his mother, that him and his family are moving to a new house far from Berlin, Germany. The move for Bruno must have been hard, because he was told last minute. A way Bruno's mother could have made the move easier for her son could have been by telling Bruno in advance. By telling him in advance, it would give Bruno some time to understand the situation better and give more time to do the stuff he will later miss . In chapter 1, when Bruno was told he was moving, he was upset about leaving his home, his school and his three best friends for life. If Bruno's mother told him about the move earlier, Bruno would have time to understand

For starters, He had befriended a young Jewish boy by the name of Shmuel, which was an unacceptable action to compel in the time that Bruno was living in. Although Bruno didn’t know that what he had just done was considered as the wrong thing to do, he treated Shmuel just like anyone else never the less and thought of him as a close friend, well the only friend he had since moving to Auschwitz. When he had found out that Shmuel was starving and in need of food, Bruno made sure to go to the effort and bring food with him to enjoy with Shmuel when they were sitting together, separated by the fence. One day after uttering that the Germans were “superior” (Page 112), Bruno had quickly thought of changing the subject as it made him uneasy to have said that to Shmuel, having an innate sense that it wasn’t the right thing to have said. Although Bruno’s father had exclaimed it many times before, Bruno had not been fond of the words that were spoken out of his mouth at that exact moment. As the novel progresses further

Text Sup: When Shmuel was explaining his story Bruno didn't notice that he had become increasingly sad while talking about it. Instead of trying to cheer Shmuel up, Bruno would get caught up in the little details of Shmuel's strokes saying that they were impossible when they were in fact possible.

The Boy in Striped Pajamas had numerous characters that were dynamic and changed throughout the novel. But the one that changed the most in the novel was Bruno he started out as an innocent nine year old German boy, and ended as a traumatized young boy.

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,

Bruno learns lots of important things when he first move to Out-With, a very big one was Change. Change is to become or make different, in this case change is about Bruno and his family altering their life and moving to a smaller house and fixing their customs with the circumstances they were under. In the book change does some good and bad to the family, change helped Gretel and Bruno with their relationship, it also gave Bruno a new friend called Shmuel. It’s bad because Bruno learns the hard truth of concentration camps, his mother kind of grew depressed and would drink medicinal sherries. “It’s that we have to make the best out of a bad situation.’” (Boyne, 14) This is what mother told Bruno after arriving at Out-With. She explained to

Bruno arrives at his new house and finds that he is all alone with no one to play with. He misses all of his friends that we back home in Bristol but his parents keep telling him to make up some games. Bruno does not want to but he is really anxious to know what is behind their back door. Bruno ends up in a place where all of the people were wearing the same exact clothes. Bruno meets this boy named Shmuel. They both kept on talking about themselves. They had many discussions. Ever since that day, they both became best friends. Bruno always went to Shmuel all the time. Until, Bruno had to move to a new place. He told Shmuel and he said that his dad was missing. Bruno helped Shmuel to look for his dad but instead, they were forcefully pushed

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

He doesn’t understand many different things, like when he thought Shmuel’s armband was a good thing. He is unaware towards what is going on around him. He even thinks that the Jews’ uniform are ‘striped pyjamas’. Not only does he not understand the circumstances of the Jews, but he doesn’t even know that his father is a very cruel man, and he is the reason why they are in these poor circumstances. All of this demonstrates Bruno’s

He tried to tell a story about this terrible time in human history with as much integrity and compassion as Serrailler had done ( as stated from a website, randomhouse.com). I think he wrote it to give insight into what it was like to be on the other side of the fence as in the Germans side. In my opinion, their relationship is not that good because of the fact that Gretel has knowledge about what's actually is going on, but bruno has no knowledge of what's happening. Bruno is a round character and shows a lot of emotion in the about their family moving and also about moving away from his friends.

1) When Bruno showed Gretel his window view, Gretel was shocked. Gretel is shocked by the view because when Bruno told her that the other children did not look friendly and there was a forest, she didn’t believe him and assumed he was lying. But when Bruno showed her the view, she saw all the stuff Bruno was talking about earlier. She saw a high wire fence that seprated the house and the other side where there were small and big boys, fathers and grandfathers and huts. The author has made it seem like that the people on the other side are supposed to restricted to live in that area.

There are many reasons why Bruno would be considered protagonist of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas from the characters to the thoughts going on in his head. Take Bruno and Shmuel’s first encounter for instance. The first time Shmuel is met is only when Shmuel is meeting Bruno (106). Shmuel is an essential character but only is seen when Bruno meets him showing that the plot revolves around Bruno. Bruno’s presence pulls others into the story just by an encounter showcasing his status of a main character.

I wonder how Bruno’s parent’s never realized or found out that Bruno would go visit Shmuel every day. In the text, Bruno says that it’s a very long walk. So how wouldn’t the parents realize he is gone for such a long time every day?

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