If you look at the cover of the book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas will notice that it resembles a prison uniform with light blue and medium blue stripes. The front and back of the book do little to inform you of the story in this book, but it is clear that the story must have something to do with the prison or some sort of camp. John Boyne’s book is not very long, only 215 pages and is easy to read. Boyne writing style can be described as follows simple and concise, and always leave you wanting more.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a deep story with a touch of humor, innocence, and an overwhelming sense that something is wrong. The main character is a nine year old boy named Bruno, who will be harassed and defamed by a twelve-year-old sister, Gretel. The two children live in a big house with five floors in Berlin with her mother and father, a senior official in the German army. Gretel and Bruno both have three best friends that they constantly and can not imagine a world without them. But all that is changing very quickly one day when Bruno’s father that they all are mobile and can never return to tell.
The family quickly pulled a small house near a camp that Bruno called “out” with. Your new house is only three floors and has no illusions that was the old house in Berlin. At the head of the house, small, there is a large, dusty field in the area behind the house where there are people who walk into thin strips “pajamas.” Bruno is wondering how she was so lucky she got in my pajamas all day and why the people are in. Bruno does not understand why they live in the fenced area of the place by name, but he knows his father is very important in German Army, and it must be for a reason. His father is so important, in fact, a man with a funny mustache named “Rage” and his pretty blonde woman meet for dinner to the father of Bruno and his family.
Bruno loves nature and knows that he is a world-renowned explorer where he will be older. The old house in Berlin planned to explore a lot of space, both inside and outside the home. Inside, there were nooks and crannies, where Bruno could slip, as his parents were not looking. Outside, they were in the vicinity of the forest and Bruno was all day looking for something spectacular. But the Out-With, there was nothing to see. He lived in a polling firm with his family and it was a dirt floor outside between his house and the fenced area. Therefore, Bruno decided one day to take a walk along the fence to take. He did not know what he wanted, but he has finally found a little boy named Shmuel in his pajamas.
Shmuel for nine years and happened to share the same birthday as Bruno. None of them had no friends and really understood what was happening around them. Shmuel knew his situation was far worse than Bruno and Bruno knew that Shmuel always seemed sad and very thin, even if he wear his pajamas all day and play with thousands of children have got inside the fence. The two boys quickly became best friends to see Bruno and Shmuel went every day, rain or shine.
Over time, Bruno was looking her window and see people in pajamas pushed and screamed. Still young and innocent, Bruno thought it was just a game and did not suspect anything wrong. Shmuel would come to the fence from time to time with bumps and bruises, and was even at the home of Bruno one day. A military official had Shmuel other side of the fence one days polishing glassware Bruno accompanied family. Bruno was so happy to see his friend, he forced a little meat to it. The officer went Shmuel look just right, and I saw the boy had eaten him great difficulties. Bruno has seen several days after Shmuel.
When Bruno and Shmuel finally confronts her usual place again, “Bruno said as he, the two boys were on the same side play of the fence. Will Shmuel agreed, and promised Pyjamas Bruno bring the next day, so they both within the fence can play. In addition, since Bruno is a good researcher, he has promised to search for Shmuel’s father, who had been missing for several days to help. Shmuel had great hopes to find his father, but the chances are good that his father in stock has been executed.
At this stage it is very clear that the reader Bruno outside the Nazi death camp Auschwitz alive. Shmuel is considered an enemy of the Nazis and his time is running out. His father was probably executed in a gas chamber, like many others to Auschwitz. Bruno does not recognize that people are running inside the camp itself, the interior invites innocently plays with his new best friend. The next day, as promised, Shmuel brings Bruno pajamas were dirty, and probably by someone who was deceased, made. Bruno sets up quickly, goes under the fence, fragile, and joined his friend. The boys waste no time beginning their exploration and the search for the father, Shmuel.
A long way, some men at a Nazi group of Jews, including Bruno and Shmuel, which is supposed to play with him, and send the group into a room with a bunch of shower heads down from the roof. Everyone seemed very nervous and did not know what happens, but Bruno still does not quite achieve that is in danger. Suddenly the lights go out, and shower sound starts killing everyone in the room, including Shmuel and Bruno.
Bruno’s father, who knows her family is, to find more information about the camp and needs every day to his children away to get the death camp, notes that Bruno did not come home one evening, as he always does. In fact, it’s not for several days, and all of them, is very worried. A Nazi soldiers found clothes outside Bruno fence, and one day to know the examination of the fence that he did not take. A boy could have easily slipped under the fence to find his natural curiosity. Bruno’s father knows immediately what happened, Bruno has disappeared and would never return.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a dramatic book that combines real history and fiction. The story of Bruno and his family run very well with the history of Death Auschwitz by the Nazis and the Fury (Fury), Adolph Hitler. The book has such a good story behind it was recently in a film that has done very well, converted into theaters. combined view of the sad story in the book with a compelling story of tragedy and innocence are involved, I rate this book 4 of 5.
