Although there happens to be many important characters in, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” the character that the story mainly focuses on is of a 9 year old b0y by the name of Bruno.  I have chosen this character because I feel that Bruno is a very interesting person who I feel will later become the main protagonist of the story.  He and his family are very wealthy citizens of Berlin, Germany.  He has one sister, by the name of Gretel, his mother, his father, his grandma, and his grandpa.  His father has a very high role as a German officer.  However, due to the war, his father’s job in the military forces him and his family to be relocated to a  Nazi Concentration camp, by the name of Auschwitz.  Bruno’s family’s new home is located directly across from the camp.  Therefore, Auschwitz can be Cleary seen directly across from Bruno’s room.  Although Bruno’s sister points out that the people at the camp seem dirty, scary, poor, and mean, Bruno seems to express interest in learning more about them.  Bruno is even so interested in the people that he finds a desire to want to play the kids in the camp.  This becomes apparent when Bruno decides to enter his father’s office and ask, “Who are all those people outside … in the huts, in the distance?”  However, his father gives a very horrible answer by saying, “Those people … well, they’re not people at all, Bruno.”  Even with Bruno’s father playing a big role in the war, Bruno is still an open minded person who doesn’t seem greatly brain washed or affected by the Nazi beliefs bestowed open him by his father.  Bruno has such an interest and curious mind that instead of becoming effected by his father’s words, Bruno doesn’t not seem fazed by them at all.  This is shown when he meets one kid trapped inside Auschwitz, by the name of Samuel.  Despite the fact that they look different or are living in completely different positions, they are able to overcome these differences and be friends.  Despite people telling Bruno what to do and his parents telling him to not talk to the people behind the barbed wires, Bruno and is able to think of himself and overcome his differences with Samuel.  Bruno’s actions present a very important theme to the story and a lesson to humanity, which is that there would be a lot more peace and happiness on this earth if we are all able to overlook our differences and connect on a personal level.