“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.” W. Somerset Maugham. The quote above has such a big impact on regular readers. The quote’s meaning makes you realise why you actually want to read a book. It’s for the thrill of seeking new meaning in your life, and experiencing new emotions that while reading the books stirs up inside of you. A writer of every book has one target that he or she has to achieve. If that target is to get the readers crying, or to make the readers feel important, or to grasp the readers every emotion and play with there feelings, the writer always accomplishes it, but in some cases they don’t. If the writer does succeed the readers will automatically have taken some sort of meaning out of
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a very good example of a book written with a truthful ending. The book takes us back in time to World War 2 were the truth really hurts. The whole book consists of the sad truth. Everything that takes place in Bruno’s life at the beginning of the book makes you feel like there is no hope. There is no indication during the story that things are getting any better for the prisoners. Schmuel’s father being “missing” is a huge foreshadowing that things are getting worse (Steinbach, …show more content…
One of the themes of the book is innocence. Although Bruno and Shmuel share a certain childlike innocence, the reality is that Shmuel is a prisoner in Auschwitz and has certainly seen horrific sights. Bruno, on the other hand, is fiercely protected by his parents who do not want him to know about the horrors of the reality that is the Holocaust; in particular, they go to great lengths to keep the details of Bruno's father's job a secret from him (Saaris, 2016). Bruno’s lack of friends and desperate longing for a new friend made him walk, unknowingly into a situation that would cause his own death. Just like Bruno the Jews were just as innocent as he was, and ended up on the wrong side of the
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a very good example of a book written with a truthful ending. The book takes us back in time to World War 2 were the truth really hurts. The whole book consists of the sad truth. Everything that takes place in Bruno’s life at the beginning of the book makes you feel like there is no hope. There is no indication during the story that things are getting any better for the prisoners. Schmuel’s father being “missing” is a huge foreshadowing that things are getting worse (Steinbach, …show more content…
One of the themes of the book is innocence. Although Bruno and Shmuel share a certain childlike innocence, the reality is that Shmuel is a prisoner in Auschwitz and has certainly seen horrific sights. Bruno, on the other hand, is fiercely protected by his parents who do not want him to know about the horrors of the reality that is the Holocaust; in particular, they go to great lengths to keep the details of Bruno's father's job a secret from him (Saaris, 2016). Bruno’s lack of friends and desperate longing for a new friend made him walk, unknowingly into a situation that would cause his own death. Just like Bruno the Jews were just as innocent as he was, and ended up on the wrong side of the