IRB Blog Post #4

For the fourth and final blog post, I will be reading about the topic of connections in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas with other readings we have studied in this unit. Recently in English class, we have been studying a book called Night by Elie Wiesel. I believe that Night and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas connect very well. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas follows the 2 main characters, one being the son of a German officer, and the other being a young boy inside the camps. On the other hand, Night highlights one main character, Eliezer, who is a Jewish boy who got taken from his home and put into a camp with many others. The books have many similarities because they are both covering the same topic and it shows the harsh realities of it. One key difference is that the two books are coming from different perspectives. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is mainly giving us the perspective of the German side, even though Bruno doesn’t like what he sees the Germans doing. Night is giving us the pure perspective of life inside the camps, with Eliezer and his father. Another reading that is connected to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is the reading called What did the World Know? This reading is to see how much the rest of the world knew about what was going on, and what was happening to the Jewish population. In the beginning of this happening, other countries didn’t know what was happening. This is connected to Bruno in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas because in the beginning he didn’t know what was happening on the other side of the fence and why Schmuel was the way he was. After reading these it gave me insight into the harsh realities of this time period. Knowing about this sad moment in history makes me feel very sad knowing what people had to go through, and that all of this is real, and not in a fiction story.