Boy In The Striped Pajamas Literary Analysis

Understanding the nature of man enables one to predict behavioral outcomes. Regardless of region, culture, background, or training, man either fights his most basic or primal urges or succumbs to them and the consequences of them. Writers realize this and use their craft to compose stories illustrating man’s victory, his struggle, his fall, and his redemption. C.S. Lewis and John Boyne differ in style; however, both enthrall readers with their unique and matchless works. Even though the authors of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas and The Screwtape Letters use different formats to entertain their audience, both reveal key points such man’s manipulative, hateful, and naive natures. The characters throughout the novel and the movie both use manipulation as a tool to get what they strive for. For example, Screwtape tells Wormwood in The Screwtape Letters to use jargon as a form of deception (1-2). In order for Wormwood to lead his patient off of the straight path, Screwtape encourages him to twist words around and to confuse word …show more content…
The protagonist in The Screwtape Letters, Wormwood, can be concluded to be an ingenuous character. Screwtape suspects him of being credulous when his manipulation methods prove to be out of date and inoperative (1). Secondly, Bruno acts unworldly in Boyne’s storyline when he views a mediocre video about the Jews’ lifestyle in the concentration camp. Instead of interrogating whether the film is fraudulent or legitimate, he unquestionably believes the film’s authenticity. Ultimately, Gretel appears to be an artless individual when she sonorously relies on her tutor’s opinion of the Jews. Rather than drawing her own conclusions about this group of people, she rashly takes his opinion as her own. While contemplating The Boy In The Striped Pajamas and The Screwtape Letters, onlookers observe the instinctive natures that mankind