The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Literary Techniques

The relationships one partakes in promotes personal transformation in the way that it can open one’s mind to new experiences and feelings of empathy. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne transports the reader to World War II, an unsettling time in history where a blind eye was turned to the fact that one’s fate was depicted by their race. This novel follows the life of Bruno, a young, wide-eyed German boy, who is forced to move from his comfortable and rather luxurious home in Berlin to the horrifying concentration camp, Auschwitz due to the demands of his father’s promotion. Boyne masterfully tells the story from Bruno's perspective; clearly showing that the innocence of Bruno's childhood remains intact despite the fact that he is living on the periphery of a death camp. …show more content…
The use of this skillful writing technique allows the moments in which Bruno proves he is infact a dynamic character all that more powerful. As Bruno stumbles out into places that are “Out of Bounds and no Exceptions,” he is faced with numerous realizations catalyzed by the relationships he holds with Shmuel, the world around him and Maria, giving the reader the ability to peg Bruno as a dynamic character due to the epiphanic moments that these relationships that cause. Although a seemingly minor character Maria is a part of the first moment in which Bruno begins to reveal that he is a dynamic character. When Bruno first learns of his future move, Maria is the one he vents to. Opening a door for Bruno allowing him to, “...admit that there must be more to her life than just waiting on him and his family. She must have thoughts in her head, just like him. She must have things she missed… and she must have cried herself to sleep every night since she got here...” (pg. 60) This introduces the reader to a pivotal a realization for Bruno. For the first time he allows himself to see Maria as a human and not just a