The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Research Paper

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Friendship can be many things such as helping a friend with homework, or helping them cope with sadness, or just chilling at the fence with your buddy Shmuel during the Holocaust. The role of friendship is important throughout the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. Characters like Bruno, Shmuel, Mother, an Pavel all show how friendship played à big role in the novel and helped to pass the time or made time stand still. Bruno, Shmuel an Pavel are able to break barriers of prejudice to see each others true self and Mother wasn't able to be her true self in the novel because she was lonely and didn't have friends.

Bruno, à boy raised in à family of Nazi ideals, and Shmuel, a Jewish boy, create à bond of friendship despite coming