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    The film called “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is about an eight year old boy named Bruno (protagonist), who came from a governmental level anti-semitic environment. Interesting enough when watching the historical movie several props and costumes were used to tell the story of the Nazi and Jewish lifestyle during that era such as posters, books and clothings. Bruno and his family ends up leaving an upscale residential area in Berlin which at one point was his happy place called home and moving

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    In the book, The boy in the striped pajamas, by John Boyne, we get introduced to a sweet, innocent, young boy named Bruno. He faces countless amounts of challenges with Holocaust fears but ends up discovering something that impacted his life forever. It all starts with the move. Bruno’s father was a Nazi soldier and he had to relocate to ‘help’ his country. So, Bruno’s family moved from Berlin, all the way to Auschwitz. “The house in Berlin stood on a quiet street and alongside it were a handful

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    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

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    The novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne is a book that will give you a heap of different emotions. This fictional tale contains the unlikeliest of friends: The son of a Nazi commandant and a Jewish concentration camp inmate. Each of the components that I chose made me want to read more. The components each had some detail of how Bruno was not taught well about what was going on. Bruno was not taught well of what was going on. For example, one of the components shows how both Bruno

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    A theme of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is fear can prevent people from protecting each other. Two characters that unlikely become friends develop this theme. Bruno is the son of a Nazi officer, while Shmuel is a Jewish prisoner in a concentration camp. The boys being so innocent keeps them from learning the truth about how hard life is for Jews in Nazi Poland. This allows them to form a friendship. The point of view being 3rd person omniscient develops the theme because when you know the characters

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, written by John Boyne. The sorrowful, but at the same time thrilling book is taking you back to the WW2 and the holocaust, giving you goosebumps while reading because of the beautiful story about the friendship between two young boys, showing that the war can’t take their friendship away from them. When Bruno finds out that he and his family is moving from Berlin to “Out-With” he’s devastated and it doesn’t get better when they arrived to “Out-With”. Bruno is sad

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    Written by John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was published January 5, 2006. It tells the story of a friendship formed by Shmuel, a Jewish boy who has been took to a concentration camp and Bruno, the son of a Nazi army commander. It is written during the time of the Holocaust, so friendships among the two were not common, but because the children were so young, they did not know that they were considered different from each other. The story begins with Bruno coming home from school to discover

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, directed by Mark Herman, was produced on August 28, 2008. This is a movie took place in Berlin during World War II, also known as the Holocaust. During this movie the author shows the world through an eight year old oblivious, German soldier's child. As the movie goes into depth, it slowly grows on the viewer, allowing them to feel an overwhelming sensation of joy and sadness at the same time. This movie consists of two protagonist, both which have the same birthdays

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    text? A theme of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is sometimes fear prevents people from doing what they want to do. The theme of the excerpt is developed by three main characters in the chapter. Bruno, the son of a Nazi SS officer, is friends with Shmuel, a Jewish boy who lives in a concentration camp near Bruno’s home. Lieutenant Kotler is the third major character he is also the antagonist of the excerpt. The antagonist in this section sets fear in the hearts of both boys’. The point of view in

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    At the end of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne, the two main characters, Shmuel and Bruno, die together in the gas chamber, there are ultimately several people who are responsible for Bruno’s death. At the beginning of the book, Bruno’s father gets a promotion as the head officer of Auschwitz. Due to this Bruno and his family must move to a house that is right next to the camp. While they are there, Bruno meets a friend, Shmuel, they have a lot in common except for one thing, Shmuel

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