The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas Analysis

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”

Shmuel does nothing towards Bruno’s ignorance and innocents just because he doesn't want to brought back to reality, his new friend is his escape to reality.

The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas is a novel written by John Boyne. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is about a young man named Bruno. Bruno moves from Berlin to Auschwitz. Bravery and courage comes in many forms – from moving to a new place you’ve never been before, to making new friends with people you’ve never met. Bruno is one such character that displays strong acts of bravery. Moreover, the intention of this essay is to explain in greater depth why Bruno is a justifiably brave character.

In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was good that Bruno was naive because he didn’t see any bad differences between him and Shmuel and he wasn’t influenced to hate him. Bruno was naive he didn’t think that he and Shmuel were different at all. He didn’t hate him because he didn’t know that he was supposed to. He had heard his dad talking about how they weren’t people but he just didn’t understand. He and Shmuel formed an amazing friendship because Bruno was so clueless. At one point, Bruno and Shmuel were talking and Shmuel mentioned his birthday, “‘I’m nine. . . my birthday is April the fifteenth nineteen thirty-four,’” (Boyne 109). Bruno the responded saying, “‘ . . . my birthday is April the fifteenth too. And I was born in nineteen thirty-four,’” (Boyne 109). Bruno didn’t understand that he was supposed to hate the people on the other side of the fence. To him, they were just normal people. They were just like him and his family.

As commented by Bruno “….because my birthday is April the fifteenth too” implying that they share the same birthday. Both Bruno and Shmuel was forced to leave their hometowns to go to their new place in Auschwitz. Which Bruno described as “horrible place.” Both Bruno and Shmuel misses their old home as well as their friends. In the novel Shmuel was taught to how to speak German as it was revealed by Shmuel “Mama is a teacher in my school and she taught me German” in (chapter ten page sixty). Bruno can also speak German and was taught by Herr Litz. Likewise, through explicit use of Bruno really hates Auschwitz because it’s boring and not as fun as Berlin, same as Shmuel as he also hates Auschwitz since it’s frightening and dark. Due to their similarities, both of the characters was able to related to their situation and talk more about their life which help their friendship grew

In the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, the author highlights the main characters point of view to convey the theme that children who are sheltered from bad happening around them have a different,more positive, view of the world. Set during WWII, the story tells of a young boy named Bruno who meets another young boy, called Shmuel, and they form an incredible friendship. At the beginning of the book Bruno and his family are forced to move to Auschwitz. Bruno is very curious about many things, so it is only natural that when he sees the people in the striped pajamas behind a fence out of his window, he decides to check it out.That is when he meets Shmuel, a young Jew.

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.

Friendship, a form of love or companionship between two mutual parties, is exactly what the character Bruno and Shmuel have. Bruno and Shumel forge a meaningful relationship full of trust despite them two living in two completely different worlds. With this in mind, When Bruno and Shumel are herded into the gas chamber together through use of diegetic sound of the dog barking created a sense of suspense and tension however this midst of terror is where their friendship achieves their greatest significance. In the end both boys actually die in one another's arms, with only the comfort of the other to offset the terror of death in the gas chamber. Their trust carries both boys beyond the fear of a lonely death in the Holocaust.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a devastating book about the friendship of two boys that came from two different walks of life. Bruno, is the son of a World War II commandant in charge of Auschwitz. His friend, Shmuel, is a Jewish captive in Auschwitz. Bruno 's sister, Gretel, mother, and father move to a new house, in the middle of the country, next to father’s camp. Bruno and Gretel are homeschooled in order to control what they’re exposed to. Because of them being homeschooled Bruno has no one to play with. Bruno has always dreamed of being a famous adventurer. On the day he moved into his house he noticed he could see his father’s concentration camp from his window. His mother wants to keep Bruno away from the camp so she insisted that he only play in the front yard and in the house. As all little boys do, he ignored his mother’s warnings and decides to go exploring the backyard. While exploring Bruno found the fence of the concentration camp and he began to walk parallel to the fence. He “saw a dot, that became a speck, that became a blob, that became a figure, that became a boy” (Boyne 104) and that boy was Shmuel. They were friends ever since. Well, until they died a horribly ironic death. Everyone should read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas because it shows many different perspectives on the controversial segregation of people; from the innocence of childhood to the stern perspective

Shmuel was a Jew and he was on the other side of the fence. One day Bruno had gone exploring and had found him sitting criss cross. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas says,”“‘You’re my best friend, Shmuel . . . My best friend for life’” (Boyne 213).

Children’s innocence and unconditional love for their parents often unleash terror and abuse. It is impossible not to perceive the author’s hidden parallels: the nation’s that blindly follow their “chosen one” without questioning his decisions and true motifs march to imminent doom. Bruno comes to terms with his new life rather briskly and is perfectly willing to go on as long as he has a pleasant distraction - Shmuel - in his life. He instinctively avoids the question that can expose the horrors of his “best friend’s” existence or his father’s true nature. Even after witnessing the sad reality of the concentration camp with his own eyes, Bruno walks into the gas chamber with an unshakable thought that “... Father was the commandant, and if this was the kind of thing that he wanted the people to do then it must be all right” (Boyne 210). This very school of thought has been luring people into senseless wars and self-ruin from the beginning of time.

The book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, by John Boyne, explores the Holocaust from a child’s viewpoint, and also investigates different characters, personality, and beliefs. The characters Mother, Father, and Bruno are not exclusively good or bad, but are a mixture of both. Mother is a polite woman, who realises her husband’s actions are immoral, but also hides an affair from her family. Father contrasts this by being presented as bad due to his line of work, but ultimately loves and cares for his family. Though Bruno is a child with generally well-intended mannerisms, he often has lapses in understanding which lead to him upsetting others.

John Boyne has gotten bad reviews on his book “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”. Critics say it’s bad, because the holocaust was so much worse then what’s described in the book. One reason the book can be considered bad is because the story is showing the events of a non jew child who’s father is a german officer. Also Bruno, the main character, was completely oblivious of the situation. He had no clue anything bad was happening. John Boyne’s presentation of the events in the holocaust is poor.

They say that ignorance is bliss. That is somewhat true, as not understanding the atrocities in our world would surely make a happier person. However, innocence can also lead to calamity. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne, is a coming of age story about Bruno, the son of a Nazi Commandant under Adolf Hitler. Bruno was initially very ignorant of what was happening in the world and was very immature about moving from Berlin. As the days went by, he got used to his new home and his thoughts were maturing, as he started thinking with logic and rationale. Bruno finally understands that he has to be a good person to everyone regardless what others might think. His character has strongly developed. Despite Bruno being unaware of his situation and his father being a Nazi, he matures from being childish and unsatisfied for moving to finally finding purpose in life by being a good human being.

Bruno is growing up in Berlin, but moves to Auschwitz during World War II, sets out to explore the