Post: The boy in his striped pajamas: Review
03-23-2011, 06:41 PM #1
Mudkip
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Setting: during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
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Bruno is a nine-year-old boy growing up in Berlin during World War II. He lives in a five-storey house with servants, his mother and father and 12-year-old sister, Gretel. His father wears a fancy uniform and they have just been visited by a very important personage called the Fury, a pun which adult readers should have no trouble deciphering. As a consequence of this visit, Bruno's father gets a new uniform, his title changes to Commandment and, to Bruno's chagrin, they find themselves moving to a new home at a place called Out-With (Acctually auschwitz). His new home is smaller, full of soldiers and there is no one to play with. From his bedroom window, however, he notices a town of people dressed in striped pyjamas separated from him by a wire fence. When he asks his father who those people are, he says that they aren't really people ( I don't like Nazi's >:( :bat: ). Bruno is forbidden to explore but boredom, isolation and sheer curiosity become too much for him. One day, he follows the wire fence cordoning off the area where these people live from his house. He spots a dot in the distance on the other side of the fence and as he gets closer, he sees it's a boy. Excited by the prospect of a friend, Bruno introduces himself. The Jewish boy's name is Shmuel. Almost every day, they meet at the same spot and talk. Eventually, for a load of reasons, Bruno decides to climb under the fence and explore Shmuel's home, one main reason was to look for Shmuel's dad, who had actually been gassed :(.I will leave the ending for your own imaginations or you can read the book for your self.
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Author: John Boyne
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Released :Sep 12, 2006
Price: £4.25 (from amazon)
ISBN: 978-0385751063

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Thank you for reading my review, its 4th in the section (I think!!) Claps hopefully some of you spend a lot of time writing a book review for NGU and if you need this for homework, go ahead!! Thanks guys :love:
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05-01-2011, 01:15 PM #20
Great movie with a great story behind it really like it Winky Winky

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