The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Research Paper

Through learning about the Holocaust’s tragic details and watching a heartbreaking movie called “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, I experienced various emotions and processed many thoughts regarding what I now appreciate and what I have learned and come to realize. Watching the movie “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” has helped me to understand how badly Jewish people were treated during these dark times. They were treated like slaves and confined to tiny areas called concentration camps. Many families were broken as their loved ones were killed with poisonous gas in gas chambers. There were many scenes in this movie that spoke out to me and made me feel the pain the Jews were feeling. The first scene was when Pavel got beaten by Karl and was treated rudely by Bruno’s family. Pavel did not deserve this cruelty. He was truly a good person as he helped to bandage Bruno’s knee after he fell from a tire swing. His good deed was not recognized and instead he was judged for being Jewish. Another incident was when Shmuel’s dad was “missing”. The poor little boy did nothing to deserve losing his dad and his life which made me feel empathy towards this character. Finally, this movie gave me a glance at the conditions that Jews were forced to face …show more content…
It made me consider the following; current day politics, racism, and poverty. Many people are treated differently if they are homeless or poor. Also, to this day, many people worldwide are discriminated against through Racism, reminding me of how during the Holocaust, the Jewish were “outsiders”. Like Hitler who was against Jews, in current day politics Donald trump is against the Islamic religion. This stirs frustration in me as Trump has not learned from the mistakes of the past and is still discriminating against a specific religion. He wants to force Muslims to leave the United States as Jews were forced into Concentration