Why Did Bruno Agree With Shmuel

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At the end of the story Bruno is talking to Shmuel outside the camp fence. They come to the agreement that Bruno is to dress up like Shmuel and sneak into the concentration camp and help Shmuel find his father. When he gets through the fence they begin looking for Shmuels father while at the same time Brunos parents are looking for him. By the time his father got to the camp Bruno and Shmuel had already been put in a big gas chamber with a bunch of other men and executed.
To me the characters really haven't changed much at all. Bruno was finally getting used to their new house and his mom was starting to disagree with his fathers new assignment. His father was taking his job way too serious, And his family didn't like it.
To me there is no

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