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The Holocaust. About seven million Jews were killed for their religion and even more were slaughtered from the wrath of the Nazis (ushmm.org). One story during this time period is a historical fiction novel about a nine year old boy named Bruno, a very naive german boy whose family had to move next to a concentration camp. The second protagonist is a Jewish boy named Shmuel, Bruno 's friend. In the end of the book Bruno sneaks into the camp with Shmuel to have one final adventure. But unfortunately the story takes an unpleasant turn, they are both taken away into a gas chamber and the story ends there. Bruno the main protagonist suffers from his lack of knowledge, his naiveness, about the Holocaust. He continuously mispronounces words and creates a happier explanation to the events he’s experiencing. This cost him and Shmuel 's life in the story, but this is not terrible at all. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the …show more content…

On the other hand, others believe it was bad that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the novel because it was confusing about what Bruno was thinking at times. Throughout the novel Bruno used different names thing leaving people confused on what it actually is. For example he said Out-With instead of Auschwitz and Fury instead of Fuhrer. Though that is actually a good thing. It keeps reader wondering what it actually is and makes the book more interesting to read. Readers are encouraged to use their brains and infer what it means, or to look it up and learn something new. Overall Bruno 's nieveness was over all successful for the story.
In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the novel because Bruno’s death created great story writing and if Bruno knew about the Holocaust then The Boy in the Striped Pajamas would have been a whole new story. In the end Bruno should definitely stay naive about the horrors of the

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