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Nine year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country.
All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.
Bruno’s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.
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Feb 15,2013
'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas', by John Boyne, is honestly the best book i have ever read.
Bruno is the main character in this book, he's 9 years old and lives a wealthy lifestyle in Germany with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. His family moves to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command of a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno becomes friends with a child, named Shmuel. He's strangely dressed in striped pyjamas, who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno finds out that he is not permitted to be friends with his Shmuel, as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually concentration camp.
This book makes you reflect on your life, it makes you think about how lucky you really are to have friends and family that love you and that will/are always there for you. This book can make you smille, but most of the time it will make you cry.
Nov 28,2012
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The boy in the stripped pajamas is a wonderful and sad book it's about a boy who moves to a new house called out-with and near itr is a concentration camp he thinks there kids like him but there different there jews his mum sasid not to go there but once his mum left to the shop he went through the forrestand went suddenly he saw a huge gate and there was a little boy they introduced eachother the boys name was Shmuel and Then Bruno they became friends and Bruno visited Shmuel everyday. Bruno heard some bad news that he was gonna go back to Berling so the last he went and visited Shmuel Bruno went under the gate to see Shmuel to find his dad so he *** the pajamas and they went looking but Shmuel Bruno and some other men went in a room they had to take their cloths of and stay there they thought it was a shower but they got burned Bruno's family was devastated
Nov 22,2012
Friendship or family?
Family or friendship?
To think that a young boy has to choose one or the other. An 8 year old boy already making decisions at this time of his life. Is that appropiate? To find out, read the Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Nov 08,2012
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Bruno is a nine-year old boy growing up in Berlin during World War II. He lives with servants, his mother and father and his 12 year old sister in a 5 story house. His father had a job upgrade and was told that he would have to move to a place called outwith if he wanted to keep the job. When Bruno got there he started to feel homesick. He had left his school, his best friends, his house, his grandparents and the busy street life of Berlin. His new home is smaller, full of soldiers and there is no one to play with. From his bedroom window. while he was admiring the trees he noticed a big, long wire fence, and on the other side he saw a bunch of people in striped pyjamas. He asked hid dad who they were and he replied “they arent really people”. One day he followed the wire fences trail. He notices a dot in the distance on the other side of the fence and as he gets closer, he notices it's a boy. Excited by the thought of having a friend Bruno introduces himself. The Jewish boy's name is Shmuel. Almost every day, they meet at the same spot and talk. But one day, Bruno decides to climb under the fence and look at Shmuel's home.
