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The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Argumentative Essay

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Argumentative Essay The Holocaust was a very terrifying and scary time for people in Germany, throughout Europe, and other places throughout the world. For example, “ By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European jews…” (ushmm.org). For the most part jews were killed during this time, but others were killed also. It was a very important time in history. Bruno in the book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was completely naive to this even though he was friends with a jew named Shmuel. He was kept from this because his parents were making it that way. It was bad that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust because it made it so that Bruno wasn’t the friend he could have been to Shmuel and it led to both of them getting killed in a gas chamber. …show more content…

Bruno didn’t know it was so wrong to be a Jew. He didn’t understand why his friend was the way he was. If he would have been told, Shmuel and Bruno would have a lot more to talk about and Bruno would be able to help him get through it. Bruno should have used better words than what he used with Shmuel but he didn’t know. For example Bruno said, “ I don’t see why I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there is nobody to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends probably playing for hours a day…” (Boyne, 110). Bruno should have known about the holocaust and should not have been naive, if this was the case, he would have had a very different perspective and better friends with

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