The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Persuasive Paper
By writing The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, through the eyes of a naive nine year old boy, the author subtly displays the importance of never letting a Holocaust happen again. Although Bruno never seems to comprehend what all that is going on, the reader is led through various events. John Boyne’s story is a good teaching tool about the Holocaust, detailing how horribly Jewish people were treated and put to death in the Concentration Camps. However, what John Boyne fails to do is elaborate on some little details. For instance, it is unlikely that Shmuel could have gone to the end of the fence everyday without being noticed. Despite the minor details, the story is a good teaching tool about the Holocaust because it fulfills John Boyne’s intention which was to remind people to never let occurrences like the Holocaust happen again.
John Boyne displays accurate clues throughout his story to hint that the book is about the Holocaust. He exemplifies the horrors of the Holocaust multiple times through Lieutenant Kotler. One example is when Kotler found that Shmuel was eating in the Commandant’s kitchen and he tells Shmuel, “‘And then I will come collect you and bring you back to the camp, where we will have a discussion about what happens to boys who steal’” (Boyne 173). Then when Bruno goes to meet Shumel to …show more content…
For instance, the fence did not harm Shmuel and it would have in the Holocaust. “Shmuel was waiting for Bruno when he arrived, and for the first time ever he wasn’t sitting crossed-legged on the ground and staring at the dust beneath him but standing, leaning against the fence.” In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie was actually going to run into the barbed wire to kill himself, so touching the fence would not have been possible without getting
By writing The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, through the eyes of a naive nine year old boy, the author subtly displays the importance of never letting a Holocaust happen again. Although Bruno never seems to comprehend what all that is going on, the reader is led through various events. John Boyne’s story is a good teaching tool about the Holocaust, detailing how horribly Jewish people were treated and put to death in the Concentration Camps. However, what John Boyne fails to do is elaborate on some little details. For instance, it is unlikely that Shmuel could have gone to the end of the fence everyday without being noticed. Despite the minor details, the story is a good teaching tool about the Holocaust because it fulfills John Boyne’s intention which was to remind people to never let occurrences like the Holocaust happen again.
John Boyne displays accurate clues throughout his story to hint that the book is about the Holocaust. He exemplifies the horrors of the Holocaust multiple times through Lieutenant Kotler. One example is when Kotler found that Shmuel was eating in the Commandant’s kitchen and he tells Shmuel, “‘And then I will come collect you and bring you back to the camp, where we will have a discussion about what happens to boys who steal’” (Boyne 173). Then when Bruno goes to meet Shumel to …show more content…
For instance, the fence did not harm Shmuel and it would have in the Holocaust. “Shmuel was waiting for Bruno when he arrived, and for the first time ever he wasn’t sitting crossed-legged on the ground and staring at the dust beneath him but standing, leaning against the fence.” In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie was actually going to run into the barbed wire to kill himself, so touching the fence would not have been possible without getting