Bruno’s innocence and his friendship with Shmuel will ultimately have catastrophic results on his life and that of his family’s.īook Review: The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Starved for company, Bruno’s explorations lead him to meet a new friend, Shmuel, a boy his own age who, for reasons Bruno cannot understand, looks like a small sad bony caricature of a normal boy. The dreaded concentration camp as seen through Bruno’s eyes is simply a place of many, many long huts and the people who wear an odd sort of striped pyjamas. He is unimpressed by the small man with his tiny ineffectual moustache. Indeed, he is also unaware of the horrors being perpetrated at the command of the German leader, the Fury, who visits the family one evening. When his father is promoted to Commandant in the German army and his family is transferred from their comfy home in Berlin to a strange place called Out-With, nine year-old Bruno has no idea of the true nature of his new surroundings. Theme: Innocence and Ignorance, Family and Friendship, Holocaustīook Summary: The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Setting Place: Berlin, Germany and Auschwitz, Poland Major Characters: Bruno, Gretel, Shmuel, Lieutenant Kotler, Pavel Bruno’s Mother and Father, Eva Braun
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