The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Conformity

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In the novel, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” by John Boyne, conformity with an ideology could lead to a loss of trust, relationship, and life. Firstly, after Hitler left dinner and Bruno went to bed, Mother and Father had a loud argument about the move to Auschwitz With Father ending it by saying, “ ‘I don’t want to hear another word on the subject’ “(124). The argument caused Mother to think she was being bossed around by Father and his conformity to the Nazi Ideology which pulled them further apart and made Mother feel justified in her actions with Kotler. After Father found this out, it led to a loss of trust because Father because Father felt like he could not have Kotler around her and Mother felt as if Father was losing faith in their relationship and getting closer to the Nazi ideology; this ultimately caused a rift between them that made them feel like they could not express themselves to each other. …show more content…
Grandmother knows how much it could affect someone for your mother to say something like that, so she said it in an attempt to get Father to realize how bad the situation is for his own mother to say something like that. In Grandmother’s attempt to get Father to change his mind it made him only more committed because her words made him feel attacked and when someone feels attacked sometimes they get aggressive and in Father’s case he shun grandmother off and stopped talking to her. Their relationship was all together lost because of Father’s stubbornness to even take into consideration what Grandmother said so the relationship was never the same. Lastly, when Bruno snuck into the camp with Shmuel to find his Papa, he wanted to go back home after very little time, but as the author narrates, “ He had promised to his friend that and he wasn’t the sort to go back on a

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