There are lines that divide us, cultures that define us, and boundaries that limits us. But what could happen if we neglect all of this and see the world through the eyes of a child?
When we were a child, we look at the world with open eyes. We see the sky as always blue, the grass as always green and the world as both interesting and stunning. As children, we lean towards what is in store for the next day as if nothing wrong could ever happen. We get thrilled about the food that will be served by our mothers for breakfast. We get excited about the games we will be playing as soon as we join our friends. However as a child in Germany back in 1933, everything good about life tend to be unfamiliar. Everything they love, and every friend they …show more content…
One of which is the perspective of Shmuel, a Jewish child prisoner in a concentration camp in Auschwitz. While on the other hand the perspective of Bruno, as Nazi German Commandant’s son. The unique thing about this novel is its wonderful symbolization of their division: the barbed wire fence that literally and figuratively separated the two boys. Despite this partition that divided both of them, this division had also served as a way in order for them to intertwine. “Many critics have claimed that this novel is unrealistic and oversimplified in its portrayal of the Holocaust, but it mostly functions as a “fable”—almost an allegory” (Retrieved at …show more content…
This includes the reasons why did the author chose children to depict innocence in the story; the author’s technique of using friendship as another major theme of the story; how does his usage of friendship as another major theme of the story efficiently portrayed the moral lesson of the story and is it a form of disaster or comfort; how does he used irony as one of his literary device; and lastly, how does he made a Holocaust a sense of timelessness.
Moreover, the significance of this study will be of great contribution to the literary knowledge of aspiring writers, students and avid readers, who are motivated to investigate more on the analyses of the novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. This will be also of great help for future researchers and writers who would like to explore more on this novel on hand. This literary paper will also present certain recommendations for future analytics of 21th century novels like this one by John Boyne that will help them in examining the typescripts
When we were a child, we look at the world with open eyes. We see the sky as always blue, the grass as always green and the world as both interesting and stunning. As children, we lean towards what is in store for the next day as if nothing wrong could ever happen. We get thrilled about the food that will be served by our mothers for breakfast. We get excited about the games we will be playing as soon as we join our friends. However as a child in Germany back in 1933, everything good about life tend to be unfamiliar. Everything they love, and every friend they …show more content…
One of which is the perspective of Shmuel, a Jewish child prisoner in a concentration camp in Auschwitz. While on the other hand the perspective of Bruno, as Nazi German Commandant’s son. The unique thing about this novel is its wonderful symbolization of their division: the barbed wire fence that literally and figuratively separated the two boys. Despite this partition that divided both of them, this division had also served as a way in order for them to intertwine. “Many critics have claimed that this novel is unrealistic and oversimplified in its portrayal of the Holocaust, but it mostly functions as a “fable”—almost an allegory” (Retrieved at …show more content…
This includes the reasons why did the author chose children to depict innocence in the story; the author’s technique of using friendship as another major theme of the story; how does his usage of friendship as another major theme of the story efficiently portrayed the moral lesson of the story and is it a form of disaster or comfort; how does he used irony as one of his literary device; and lastly, how does he made a Holocaust a sense of timelessness.
Moreover, the significance of this study will be of great contribution to the literary knowledge of aspiring writers, students and avid readers, who are motivated to investigate more on the analyses of the novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. This will be also of great help for future researchers and writers who would like to explore more on this novel on hand. This literary paper will also present certain recommendations for future analytics of 21th century novels like this one by John Boyne that will help them in examining the typescripts