Comparing Bruno's Life Lessons Between The Holocaust And Film

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Honestly, there is not much to be learned from the storyline itself, whether movie or book. This is because we see it mostly from the perspective of Bruno, who is as clueless as he possibly could be for his age, and there isn’t much to learn nonetheless from someone who hasn’t even hit double digits in their age. There are some lessons certainly, but not many large ones. It is more the history described in them that we should to for answers. What we must focus on from this base is to know we must never repeat the atrocities once committed by the Nazis, which are found in real history.
One of the very few life lessons “taught” by Bruno is that we must never go near something that we don’t know something about. With this, Bruno wouldn’t have
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We are all one in the same, sinful human beings who just look and act different because of where and how we live. This was fought against by the Nazis, and look what happened with that. Millions of completely innocent people were slaughtered for essentially no reason whatsoever. This is what we must warn against repeating, especially as there is no dominant set of people in the world, just humanity. Also, with how we seem act there are probably quite a few simple animals that think that either they are superior, or that they are smarter, in which case they might be correct either which way. Dolphins or chimpanzees, for example, who are even seen by us as surprisingly intelligent.
There may be few lessons to learn from this story, but those that we can are extremely pertinent in our everyday lives, and all the more in our childhoods and younger years. It shows in its own way safety tips and even teaches us of history, which few movies (that I watch) tend to do. Overall, it is a great movie for anyone and is truthfully so. It teaches few, yet valuable life lessons that many kids need to know, even if they’re a bit young to know what is truly going on in the movie

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