Rhetorical Analysis Of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

During the 1200 Jews would do a sacrificial ritual by fire for god, they would call this holokauston. Later historians took this word and joined it with the mass genocide of the Jews during the 1940’s. John Boyne’s Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a historical Fiction Book set in the 1940’s or World War II. The overall book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was marvelous because it provides a clear theme, and the author uses great rhetoric to persuade the audience how awful the Holocaust was.

Firstly, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is set during World War II Bruno has just moved with his entire family from Berlin, to a more rural part of Germany. Their house is completely isolated besides the Jewish concentration camp they live next to Called Auschwitz

This relationship in the story helped deepen the rhetoric. In the story Bruno said, “The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They’re all dressed the same.” Then Bruno’s father says, “Ah, those people, those people…well, they’re not people at all Bruno…..Well, at least not as we understand the term.” (Boyne, 53). In this part of the world, German’s are being taught that Jews aren’t real people. This helps emphasize that Shmuel and Bruno can’t really have a normal friendship because of what Shmuel is, a Jew. The really helped deepen the stories rhetoric by showing what the Nazi’s were doing was wrong. The historical vision was very narrow, this book taken place in World War II, only talked about one topic, which was the holocaust. A few advantages of using just this one topic was to deepen the rhetoric. The author uses pathos throughout the book to help persuade the audience through emotion that what the Nazi’s were doing was awful. At the very end of the book it says, “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.” (Boyne, 213) This quote touches the reader’s emotions. This quote shows that in order for both of them to be normal friends, they had to die doing so. This shows how awful these Nazi’s were wiping out millions