In the book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne and the movie by the same name directed by Mark Herman, both express how a boy named Bruno, his sister Gretel, and their father Ralf(Commandant),how their views and interpretations of the world change dramatically when they are forced to move away from their home in Berlin to a concentration camp where their Father’s new work is.
Bruno undergoes this change of worldviews in the book about ¾ of the way. ”What happened next...that went on at Out-With, then he’d better not disagree with anyone,”(pg 148). Bruno realized that since he is the son of a Nazi Commandant, he cannot disagree that what the Germans are doing is wrong, and frankly he does not understand what the Germans are doing. Still, he cannot disagree or say anything negative about the Germans. In the movie, Bruno never realizes that the Germans are doing something bad or anything of that sort. At the end of the movie when they are forced into the gas chamber, Bruno says “I think they are putting us …show more content…
“...and when he did...and when the soldiers came to take him away, he went willingly, happy to be away from Out-With,”(pg 215). These soldiers are the Allies coming to arrest him for war-crimes. And when they come to arrest him, he has given up on life because he has realized what he was doing with all those Jews, the suffering and death. In the movie, the Father also realizes this in the end, when Bruno is missing and use dogs to track him to the camp where the Mother and Gretel stop where his clothes are. Only when the Father sees the empty hut does he realize what must have happened to Bruno.The movie expressed this gain of knowledge through scary music, thunder, rain, and camera zooming in on the Father’s face when he sees the empty hut, only after he knows that Bruno is dead does he realize the pain and suffering and death he has given all these
Bruno undergoes this change of worldviews in the book about ¾ of the way. ”What happened next...that went on at Out-With, then he’d better not disagree with anyone,”(pg 148). Bruno realized that since he is the son of a Nazi Commandant, he cannot disagree that what the Germans are doing is wrong, and frankly he does not understand what the Germans are doing. Still, he cannot disagree or say anything negative about the Germans. In the movie, Bruno never realizes that the Germans are doing something bad or anything of that sort. At the end of the movie when they are forced into the gas chamber, Bruno says “I think they are putting us …show more content…
“...and when he did...and when the soldiers came to take him away, he went willingly, happy to be away from Out-With,”(pg 215). These soldiers are the Allies coming to arrest him for war-crimes. And when they come to arrest him, he has given up on life because he has realized what he was doing with all those Jews, the suffering and death. In the movie, the Father also realizes this in the end, when Bruno is missing and use dogs to track him to the camp where the Mother and Gretel stop where his clothes are. Only when the Father sees the empty hut does he realize what must have happened to Bruno.The movie expressed this gain of knowledge through scary music, thunder, rain, and camera zooming in on the Father’s face when he sees the empty hut, only after he knows that Bruno is dead does he realize the pain and suffering and death he has given all these