True friendships can survive through thick and thin and not be shaken. In the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, two boys meant to despise each other , develop a friendship through the fence that separates their worlds. Bruno and Shmuel, absolutely unaware what is happening around them consider each other as the same. They each just want a friend and someone to talk to. Despite the challenges and differences Bruno and Shmuel face, their evolving relationship throughout The Boy in Striped Pajamas proves two people utterly diverse can become friends in a situation as bleak as the Holocaust. In the beginning, Shmuel and Bruno were nothing but strangers but after a few meetings a relationship blossomed. When they first met they
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The boys decided on their last day together they would go exploring together. Bruno could experience the world beyond the fence. It was going to be their last time they would ever see each other before Bruno and his family moved back to Berlin. The rain nearly stopped them from meeting but it stopped raining and they were able to meet. In the following quote, Bruno was questioning if they should do this actually do this and the importance of his promise : “He promised his friend that and he would wasn’t the sort to go back on a promise, especially when it was the last time they were going to see each other.” (Boyne 216) Bruno agreed and eventually they were off on a quest to find Shmuel’s father who had gone missing recently. Little did they know, they to, would go missing and never be found again. They became entangled in a march. That march would lead to their demise. In their very last moments, they understood what was going to happen to them, and they just held onto each other. “And then the room went very dark and somehow, despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel’s hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.” (Boyne 221) Although the boys perished in the gas chambers, they were
The boys decided on their last day together they would go exploring together. Bruno could experience the world beyond the fence. It was going to be their last time they would ever see each other before Bruno and his family moved back to Berlin. The rain nearly stopped them from meeting but it stopped raining and they were able to meet. In the following quote, Bruno was questioning if they should do this actually do this and the importance of his promise : “He promised his friend that and he would wasn’t the sort to go back on a promise, especially when it was the last time they were going to see each other.” (Boyne 216) Bruno agreed and eventually they were off on a quest to find Shmuel’s father who had gone missing recently. Little did they know, they to, would go missing and never be found again. They became entangled in a march. That march would lead to their demise. In their very last moments, they understood what was going to happen to them, and they just held onto each other. “And then the room went very dark and somehow, despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel’s hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.” (Boyne 221) Although the boys perished in the gas chambers, they were