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The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas Essay

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Name of Novel: The Boy in the Striped pyjamas
Author: John Boyne
Year of Publish: 2006
Genre: War
Reason for selection: My sisters told me to read it when i was 10 after i read once, then, now and after and then i decided to give it a go and i thoroughly enjoyed it.

A: Adolf Hitler known as the fury in the book (a less complicated version of führer). Bruno describes him as a man with a mustache that should be just shaved off, and very rude man with no manners

B: Bruno
Bruno is a curious boy full of adventure and when he is older he wants to travel the world he can be very stubborn and unwilling at change and can get lonely and is easily bored Berlin berlin is the city in germany which bruno used to live with his family. …show more content…

we hope you never cross such a fence. and that explains a lot about the story

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F:Fury (aka Adolf Hitler)
The fury is the way bruno's family pronounce führer excluding their father fence the fence in this story is definitely a fence you don't want to cross it is one of the main points after you get into the story friendship one of the morals of the story is friendship the author talks about losing friends and making a good one closer than ever before
G: genocide this is when Shmuel, Bruno and a bunch of other people go into a room and get killed Gretel
Gretel is bruno's older sister and is often referred to as a hopeless case by bruno Germany germany is a country in which the story is based in
H:Holocaust
one of the ways that bruno and the jewish people were most likely killed by hopeless case this is how bruno describes his sister as eg and the hopeless case hatred
Bruno's father and the other german soldiers hated the jews pretty much creating the story human

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