For my first blog post, I decided to write about the topic of characterization. The character I will be talking about is Bruno. He is the protagonist and I know this because he is the main character and also the narrator. He is a nine year old boy and the book starts with him growing up in Berlin. His father works for the army but Bruno doesn’t know exactly what he does. His father’s office is off limits at all times to Bruno so it prevents him from knowing what his dad does for work. In a sense, Bruno is left in the dark about what is going on around him. This is highlighted in the text when it says, “Well, sometimes when someone is very important’, continued Mother, ‘The man who employs him asks him to go somewhere else because there’s a special job that needs doing there.’ ‘What kind of job?’ asked Bruno, because if he was honest with himself, which he always tried to be, he wasn’t entirely sure what job Father did.” The family is forced to move to a new home which, in Bruno’s eyes, is the exact opposite of their old home. Bruno wants to go back to Berlin to be with his friends and stay in his hometown, but his family won’t go back. Bruno also has a weird relationship with his only sister, Gretel. Bruno has an older sister who he doesn’t seem to like much. When moving he secretly wanted for the family to leave his sister in Berlin and take their grandparents instead because he thinks of Gretel as a “Hopeless Case”. After reading 1/4 of the book I see Bruno as being somewhat naive but towards the end of what I have read, he develops and he starts to become more and more observative of what’s happening.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Blog Post #1
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