How Are Bruno And Shmuel Alike

The author of the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas novel was written by Irish novelist John Boyne. The book is about a young boy named Bruno who lives in Germany in the year 1942. In the novel, Bruno moves from Berlin to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, Bruno discovers another young boy named Shmuel. Shmuel is young Jew who has been imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp. This essay will argue that Bruno and Shmuel are more alike than different. The reasons I will give on this are that they were both taken away from their homes, they both do not have any friends, and they are both well- educated.
The first thing that both Bruno and Shmuel have in common is that they were both taken away from their beloved homes. Bruno was taken from his magnificent 5-story house in Berlin and poor Shmuel was dragged kicking and screaming from his house in Poland. In chapter 1, Bruno left is mansion in Berlin and taken to a smaller 3-story house in Auschwitz and on page 62, Shmuel says that he is from a nicer place than Berlin and there is nice people there and nicer food. Bruno and Shmuel were taken away from their homes whether it was …show more content…
Bruno has left behind his three best friends in Berlin; Karl, Daniel and Martin. Shmuel had to leave his friends in his old neighbourhood. Shmuel also doesn’t have many friends in the concentration camp. On Page 8, Bruno says, ‘Say goodbye to Karl and Daniel and Martin?’ to mother when she brings up that the family would be moving away. This refers to when Bruno was leaving Berlin and he wouldn’t see his three best friends again, or at least for a long time. On Page 60 for Shmuel he says that he doesn’t have any close friends. Shmuel is saying this because he doesn’t have any friends in the camp, he just knows the names. Both Bruno and Shmuel don’t have any friends and this is another example of how they are more alike than