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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas During the book The Boy in the Striped pajamas, the historical event know as the holocaust takes place. “An extraordinary tale of friendship, and the horrors of war.”-Irish Independent. The book described a child’s life, and his view of the holocaust. My main goal is to explain to you what happened during The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and explain what relevance it has to history. A nine year old boy named Bruno living in Berlin, Germany forced to move to Auschwitz

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    “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is a historical fiction tale of the unlikeliest of friends; the son of a Nazi commander and a Jewish boy in a concentration camp.The novel begins when Bruno - a nine year old boy - and his family move from their home in Berlin to a new, unfamiliar place in Auschwitz. Bruno misses his friends and becomes bored and curious and wants to explore places he's told he cannot go. One day, he arrives at a fence and sees a young boy sitting on the other side. The boy has no

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    Mark Herman, director of The Boy in Striped Pajamas, provides viewers with a first person perspective throughout the film as shots often display the viewpoint of Bruno, and the style of shots impacts the message of the film by drawing more emotion from an audience. Introducing the first scene through a third person perspective, Herman quickly begins to film from Bruno’s perspective as he hopes to develop the plot completely from the young boy’s view and also draw people emotionally to his side.

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    The Boy in Striped Pajamas is about a boy named Bruno. This book by John Boyne is set in the Nazi Germany during the Holocaust in World War II. He lives in Berlin with his parents, 12 year old sister Gretel, and maids. His father is promoted to Nazi Commandment, and they are forced to move into the town of Auschwitz, Poland. There, they move to a small, dirty house in the middle of nowhere and Bruno decides to call it “Out With”. The Nazis scorn the Jews, so they decide to incarcerate them. This

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    Father (Boyne, 2006, p. 53). During this time period, the Holocaust was currently happening and Father was referring to Jews that were at Auschwitz. Many Jewish people, especially Natzies were not considered as people during this era. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the author, John Boyne, showed how Jews were killed and how they arrived to Auschwitz very accurately; however, the amount of guarding that happened at the camp was a point of inaccuracy because the events that happened in the book could

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a story of two boys who cross limitations in friendship. The fence in the story represents the divide that has been set. This fence represents the boundaries that people give us. Ultimately, the message of the story is that beneath it all, we are all the same. Regardless of our color, religious preferences, or gender, we are all the same and should be judged the same. Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and

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    chose “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” by John Boyne. “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” takes place during the Holocaust during WWII. The Holocaust is one of my favorite topics in history. I'm not exactly sure why I love learning about the topic so much, but I do. The Holocaust was a HUGE part in the German and they Jewish histories. The Holocaust is so much more than just Hitler and his armies killing Jews, it is how people’s lives were completely turned upside down. In my book the boy on the “wrong

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    My book report is about “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” by John Boyne. It takes place in Berlin, Germany for the first chapter but they end up moving to a place called “out-with” for his father’s job. The time it takes place is in 1942. The narrator is Bruno, the little boy. Bruno is also the protagonist. He is the protagonist because he wants to help Shmuel, the jewish boy, and wants to be his friend, and he also keeps him from starving by bringing him food everytime he went to see him. There

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    essay Throughout the book the Boy In striped Pajamas it is clearly shown how themes in the book shape hows Bruno's life paves the way to all the mistakes and adventures he has eventually leading to his untimely death. A good example theme would be irony, Bruno is a German with a Nazi father who literally kills jews as his job, after that Bruno then befriends Shmuel a jew. They are meant to be mortal enemies yet they turn out to be the best of friends yet sadly it leads to Bruno's death. Misconception

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    In The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, the story is told through the eyes of a child. This is very effective because we see the story as it is. There are no opinions or background information in the story, it is simply a series of events. And when we look through a child’s eyes, the story seems to soften and sift. Bruno is a very innocent and naïve, young boy, who is oblivious of the harsh truth of what is really going on around him. He isn’t aware that he is living through one of the largest

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