I am choosing feelings as my topic this week. I am choosing feelings as my topic because I felt a lot of different ways while reading The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. Throughout the book, I felt happy, sad, angry, and confused. For example, in the beginning of the story, Bruno is moving from Berlin to Poland. He is very angry about it, and I understood why and felt upset too. I have had to move when I didn’t want to, and I was angry about it. Another example is when Bruno met Shmuel for the first time. I felt very happy that Bruno finally made a new friend. Bruno said that he would never get new friends because he had his three “bestest” friends in the world back in Berlin, but he finally opened up and got a new friend. I was also happy that he was having a good time with Shmuel, and liked speaking with him, even though he couldn’t play with him. Also, one more thing that made me mad and sad was when Bruno’s family was eating dinner with Lieutenant Kotler. During the dinner Pavel, the chef who made their food and their server, accidentally spills wine on Lieutenant Kotler, which causes Lieutenant Kotler to get extremely angry, and end up killing Pavel by beating him to death. Finally, one last part that made me really sad was at the very end of the book. Bruno is forced to go back to Berlin with his mother and sister, which makes him upset because he wants to stay with Shmuel. He tells Shmuel that he has to move back to Berlin, and Shmuel says that they could play before he goes. So Bruno and Shmuel will find a way to sneak Bruno into the camp, so they can find Shmuel’s father, who went missing a chapter before this. When the day comes, everything is ready. Shmuel has a spare set of “pajamas” and they have their plan ready. They will sneak in and try to find Shmuel’s father. Once Bruno has changed, and went under the fence, they’re off. Unfortunately, their plan gets foiled, and it starts to rain. Guards rounded them up and made them run, then took them to a warm room that was air tight. At first the boys think everything is alright, but then they realize something is wrong when the other prisoners start yelling at the guards. Bruno grabs Shmuel’s hand and tells him that they are Best Friends Forever. After that day Bruno is nowhere to be seen. The room that Bruno and Shmuel went into was a gas chamber, and they ended up dying. This made me very sad because after reading the book, I got to really like Bruno and Shmuel. In conclusion, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas made me have very mixed feelings throughout it.