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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas- Reflecting Questions Does viewing The Boy in the Striped Pajamas fill you with despair or hope? Why? Explain. Defend your opinion with references to key scenes from the film. Watching The Boy in the Striped Pajamas filled me with despair because of the way they treated the Jews. In the movie, Bruno goes away from Schmuel when he says that he is Jewish. This filled me with despair because I was shocked that a young boy was also taught to stay away and not talk to any of Jews. Secondly, in the movie Bruno refuses to recognize Schmuel when Lieutenant Kotler asks him if he knows him. Bruno knew how bad it was to talk to the Jews and so to prevent himself from getting punished, he …show more content…

Once everyone was in the chamber, a German man released the gas and everyone in the chamber die, including Bruno. The death of Bruno led to his family finally realizing that what they were doing and the way they were treating the Jews, was wrong. One thing that I appreciated about the film was the way the director emphasized the fact that no one is born to hate. In this film, Bruno is an innocent, young boy whose father is a German Lieutenant-Colonel. Bruno was not born with hate for the Jews, he was taught to. He was taught by his mother and then, his tutor. His mother did not directly tell him to hate Jews, however, she would tell him to stay away and not talk to them. For example, in the movie Bruno wants to go explore the area in his backyard and make new friends— the famers (the Jews), but when he would try, his mother would stop him and tell him to stay away. Secondly, in the movie, Bruno's tutor gives him a book to read about the Jews. This was another indirect way of spreading hate for the Jews in Bruno's heart because the book was written from a German's perspective. Being the son

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In both stories the protagonist have and feel as if they have little to no power in the direction of which their life is heading. Shmuel the Jewish boy that Bruno befriends in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas does not really talk about or try to explain to Bruno what is really happening to him or even to try and ask Bruno why his people are doing this to his people. Bruno and Shmuel do

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[Ch.19 p.208] At this point in the novel, Bruno has crossed over to the other side. For the first time he sees what really goes on in the camp, and he quickly becomes very uncomfortable. From Bruno’s point of view we are able to understand some of things that occur inside the camp, for example; Nazis walking around with

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Then, he feels depressed for a few days and starts going to the backyard and finds a window which lead to him in a different world than he lives in. Also, he made a new friend named Schmuel and started going there regularly to play with him. Because of, not telling Bruno that he now lives near a concentration camp, he never knew not to go there. Instead, he thinks it’s a farm and crawls inside with Schmuel at last and by wearing “pajamas”. As a result of this, Bruno and Schmuel, both get thrown into the gas chamber and get killed at the end.

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In the following paragraph, I will describe to you the different arguments that the Federalists and Anti-Federalists had with ratifying the Constitution. Our Constitution should involve focusing on the common good and civic virtue of the people. There is no need for an overwhelming amount of power provided for the national government to where they make all of the decisions for us. A Bill of Rights would give us such things as the right to speak freely and make our own decisions that we, as a people, think is necessary for the common good. This writing will describe all of these points that support the Anti-Federalists and the reason to reject the new Constitution.

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Many statements like this throughout the story represents the misunderstanding our character has with very important matters. Being at such a young age, Bruno doesn’t know many phrases or their meanings, leading his innocent mind to think of a rational solution, what many did when they didn’t know what would

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In the Boy in the Striped Pajamas it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the novel because if he knew he might of caused more trouble and might be mad at everyone. Secondly it could of have caused him to have bad depression his whole life. The first reason why it’s good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust

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The plot in both mediums follows the fictional account of the relationship between an incarcerated Jewish boy and Bruno, a Nazi officer's son. Ending in the death of both boys, both the novel and the film use the image of two boys separated by a fence to expose persons to such barriers, not only those existing in Nazi Germany, but also those that currently “exist all over the world.” This “moral” is the fundamental core of both presentations of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. By portraying the possible innocence of some

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a novel about the a boy named Bruno growing up in Nazi Germany. His father’s job includes military work for the Fuhrer and is promoted to Auschwitz, a Holocaust concentration camp. Bruno and his family has to move with his father there and Bruno decides he wants to go home. Then, he meets Shmuel, a Jewish child imprisoned in the camp and they quickly bond as friends. Eventually, their friendship leads to each of their demise when Bruno helps Shmuel in looking for his father.

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Families being torn apart, being ripped from everything they’ve known growing up and being isolated within a camp where no one truly knows what’s happening to them. That’s what was going on in the life of the Jews during WWII, they were being treated as if they were no longer human, being tossed in concentration camps and given just a number to identify them, completely taking away their self importance. The atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust are being subtly portrayed in the movie “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas,”directed by Mark Herman, a story told from the eyes of an eight year old boy named Bruno and his unlikely friendship with a Jewish boy named Shmuel. The movie tells the story of how a young boy begins to realize what kind of solder his father truly is and what is going on during WWII as his parents had kept him enclosed in this idea that all is well in the world. Through the use of imagery, colors, and pathos Mark Herman successfully portrays the horrors of the Holocaust through the innocent and peculiar friendship of two nine year old boys, Bruno and Shmuel.

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“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” The movie, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas begins the story in Germany. This movie tells the awful story of the holocaust and what happened. It is supposed to expose all truths of the holocaust. You learn about a young German boy named Bruno who is forced to move to Poland because his father is promoted in his job. Bruno makes a friend, a Jewish friend, who is in a concentration camp and the story goes from there.

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Overall, Boyne’s novel ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ demonstrates the lives of innocent young children during the Holocaust, through the main character Bruno. Bruno is completely ignorant to the horrors of the Holocaust and therefore doesn’t understand what the camp is and who everyone is in “striped pyjamas” are. His naivety becomes apparent in his understanding of words and his limited vocabulary. It becomes evident in the last scene that Bruno’s innocence and ignorance led to his

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As time goes on in his new home he meets a boy around his age behind a barbed wired fence. They become friends even though it’s forbidden for them to communicate and they try to see each other as much as they can. Both the boys have no clue on what is going on. Shmuel, the Jewish boy said that the officers took their clothes away so that’s why they wear the striped pajamas. One day Bruno sees Shmuel cleaning the dishes and informs him that they are supposed to be enemies but instead offers him some food.

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This was the beginning of their friendship created during tough times of the Holocaust. The races of Jews and Germans were separated after World War I and Jews were put into concentration camps run by the Nazis. This quote shows that Bruno did not want to disagree with his friend Shmuel even though they did not share the same ideas. Both boys knew the differences they had, but they put them aside and became friends. In

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