Boy In The Striped Pajamas Movie Vs Book

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Have you ever said to yourself, “This is so unfair…”? Well, If you have, you are not the only one’s who think that. The Jews were treated horribly by the Nazi’s. The Nazi’s blamed the Jews for losing the war, then proceeded to put the Jews in concentration camps and gas them long after. The book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas made by John Boyne, and its movie made by Mark Herman are not much different, but there are differences to the movie and the book.
Comparing the book and the movie is easy. Their the same thing. First, In the book, on chapter 1 of the book, The family tells Bruno that they are moving to Auschwitz. In the movie, they family also tells Bruno that their moving to Auschwitz. In both the book and the movie, Bruno does not

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