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Boy In The Striped Pajamas Thesis

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Think of a man named Hitler, who killed 6 million Jews. During the Holocaust, a lot of Jews died from Hitler and his soldiers actions. These people he killed people, called Jews, the Nazis were very cruel and treated the Jews poorly. So they put them in concentration camps and killed all of them slowly, they killed most of them by gassing them and they also killed them by shooting them. In the book The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, Bruno was living in a place called Berlin then his dad got a promotion and the had to move to Out-With which is where he met Shmuel. They became friends but then a year later, he crossed the fence and was marched to a gas chamber which is where the story between Shmuel and Bruno came to an end. In The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, it was bad that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust because his naivety led to his death and it also would have led to his future if it wasn’t ended so soon. In the book The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, it was bad that Bruno was naive because it led to him, marching into a gas chamber. “‘ You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.’ Shmuel may well have opened his mouth to say something back, but Bruno never heard it because at that moment there was a loud gasp …show more content…

In the book The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, Shmuel was beaten because Bruno didn’t tell Kurt that Shmuel and him were friends and they knew each other but if he did then he might have gotten hurt even more. One afternoon Shmuel had a black eye, and when Bruno asked him about it he just shook his head and said that he didn’t want to talk about it (Boyne 150). Bruno felt an urge to help his friend but he couldn’t think of anything he could do to make it better, and he could tell that SHmuel wanted to pretend it had never happened (Boyne 150). This is another reason why it was bad that Bruno was naive about the

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