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The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Movie And Book Comparison

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John Boyne is a very well-known author who has earned a lot of respect over the years. The Boy in The Striped Pajamas is a book about a German boy named Bruno whose dad was Nazi general. In The Boy at The Top of The Mountain Pierrot is a French boy who was adopted by Adolf Hitler. In the books, the characters, themes, conflicts, and settings are all similar. The author shows that the similar similar storylines of both books set the general tone for the two stories. “I’m going to run away then.” Bruno(the main character in The Boy in The Striped Pajamas) is showing that he’s not putting up with this anymore.”Over the mountains and into the unseen world beyond” Perriot(The main character in The Boy at The Top Of The Mountain)wants to break free and just go where people aren't and where he can be free. The characters are very similar on their thoughts and what hey want to do with there life and how they want to do it. …show more content…

The theme of The Boy at The Top of The Mountain is to face your fears and solve your own problems. “Something must be done. Not for just him, but for all the Pierrot’s out there.” He’s stating that there are other people out there who need the same help Perriot does. In The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, Bruno states “There was one part of him that remembered that he loved his old life. Brun is regretting his decisions because he is wanting his old life back. In both stories, Bruno and Pierrot have many regrets and wished they could go back to the way things use to

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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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The stories each involve a father and son conflict such as, ‘My son turned ten just the other day he said, “Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let’s play can you teach me to throw”, I said “Not today I got a lot to do”, he said, “That’s ok”’ stated by Harry Chapin in “Cat’s in the Cradle”. This issue is displayed in both stories because neither father was involved much in their lives creating conflict. Person versus person is shown in each story. For example, in “A Boy Named Sue” Sue and his

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The boy in the striped pajamas comparative writing In class we read and watched ‘the boy in the striped pajamas’, a novel about WW2. Both, the book and the movie have many similarities, however they also have their own elements that make them their own. For example, they tell the same story, yet they are still different. In this document, I will be explaining the differences of the characters, events, additional details and the ending between the book and the movie. CHARACTERS

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Now what is opposite of fear and hope in each evidence. In the Diary of Anne Frank, Anne might not have all hope. She can have fear from the whole household not getting along and her separating from Margot and Mom. Also the fear of being found is one. In the Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, Shmuel has Bruno to get him out of the trouble and not get beaten.

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Essay for QA/ “A Christmas Carol” Personally, I like the filmed version of “A Christmas Carol” better than the written version. I think that it has a synthetic feeling, and you really know what is happening. Just some of the details in the movie are spot on. It shows emotion, feeling, action, horror.

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This is a confusing, powerful story set during World War II where wealthy ignorant boy meets an “out-with” Jew. the film stays true to the book through the plot where Bruno dies, And deviates through the mother 's character and the resolution. Since Bruno died of the same reason in both the film version and the book, it shows how the film stayed true to the book. Bruno had left to go to the Concentration Camp with Shmuel thinking they would just go find Shmuel’s father and Say Goodbye.

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After Reading, Night, and watching the boy in the striped pajamas, I kind of get a view of how the conditions were at the different camps, and a view on how the Germans lived their lives. In the movie Bruno lives the life of a regular boy who loves to play outdoors and play with friends but he doesn’t understand that the Jews aren’t treated like him. In, Night, Ellie suffers a lot in most of the camps he even suffers before he and his family get transported to the first camp. Bruno believes that inside the camp is fun and amazing that the Jews are having a great time there but, really the Jews would rather be out there living their normal lives and working their own jobs.

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(Boyne,27) In this, she is referring to being forced to move to Auschwitz due to her husband’s job, but she is also implying that she does not agree with the decisions her husband makes for her. In the book, most characters are unwilling and have little to no control over their lives, which to many people is the worst way to live. Bruno and Shmuel are just kids, so they cannot grasp what is all happening. Bruno says “I don't see why I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there’s no one to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends and are probably playing for hours every day.

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Bruno then sticks up for Shmuel telling

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In 2008, Mirimax Films released it's emotional dramatization of John Boyne's novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Starring Asa Butterfield, this award-winning film poignantly tells “a fable” centering around the Auschwitz concentration camp. Receiving mixed reviews, it has both been extolled for its singular treatment of the Holocaust, as well as having been criticized for ignoring some of the factual horrors of concentration camp life. What is nearly universally accepted, is that director Mark Herman has created an accurate counterpart to Boyne's 2006 novel, with the exception of a few minor details. Novel and film share all major, critical elements.

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Bruno was lead to a gas chamber and was killed by the hands of his own father. This novel shows the tortures of WW11 and how by not knowing enough could lead to something irreversible. If Bruno’s family would have just explained to him what was going on the whole situation could have ended differently and the family wouldn’t have been ripped

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Moreover, he decided to explore in that direction despite what he saw and experienced just from his window. In the second piece of evidence, Bruno is showing his view to Gretel, his sister. “‘Look over there,’ said Bruno… and saw a group of children being shouted at by a group of soldiers” (Boyne, 37). This shows the theme ‘All life’s decisions come with consequences’ because, like the previous example, Bruno decided to show others the scene and invoke fear into them.

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10 Open questions for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas(Revised Questions) Give an example of when one character were ignorant towards what they were doing. When Bruno hollarded “Heil Hitler” he thought it was a saying for goodbye. This further employs Bruno’s lack of knowledge of the weight behind “Heil Hitler” when Maria’s expression shows her to be upset as the man Bruno is yelling in tribute to Hitler is the same person who wants to eradicate her ethnic group. Describe the present themes in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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The majority of movies stay true to their previously written novel, but this is not the case for the novel and film of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas. The mediums of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas are about a young boy named Bruno who moves from Berlin to Out-With (Auschwitz). As he goes exploring, Bruno “discovers” a boy his age named Shmuel. Sadly, the boys are separated by a large fence. What Bruno does not know though, is that that fence is there to divide his people from Shmuel’s because of their vastly different ways.

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Before the deaths of Bruno and Shmuel, Bruno grabs Shmuel ’s hand. This is symbolic as there naivety led to their inseparable friendship between two very different boys. Boyne has shown that Bruno’s innocence ultimately led to his death just like many other children of the Holocaust.

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