The Boy And The Striped Pajamas Essay

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Bruno is the main character in ‘The Boy and The Striped Pajamas’ we first meet him on page one, chapter one, but we start to learn about Bruno's personality more on page four of the book. Bruno is also is quite naive at times in the book in general and on what is going at Out-With. This is a shock to me as his father is a powerful Commandant so I would think Bruno would have a lot of tuition on what was the Fury’s (Hitler’s) plan for the future of Germany, or at least at child friendly version.

“What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?” This quote tells us that Bruno can be naive quite a lot in the book another time was when Lieutenant

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