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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas uses many objects and ideas throughout the book that symbolize more than just their original state. For example, the striped pajamas, and Bruno’s family waiter, Pavel. These characters or objects represent something beyond themselves, which makes the audience ponder about the book and let's them look at it from a different perspective. These symbols can help readers understand the book more clearly . Shmuel, Bruno’s Jewish friend who lives on the other side of…

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Persuasive Paper By writing The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, through the eyes of a naive nine year old boy, the author subtly displays the importance of never letting a Holocaust happen again. Although Bruno never seems to comprehend what all that is going on, the reader is led through various events. John Boyne’s story is a good teaching tool about the Holocaust, detailing how horribly Jewish people were treated and put to death in the Concentration Camps. However,…

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    Boy in the Striped Pyjamas incident essay An important incident in John Boyne’s novel, the Boy in the Striped pyjamas, that changes the reader’s perspective, is the beating of Pavel at the dinner table. This horrific event displays the Nazi determination to rid Germany of the Jews. During dinner, Kotler is being put under pressure with leading questions about his Father and it is an easy option to punish Pavel ( a Jew) to get him out of this situation. Kotler was taking out his rage on Pavel,…

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a novel by John Boyne about two eight year old boys in the midst of World War Two, Shmuel a Jew and Bruno a German. The main symbols of the story are the electric fence, the striped pajamas, and the gas chamber. The symbols develop the theme of childlike innocence that Bruno possesses in the story. The first symbol is the fence enclosing the concentration camp Shmuel is in. When he first meets Shmuel, Bruno doesn’t understand why the fence is there or what it…

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    films that I have studied. This happens in the films: The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas directed by Mark Herman and is a Drama film/Film adaptation, Remember the Titans directed by Boaz Yankin and is a Sport/Drama film, and Tomorrow When the War Began directed by Stuart Beattie is a Drama film/Action film and Stand by me by Rob Reiner is a comedy/action/adventure. In the film The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas by Mark Herman, A young German boy named Bruno moves to Poland with his because his father…

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    character. During the time of the Holocaust negative thoughts trumps positive views towards Jewish people. This is clear to see the socially unjust treatment in the Novels: the historical fictions novels Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, and The Boy in The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, and memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, character’s true inhumane nature is revealed during periods of Social injustice. To begin, in the Historical fiction novel, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, reveals the worst…

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    detailed view of the situation. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2008 historical period drama based on a novel by the same name by John Boyne. It is a Holocaust drama that explores the horror of the Nazi camp through the eyes of 8-year-old boys, of the son of a Nazi commandant and the other a Jewish inmate. The pair’s lack of knowledge on the true nature of the camp is revealed: Bruno thinks that the striped uniform that the Jewish inmates wear are their pyjamas while Schmuel thinks that his…

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Based on the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, this film portrays the life of a German child, named Bruno, throughout prewar Germany. Bruno is an eight-year old child who lives a wealthy life in Berlin along his mother, Elsa, his elder sister, Gretel, and father. Ralf, Bruno's father, is a German-soldier pertaining to the Nazis, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, who "advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion,…

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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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