The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Essay

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This week I read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was written by John Boyne. This book was about a young boy named Bruno, who grew up in Nazi territory due to the fact that Bruno’s father was a Nazi commander, he is eventually forced to move his family out of the city and into a house near Auschwitz. There Bruno is mostly alone with the exception of his older sister and a young boy named Shmuel, who lives on the other side of the fence. In this journal I will be Characterizing Bruno and predicting what I think will happen after the story ends.
G- characterizing Bruno
Y- who is bruno/background
R- 9 year old boy
R- Relationships with family
Y- appearance/acts
R- apperance
R- Kind-hearted, Naive, ect.
G- conclusion When the book starts the reader finds Bruno at his home in Berlin, he is there to
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Bruno gets along quite

well with his mother for a time but begins to dislike her after a while at their new house, but it can be inferred that Bruno and his sister Gretel do not get along quite well, due to the fact that he is constantly calling her a hopeless case. “Bruno still had to put up with Gretel being less than friendly with him whenever she was in a bad mood, which was more often than not because she was a Hopeless Case” (Boyne, 95). As for Bruno’s father he is quite strict with him, always reminding him of his duties and teaching bruno the things he needs to learn to be a man. However soon after the family arrives, many things start to change in the family when they are shocked to see that the concentration camp can be seen from their window, soon after that point a series of unfortunate events soon begin to occur to the family, causing them to spiral out of control. Bruno first finds tons of eggs in the roots of his hair and it is learned he

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