Boy In The Striped Pajamas Response

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Everyone is not who they seem.You should not everyone because they could be lying to you.In this book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas there is a family and they are from the time of the holocaust the dad owns a controlling camp and tell everyone but the mom that they own a farm. OEne day Bruno went exploring behind the feces that guard their house.He saw a boy and his name was Schmul.He was at the camp and then they soon became best of friends.
The theme in the boy in the striped pajamas is You can’t trust everyone is . My first reason is that some people can’t be trusted. Like brueno dad he can't be trusted because he lied to bruno about the farm and how it i not a farm. How it is a work camp for jews people. That mean his dad hide stuff

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