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Boy In The Striped Pajamas Comparison

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The main characters of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne and Bruno, can be contrastive of each other. However, they are alike in their thoughts, actions, morals, and the fact that they are on opposite sides of the same story. Both children are born around the time of World War II and face the challenges associated with the war. In addition, the book and the play themselves are set apart in the way they are brought to life. Anne and Bruno share the commonality of being affected by a single event, World War II. In the exposition of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, both characters are forced to move from their homes because of the war. For Anne and her family, it is to hide from the Nazis so that they are not sent away to concentration camps. It is quite evident that Anne’s family is hiding away when …show more content…

Although they are both young, Bruno is nine and Anne is thirteen causing her to be less naive than Bruno. For instance, Bruno does not know of his father’s job, nor does he know about concentration camps. “All he could say was that his father was a man to watch and that the Fury had big things in mind for him. Oh, and that he had a fantastic uniform too” (Boyne 5). Throughout the story, Bruno believes the people on the other side of the fence in concentration camps are lucky because they get to wear “striped pajamas” all day and play. Yet Anne knows that her life is constantly at stake and writes of her fears in her journal. In The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne is a Jew in a secret Annex in Holland, while Bruno is a German who resides in Poland for much of the story. While Anne can clearly see that the Germans are opposing the Jews, it is hard for little Bruno to understand that it is wartime, and the Jews and the Germans believe in staying separate. In fact, while exploring he befriends a Jew from the “other side” of the

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They were both looked down upon and judged by the government and other citizens. In the book, Farewell to Manzanar, on page eight it states,” … yet after thirty-five years here he was still prevented by law from becoming an American citizen. He was suddenly a man with no country who looked exactly like the enemy.” In the play about Anne Frank on page seven- hundred and three explained that many Jews were deprived of going places, owning businesses, and were discriminated by the government for their religious affiliation. Another similarity between Anne and Jeanne was that they matured during the duration of their stories.

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The Frank Family were stuck in the Secret Annex with another Jewish family. However, even in this bad situation, Anne Frank looks towards the positive things. As stated in The Diary of a Young Girl, “As for us, we’re quite fortunate. Luckier than millions of people. It’s quiet and safe here, and we’re using our money to buy food.”

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Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during the occupation by the Nazis. She was forced to go into hiding above her father's work for two years to avoid prison. During her time in hiding, she kept a diary and wrote about her experience. Frank writes about her loving and compassionate family and also mentions how she has built new relationships with the other families in the house. In her diaries, Frank frequently emphasizes the value of family, emphasizing how her trials were made easier by the presence of those she loved who understood what she was going through.

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In both stories the protagonist have and feel as if they have little to no power in the direction of which their life is heading. Shmuel the Jewish boy that Bruno befriends in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas does not really talk about or try to explain to Bruno what is really happening to him or even to try and ask Bruno why his people are doing this to his people. Bruno and Shmuel do

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Anne Frank True, genuine courage is rare, especially in children. Many feign to have this aspect, but in reality only a select few exceed courage. From 1933 to 1945, Jews lived in fear, not one was safe. In the horrible time of the Holocaust, Jewish people of all ages and conditions were harassed and even executed.

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Children during the Holocaust were targeted because they were weak and small, and the Nazis wanted strong and independent Jews who were willing to work, but some children were strong and were able to work in labor camps. The lives of children inside the camps grew up with the grim memories of being separated from loved ones by death and torture. Hitler’s goal was to destroy a whole entire race and by targeting the kids, this would be a faster way of killing many innocent Jews. Depending on the age of the child and the gender, would determine whether or not that child would live because the Germans would rather prefer the boys over girls. The boys were known to be more stronger and more independent than girls, that is why girls would be separated

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With Bruno from The Boy in The Striped Pajamas being the son of a Nazi and Anne from The Diary of Anne Frank being a Jew in hiding, the two both express the message of goodness in the hearts of everyone. The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas are two very different stories. Anne Frank is a Jewish teenager living in hiding from nazis. Throughout the story Anne is wise in her years and is very aware of her family’s situation.

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This story is abut a girl that was writing her daily days while she was in the holocaust She was venting her fears and frustrations, and contemplating her everyday life. She was given the diary as a present from her parents in 1942, and named it Kitty. Through her diary writing, Anne Frank was in many ways her own counsellor in a time of great suffering and tribulation. She realized that writing down her thoughts and feelings could help her cope with the anxiety of the war and Nazi persecution.

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Anne Frank’s Character Development Throughout the War Throughout World War II Anne Frank was kept hidden away in a 500 square foot building they came to call the Secret Annexe. Anne Frank, her family, and the Van Daans endured difficult times of hunger, thirst, and lack of privacy cornered by walls for over two years. Anne confided her observations and feelings of the hard times within her diary she named Kitty. By writing in her diary both before and after the war, one could visibly notice how Anne went into the Annexe as a juvenile and came out as a young adult.

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But unfortunately the story takes an unpleasant turn, they are both taken away into a gas chamber and the story ends there. Bruno the main protagonist suffers from his lack of knowledge, his naiveness, about the Holocaust. He continuously mispronounces words and creates a happier explanation to the events he’s experiencing. This cost him and Shmuel 's life in the story, but this is not terrible at all. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the

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Families being torn apart, being ripped from everything they’ve known growing up and being isolated within a camp where no one truly knows what’s happening to them. That’s what was going on in the life of the Jews during WWII, they were being treated as if they were no longer human, being tossed in concentration camps and given just a number to identify them, completely taking away their self importance. The atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust are being subtly portrayed in the movie “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas,”directed by Mark Herman, a story told from the eyes of an eight year old boy named Bruno and his unlikely friendship with a Jewish boy named Shmuel. The movie tells the story of how a young boy begins to realize what kind of solder his father truly is and what is going on during WWII as his parents had kept him enclosed in this idea that all is well in the world. Through the use of imagery, colors, and pathos Mark Herman successfully portrays the horrors of the Holocaust through the innocent and peculiar friendship of two nine year old boys, Bruno and Shmuel.

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