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    everyone because they could be lying to you.In this book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas there is a family and they are from the time of the holocaust the dad owns a controlling camp and tell everyone but the mom that they own a farm. OEne day Bruno went exploring behind the feces that guard their house.He saw a boy and his name was Schmul.He was at the camp and then they soon became best of friends. The theme in the boy in the striped pajamas is You can’t trust everyone is . My first reason…

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is about the Holocaust and World War II. It gives the perspective of a young boy who didn't know much about what was going on around him, but still explains thoroughly what is happening. The main theme of the book is that we are are equal beings. Many times throughout history, people have claimed that one group of people was either superior or inferior to the other. Many wars in history occurred because of the disagreements of who was better and who didn't matter.…

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    The book, Night, by Elie Wiesel and the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, demonstrates two completely different perspectives towards the Holocaust. Night, a nonfiction memoir, depicted the life and feelings of a young boy who was forced to endure the harshness and depression of a life in a death camp. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a heartbreaking movie, based on a fictional novel, shares the inimaginable friendship of a Nazi soldier's son, Bruno, with an imprisoned Jewish boy, Shmuel.…

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    Another book, another debate... The Boy in the Striped Pajamas In the past few years, plenty of schools have read the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in grade seven English language arts class. Recently there has been some controversy in the media if the novel and film are appropriate for children of this age. Firstly, in the long list of graphic books and movies, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is not one of them. Secondly, the Holocaust was a terrible event in history, and learning it at…

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    The boy in the striped pajamas is a film based off of historical British events that happened during the horror of World War II. This film is focused on the holocaust and the Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two 9 year old boys. One of the 9 year old boys (Bruno) is the son of a Nazi Commandant, and the other 9 year old boy (Shmuel) is the son of a Jewish inmate that lives on the camp in Bruno’s back yard. At the beginning of the film it shows the setting in Rome in Nazi…

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    John Boyne uses narrative voice and other literary devices to convey the main ideas in his novel ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’. The novel tells the story of a young boy of the Aryan race, living in Nazi Germany, who meets a Jewish boy, whom he befriends. Boyne demonstrates the ideas of power of friendship, innocence, and discrimination through his novel. Some of the key techniques Boyne has used to express these ideas are narrative voice, characterisation, dramatic irony and juxtaposition.…

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    2 Star- The boy in striped pyjamas uses many symbols to explore the topic of freedom, or lack of it. select three different symbols from the text and demonstrate how each symbolise this idea. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas is a book written by John Boyne. the book follows a nine year old boy named Bruno and his family moving from their house in Berlin and move to "Out-with" because of orders from 'the fury'. Bruno doesn't like this new house and goes outside to explore when he discovers a boy…

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    concentration camps. Many Jews lost their families during the Holocaust, while two boys named Bruno and Shmuel found each other and became friends right away, despite their massive number of similarities and differences. In the book, The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, he reveals a series of similarities between the two boys, Bruno and Shmuel. 1 The two boys are both very naïve about the real world and what is going on. 2 For example, they both are not educated about the war that is…

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fable based on the friendship between a Jew and a German child in World War II. The novel is written through eyes of a 9 year old German child, Bruno, and explains the tragedy and conflicts in two worlds which are separated by wired fences. Author, John Boyne, tries to give many lessons with the story of building a relationship by two boys between the barrier of a concentration camp. As a result, the morals of this novel can be summarized with the importance…

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    John Boyne

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    What caused John Boyne to write this particular book? Tip: If you don’t remember the class discussion, you can look online. (30 pts.) From the background information I’ve read, it seems like it was a relatively important topic for John Boyne. He wanted his readers to get the moral of the story, but he wanted to do that without telling a story that actually happened exactly like that in real life. While I was researching, I read something about his dad. He was an Irish men that experienced…

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