The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Comparison Essay

In many fictional works the setting can change the whole story in the blink of an eye. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is a book set in WWII. However, the story is told through the eyes of a young, innocent german boy named Bruno. Bruno’s family lives in Berlin until Hitler orders Bruno’s father to move to Auschwitz to direct the camp. Bruno eventually meets and befriends one of the Jewish prisoners living in the camp. Specific parts of the setting such as the weather and the time period can heavily influence the mood, negatively or positively. Also, individual aspects of the character’s surroundings can provide the basis for important events and/or twists in the plot. Character's thoughts, actions, and feelings can be developed with help from the setting. The setting of a concentration camp negatively influences the mood, provides the basis for pivotal events in the plot, and develops the character’s thoughts and actions in The Boy In The Striped Pajamas.

One day, Schmuel dad had just disappeared. This meant that the Germans had taken him a killed him. The Germans allowed themselves to take the Jews and kill them. The nazi’s opinions of Jews also rubbed of on children. “Why don’t we like them?”

Bruno doesn't know or understand the tragedy in which he is living. He misunderstands the significance of who he sees behind the fences of the concentration camp and doesn't understand why the people living behind the fences are wearing ‘pyjamas’. Bruno also, through his naivety

The story begins in Bruno's beloved Berlin where he and his family were from and this is crucial to the plot development because although a lot of violence occurs in Berlin, the concentration camps are located elsewhere and so the family has never had to worry about these camps and that is why Bruno knows so little of them. Granted that Bruno did possess some knowledge of these camps and knew how dangerous they were he wouldn’t have snuck under the fence with Shmuel and he also wouldn't have walked into the gas chambers, which eventually killed him. As the story progresses the Hoess family moves to ‘Out-With’ and the setting changes both tonally and physically. The new house in which the family lives is small and the environment is dull and boring as there is nothing to do, no other people to interact with and hence Bruno becomes very lonely “One day he was perfectly content, playing at home, sliding down banisters, trying to stand on his tiptoes to see right across Berlin, and now he was stuck here in this cold, nasty house with three whispering maids and a waiter who was both unhappy and angry, where no one looked as if they could ever be cheerful again.” This quote represents how much Bruno disliked Out-With originally as Berlin was a lot more luxurious.

Another difference in the approach of the story is that the family celebrates the father’s promotion before leaving with a huge party in the movie. In the text, the mom is putting on a brave face but it clear that she is not happy about it and neither is Bruno because he questions the mom to the point of anger. These were the only main differences in the approach of the story. The text and film both did a good job in portraying the story but the book was more

    January 30, 1933 the Holocaust started, and went on for 12 years. This was a very bad time for people that were different. Bruno was a young boy who knew nothing about the Holocaust, and he moved near a camp. Bruno had made an forbidden friendship that will lead into a disaster. Sense Bruno didn’t know anything about the Holocaust he started to talk to a Jew named Schmuel. It was very naive that Bruno knew nothing about the Holocaust. Because of this Bruno became friends with Shmuel, and went into the camp. If Bruno knew then he could of tried to stop the Holocaust.

Bruno was a young boy growing up in Berlin he perfectly content, until one day he returned home to fund the maid packing his things. Bruno and his family were to moving right to next Auschwitz camp because his father had become the head soldier of the camp. Bruno is really bored and lonely there, and his misses his old friends. Although while he is exploring one day things changed, he met a boy named Shmuel and they were so alike, the one thing that was separating them from each other was a fence. Shmuel was a prisoner in the camp.

One day when Bruno comes home from school he finds out that he and his family will move away and that he won’t be able to see his friends anymore, in the new house he becomes very lonely, since there aren’t any other kids around to play with him. He decides to go exploring and after a while he finds a big fence with a boy his age on the other side of it, they later become friends and we get to see how the characters and their relationships evolve. The movie is based on the book but some of the things are different and I would definitely recommend both reading the book and seeing the movie. One difference is that we in the book see the story from Bruno’s perspective, however in the movie we get more of an overview of the events.

During the Nazi reign of terror tragedy struck across the eastern world. Millions of innocent lives were destroyed and many of them were Jews. To the German empire the Jews were the enemies and the cause of the downfall of their homeland. To the Jews, they were innocent victims of the Nazi horror, as well as their scapegoat. The two works, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne and The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender, show the different perspectives during World War II, but The Cage provides better information about this heartbreaking event in history through the details and point of view included within this work.

At first Bruno's mother was also oblivious to what happened to the Jews, but as the movie progressed Bruno's mother slowly went insane. Next, Bruno visited Shmuel, usually bringing some food or toys to solve the conflict of boredom and hunger for his Jewish friend. Then one day, Shmuel's father goes missing, so Bruno offers to help find his father to make up for something he forgot. Thus, Bruno dressed as a Jew and entered the camp daringly; previously Bruno saw a film that was to deceive the Jews into believing that the camp was actually a great place. However, it wasn't and as Bruno and Shmuel ventured on searching for his friends father, he slowly realized what was going on.

At the beginning of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Bruno had to leave his home in Berlin and leave behind his three best friends for life, Karl, Daniel , and Martin and moved into to a place where he had nobody to hang out with. Bruno was devastated that he had noone to talk or play with anymore because his new house at Auschwitz was isolated from everything. Then one day from a great distance outside of Bruno’s bedroom window he saw a fence with barbed wired and behind the fence there was a lot of boys Then one afternoon Bruno decided to explore the fence and when Bruno got to the fence there was a boy named Shmuel who was wearing the same striped pajamas that Bruno saw outside his bedroom window. Bruno and Shmuel found one another at perfect time because Bruno had just moved to an isolated house and had no friends. Eversince Bruno and Shmuel met Bruno had been sneaking out of his house every afternoon to see

The movie realistically depicts the suffering and the treatment the Jews went through during the Holocaust. The Jews were not labeled as people during this time, this is evident when Bruno’s father tries to explain who the Jews in the concentration were, and said, “the thing is, Bruno, those people...Well, you see, they're not really people at all.” They were treated worse than dirt and any job before they had before entering the concentration camp became useless. One Jew in the movie, Pavel practiced as a doctor before the war, but now peeled potatoes to survive. Pavel receives a beating over an accident when he spilled one of the soldier’s wine at dinner, but the true reason he receives the beating because the officer took his frustration out on him. The main reason they were treated badly during that time because many believed the Jews were the cause of Germany losing the War, Gretel explains this to Bruno, “They're evil, Bruno. Evil, dangerous vermin. They're the reason we lost the Great War.” Germany takes its frustration out on the Jews, just like the officer did to Pavel. They live in horrible conditions at the work camps; they are forced to sleep in small wooden bunks with other prisoner crammed in there with them. When Bruno and Shmuel are in the camp there are snarling

A major change for Bruno was when they moved from Berlin to Auschwitz. Bruno was outgoing, adventurous and had many friends. After they moved, he became lonely, sad and a little resentful to his parents. He and Gretel were home schooled and he wasn’t allow to go outside anymore. He had no idea of what was going on in the concentration camp or his surrounding and didn’t understand why he couldn’t play with the kids he saw in the camp. After he met Shmuel things started to feel a little more normal for him but unaware that his life will end very soon.

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.

In order for a novel to be great there has to be a well explained plot. A plot consists of the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. The exposition is described by the characters, background information, and conflicts. The main character is Bruno, a nine year old boy who loves to explore all around town with his three best friends. Gretel or often reffered to as the “Hopeless Case” is Bruno’s older sister who loves to play with her dolls and often teses Bruno with her friends. Mother is a stay at home wife who loves her children. Father is a soldier who persecutes Jews. Maria is the maid who helps around with the job chores, Bruno has known her his entire life. Bruno is frustrated when he finds out he is leaving Berlin to move to “Out-With” so his father can be closer to his job. Bruno does not like his new house but that does not keep him from exploring it. There are two