Subculture in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Introduction to Film I decided to watch the movie “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.” I chose this movie because it has multiple examples of subcultures and countercultures. These examples include the military, Germans, which can be broken down to Nazis or Jews, children, and concentration camps. I also chose to watch this movie because I have seen it multiple times and each time I learn something new about the Holocaust and the way they functioned culturally. I am also curious about why they felt that it was culturally acceptable to behave in the manners that they did and that it was okay to wipe out those of the Jewish faith. I have decided to focus on the Nazis because they stand out the most …show more content…
Culture Shock is when someone is suddenly exposed to an entirely different culture. The Jews experienced a major culture shock when they were forcibly pulled from their homes and forced into concentrations camps where they were dehumanized. Bruno also experienced culture shock a couple times throughout the movie. First, he was moved from the home that he grew up in to a house in the middle of nowhere with no children his own age, except for his sister and Shmuel from the “farm” (Herman). Bruno does not know what a concentration camp is and mistakes it for a farm at first. He then watches one of the Nazi’s propaganda videos that describes it as a happy place for the Jews to go. He then finds out that his initial assumptions are horribly wrong when he goes into the concentration camp with Shmuel, which ultimately leads to his death in one of the gas showers (Herman). The General also gets a culture shock when his son is killed in the gas chamber.
5. Socialization is when people integrate themselves into a culture. In this movie, those of the Catholic faith had to become okay with the Nazi beliefs. This included biting their tongues when they saw how the Jews were being treated. This included the General stopping his wife from trying to remove the Nazi flowers from his mother’s casket (Herman). His mother did not believe that the Nazi was right and had to hide her true feelings about it or else she would have been severely punished
Introduction to Film I decided to watch the movie “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.” I chose this movie because it has multiple examples of subcultures and countercultures. These examples include the military, Germans, which can be broken down to Nazis or Jews, children, and concentration camps. I also chose to watch this movie because I have seen it multiple times and each time I learn something new about the Holocaust and the way they functioned culturally. I am also curious about why they felt that it was culturally acceptable to behave in the manners that they did and that it was okay to wipe out those of the Jewish faith. I have decided to focus on the Nazis because they stand out the most …show more content…
Culture Shock is when someone is suddenly exposed to an entirely different culture. The Jews experienced a major culture shock when they were forcibly pulled from their homes and forced into concentrations camps where they were dehumanized. Bruno also experienced culture shock a couple times throughout the movie. First, he was moved from the home that he grew up in to a house in the middle of nowhere with no children his own age, except for his sister and Shmuel from the “farm” (Herman). Bruno does not know what a concentration camp is and mistakes it for a farm at first. He then watches one of the Nazi’s propaganda videos that describes it as a happy place for the Jews to go. He then finds out that his initial assumptions are horribly wrong when he goes into the concentration camp with Shmuel, which ultimately leads to his death in one of the gas showers (Herman). The General also gets a culture shock when his son is killed in the gas chamber.
5. Socialization is when people integrate themselves into a culture. In this movie, those of the Catholic faith had to become okay with the Nazi beliefs. This included biting their tongues when they saw how the Jews were being treated. This included the General stopping his wife from trying to remove the Nazi flowers from his mother’s casket (Herman). His mother did not believe that the Nazi was right and had to hide her true feelings about it or else she would have been severely punished