The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Literary Analysis

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In The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne two boys Bruno and shmuel, start a friendship even though they had to overcome many boundaries with their friendship such as shmuel is a jew and bruno is germin, and bruno not being allowed to talk to the people in the camp where shmuel is at or even go near them.

First Bruno is a jew but Shmuel is germin and during nuzti germiny the jews and the germans weren't really friends even though Bruno and Shmuel didn't know what was going on “ yes but their different asked Shmuel” (127) in that quote it shows how they were talking about the wristbands that they were given to wear that had different symbols such as Shmuel’s being a germin symbol and brunos being the nuzti symbol. Since Bruno is a

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