The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Persecution Of Family

The major theme of the book is shown through the bonds of friendship and how in the most of unlikely circumstances friendship can survive and exist between people possessing an extensive and most restrictive division. A second theme is the evil and the intolerance which existed around these times of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, as seen by the Germans having the Jews in the concentration camp. And the third theme is the curiosity and innocence of Bruno, Shmuel and

After that day, Bruno goes to the forest every day to find Shmuel. One day, Bruno saw Shmuel in his house polishing the glasses for his father’s birthday. He holds Shmuel’s hand and said "Our hands, they 're so different. Look!"(167). When Bruno holds Shmuel’s hands, immediately he noticed the differences between them. One is healthy, fat hands but certainly not fat for a nine year old and the other hands just talk about other stories,that is about how hard of a Jewish people at Auschwitz.At Auschwitz,Jews live in a really rough living condition,they need to live in a confined space.Despite their visible differences, Bruno still accepts Shmuel as a friend. However, although they accept each other’s different physical features, but there are more struggles waiting in this friendship.

The examination of the Boy in the Striped Pajamas will examine the lives of the children growing up in a concentration camp. In order to accurately understand the introduction of the Jewish children living in a concentration camp, a brief summary of the movie

In 2015, according to the Criminal Justice Information Services Division, there were 6,837 hate crime offences reported to the police. A hate crime is an incident or offence motivated by a bias based on race, gender, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. Of those 6,837 offences; 58.9% were motivated by racial bias; 19.8% by religion; 17.8% by sexuality; 1.7% by gender; and 1.3% by disability. Today’s society has a cruel view of those who aren’t part of the un-oppressed majority- those who aren’t deemed to be “normal.” The society we see in The Crucible by Arthur Miller is just as- if not moreso- intolerant of anything placed outside of the socially accepted norm. Intolerance such as this can lead to fear, violence, unfair treatment, and unrest in the community.

Bruno sees him there and offers him some food. In the book, Shmuel is very reluctant to take the food from Bruno, whereas in the film Shmuel takes the food as soon as he is offered it. In the novel, when Bruno offers Shmuel some chicken, Shmuel says, “I can’t, he’ll [Lieutenant Kotler] come back, I know he will.” The change in the film can be connected to the change in Shmuel’s appearance. Because Shmuel isn’t very skinny in the film, something else needs to show evidence that he is very hungry and desperate for food. This is perfectly shown in the kitchen scene when Shmuel quickly takes the food from Bruno.

This is one of the first situations in the book that exemplifies going through a hard time. In this case the concentration camps, can change who you are as a person even after you have already developed your own

I agree with this quote. It is very important that we prevent people from being persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views. Although it doesn’t occur as often in the United States, it is still a major issue in many parts of the world. I think this relates to my life because I wouldn’t want to be wronged because of my religion or political views. I think this quote is trying to say that cases where people are persecuted or tormented because of their race, religion, or political views should be our main focus, as they are wrong and shouldn’t be happening.

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.

In the book “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” Shmuel is a Jewish boy being held in a concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland at the time of the Holocaust. The next sentences are about how Shmuel was abused by a Nazi Soldier because he was a Jew, “It’s all right, said Shmuel, looking up at him now. There was a lot of bruising on his face and Bruno grimaced, and for a moment he forgot about his apology,”(Boyne174). Shmuel is affected physically by being discriminated for his race. The following sentences are about how every Jew in the camp is either physically and emotionally hurt by the soldiers bigotry, “In fact everywhere he looked, all he could see was two different types of people: either happy, laughing, shouting soldiers in their uniforms or unhappy, crying people in their striped pajamas, most of whom seemed to be staring into space as if they were actually asleep,”(Boyne208).

For example, Syenite-one of the main characters-is ordered to have a child with a man she hates. In this example she is not even thought about as a human. Also, it’s not just women who are persecuted people who like the same-sex are not thought of anything. Some comms let them in, but most comms don’t accepted them. And it just gets worse for them because if you are trans-gender and a orogene you are dis-liked even more because you are evn more different.

Anyone who fills the specific criteria settled by the governing body gets persecuted, in this case, Shmuel and his family get thrown into the camp and are beaten and put under harsh conditions. Bruno notices that “one-afternoon Shmuel had a black eye”. (Boyne, pg.150) Shmuel also mentions that his Father has gone missing implying his death as well as his Grandfathers. These senseless beatings can lead to trust issues, health problems and even PTSD.

“we were told we couldn't live in our house we had to move to a different part of Cracow, where the soldiers built a big wall and my mother and father and my brother and I all had to live in one room.' ' All of you?' asked Bruno. ' In one room?' ' And not just us,' said Shmuel. ' There was another family there and the mother and father were always fighting with each other and one of the sons was bigger than me and he hit me even when I did nothing wrong.”

For example, Bruno would talk to Shmuel for hours a day without his parents or the soldiers noticing the two of them at all (Boyne, 2006). This could not have been possible since the normal working day for the Jew was eleven hours. It started at six in the morning and they worked until five in the evening (H.E.A.R.T., 2012). As a matter of fact, in the article Auschwitz Concentration Camp it stated, “Some SS men who wanted to get an extra few days leave would order a prisoner to go beyond the perimeter and then shoot them down with a machine gun burst” (H.E.A.R.T., 2012 p. 65). If Shmuel was a real boy at the concentration camp, he would have been shot immediately after passing the perimeter, thus why Shmuel and Bruno talking by the fence is a point of inaccuracy in the book.

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

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.