Is The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Justified

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Imagine, your rights taken away, being thrown into a death camp with nothing but a pair of black and white striped pajamas and a cap. Imagine being nine years old and forced to move away from your best friends to live with your father who is the commandant of the death camp ( Auschwitz ). This boy, Bruno, had hundreds of suffering Jews all around him, but he was totally oblivious to it. In The Boy in Striped Pajamas, it was bad the Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the novel, because he died from this and he could have saved many lives.

Bruno could have been considered naive due to the fact that he was completely unaware of what was going on. If Bruno wouldn’t have been so naive he could have saved his life. Bruno could have stayed at home and not become friends with Shmuel …show more content…

If Bruno would have stayed home and had not gone to explored the camp and met Shmuel he would not have had a reason to climb over the fence and get killed.”Bruno raised an eyebrow, unable to understand the sense of all this, but he assumed that it had something to do with keeping the rain out and stopping people from catching colds. And then the room went very dark and somehow, despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let it go”, this represents the friendship they had by stating that Bruno would not let go of Shmuel's hand. If Bruno would not have been so naive he would have got out of the camp hours ago and or he would have never even crawled into the