How Is The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas Predictable

In the 1900’s, lives were often determined through what Ethnic group you belonged to, or your beliefs. The Germans held Jews, homosexuals and gypsies in concentration camps during World War two, because they discriminated ‘those people.’ In the novel “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” written by John Boyne. The ending had an obvious outcome from the events coming towards it. The key points I will be discussing will be how Bruno's death was predictable, how some parts were unpredictable and how it worked together for the obvious outcome.

The big wall that outcasted Jews from Germans did not stop Bruno from befriending a Jew. Bruno had always gathered to meet Shmuel on almost a daily basis almost mimicking Shmuel's every move, and always insisted to go over to the other side of the fence and play. When Bruno was affected with lice he was forced to get a haircut like every Jew, when ‘Father’ cuts

“I look just like you now, said Bruno sadly, as if this was a terrible thing to admit.” This means if Bruno put on the Pyjamas the Soldiers would escort any living thing to death. The effect on the reader from this is they know what the outcome will be, this is because Bruno looks like identical to a Jew and is going to wear the Pyjamas to top everything off and going to the ‘other side,’ the outcome would be obvious. In Africa when the Americans came to enslave they did not care if they had feelings, they saw that they were wearing these metaphorical Pyjamas that made them so different from them. This shows that many people don’t act before they do, and in this novel, Bruno could be saved, but in reality, a lot of kids could have. This is because if people did not discriminate because of the ‘Pyjamas’ someone is wearing there would be no-one outcasted. The idea is that we are all the same and this links to World War two because just recently Germans have accepted that Jews, gypsies and homosexuals, are human and all