The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas Analysis

Register to read the introduction… The use of puns and foreshadowing are just two of the literary devices Boyne uses to inspire action amongst the readers. Bruno’s sister, Gretel is referred to as the ‘Hopeless Case’ throughout the novel, this is not only demeaning but puts down females in general as women are seen as the least powerful out of both genders. This inspires women to become more powerful and less dominated by men and to have their say, as they didn’t during the war period. The term ‘Out With’ is a pun for the place Auschwitz which was a concentration camp used to keep Jews in. ‘Out with the people who lived here before us, I expect’(Page 25). The term ‘Out With’ was used to be understood as out with the Jews by killing them in the most humane way possible not out with the people who last lived in the house. This angers readers because it reminds them of the horrors of what the Jews must have gone through in the war and makes readers want to prevent this horrible act from happening again by accepting all …show more content…
The reason author’s use this device is so as the reader is able to predict what happens next through the hints given. An example of one in ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ is Bruno’s death. A hint that was dropped by Boyne was that Bruno and Gretel had lice and Bruno’s hair had to be shaved off. ‘I look just like you now’ (Page185). This comment is made by Bruno when he visits Shmuel; he says this because all Jews had their hair shaved off like Bruno had. Bruno had started to depend on Shmuel as a friend and wanted to help him look for his father as an adventure and asked to have a pair of his own pyjamas so he looked like them, this was just another hint given to suggest that Bruno was going to be mistaken as a Jew when he entered the camp via the fence. After he had climbed under the fence it had started to rain and when the whistle was blown they were taken to a separate building, here the reader was able to determine the fate of both boys. Bruno suggested they were just waiting there for the rain to stop, but they were pushed into the gas chamber and locked in. This was an expected, yet sad event that happened because two naive children were killed because of their race and friendship where they did everything together. After reading the chapter many parents felt emotional and wanted their children close by to know that they were safe with