Concentration Camps

The heart breaking novel, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, tells a story about two eight-year-old boys, a Nazi, named Bruno, and a Jew, named Shmuel, becoming friends. During this time, a lot of people hated the Jewish religion and they were forced to live in concentration camps. This novel took place during World War Two. Bruno’s family had to move because his father was a high-ranked Nazi. His family used to live in a huge house, five stories, and Bruno had three best friends there. Then Bruno had to move to a three story house. When Bruno got to his new room, he looked through his window and saw a strange place. The dusty region had a fence around a large area which ended up being a concentration camp. One day, Bruno went exploring …show more content…
In the novel, Shmuel didn’t get a lot of food, and when Bruno gave Shmuel food, he gobbled it up. During World War Two, Jews didn’t get to bathe and they were really dirty. In the novel, Shmuel was filthy, and he had to wear the same clothes for a long time before he could get fresh ones. The concentration camps were just like prisons. Concentration camps had fences and the Nazi soldiers would watch the Jews like prison guards. The Nazis would also try to make the Jewish people suffer. In my novel, the book describes the concentration camps as fences keeping the Jewish people from escaping. Also, in the camps, the Jews had no rights to fulfill anything. They had to follow the Nazis’ orders. During this point in history, the Nazis would try to get as many Jewish people into the camps, and because the camps had so many people, there wasn't a lot of room in the buildings that the Jewish people slept in. The novel also had this happen to Shmuel. He and his family had a small room, and they had to share this room with another family. Everyone at the camp had to share a room with other Jewish people because the Nazis forced them too. As you can see, the concentration camps were not a fabulous place in either my novel or back in …show more content…
Nazis were not nice to the Jews, and the Nazis would torture the Jews and starve them. In my novel, Shmuel would only get a few proportions of food and never got enough to eat. When Bruno gave food to Shmuel, he would eat it so fast, like he hadn’t eaten for days. Since the Nazis did not like people that had a Jewish religion, they didn’t think that they deserved many rights. One of the rights they took away from Jewish people was the right to own a business. Sometimes if you were Jewish and had a business, it would get burned and vandalized, or the business was taken away from them. In the novel, Shmuel’s dad use to own a business, until one day his father had to give it up. Then Shmuel’s family was forced to go to the concentration camp. Also, Nazis would kill people, and the fastest way to kill a lot of Jewish people were by using gas chambers. Nazis would make them move into a chamber and would gas them to their death. At the end of the story, many people would be sent on marches, and they would never return back to the camp. Bruno and Shmuel got rounded up into the march, and they headed for the gas chambers. Both of these two innocent children got gassed by the Nazis. The Nazis were very dangerous people in the novel and in history. As it was discussed, there is a great deal of history shown in the novel, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. In both history and the novel, they have shown how poorly Jews were mistreated,