The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Research Paper

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Jayvontae Wright MLA Essay Alice Berry March 22, 2015 MLA Essay In The book “The Boy in Striped Pajamas” by John Boyne, the main character, Bruno, is friends with someone very different from him in this point of time. Bruno is a young German boy, who is friends with a prisoner from Auschwitz who is also the same age as him named Shmuel. The boy Shmuel is Jewish and was token from his family and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Throughout the story Bruno finds out what it feels like to attend a concentration camp by hearing stories by Shmuel, and also at a point of time being snuck in to the concentration camp. Bruno is the son of a commandant and Shmuel is a young Jewish boy. One day Bruno is walking down a long fence in the back of his house looking for someone on…show more content…
Bruno starts a conversation with the boy. The boy tells Bruno his name is Shmuel; that’s how they meet. Bruno asks Shmuel “why are there so many people on your side of the fence?” (115) and Shmuel answer his question by explaining his experience. Telling Bruno about how his mother made him wear a wrist band with a star on it every time he walked out the house, the sign on their wristband was the Star of David, and Bruno father had a wrist band that had the Nazi sign on it. Shmuel tells Bruno he remembers the day people with same wrist band as Bruno’s father came and took him and everybody else from their home beating on them and packing them into large trucks. Shmuel says “It was horrible…. There was no air to breathe. And it smelled awful” (129). Bruno didn’t believe him, he didn’t want to believe the German people were like that (130).In chapter nineteen ad twenty Shmuel tells Bruno that his father is nowhere to be found and Bruno tells him that he we be leaving Out-With, and Shmuel suggest that Bruno comes on his side of the fence and help

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