The quote in The Boy In the Striped Pajamas that stood out to me and stuck with me for the entirety of the book is ” people … well, they’re not people at all, Bruno.” This quote is said when Bruno’s father is finally telling him about the people in the concentration camp. This quote is signifigant because it shows that the Nazi’s dehumanized them to the point where they didn’t even consider them people. This thought process makes the guards feel that they are much more superior which leads to them to be brutal to the prisoners. Also, Bruno’s father is trying to brainwash his son into thinking that he is better than than the Jewish people. This quote stood out to me and stuck with me because it helps me understand the brutality that the Jewish people went through. It also shows me how much the Nazi’s thought that they were better than the Jewish people and thought of them as less than to point to where they thought they were not even people. This adds to the book a sense of revolting to Bruno because after hearing that the Jewish people are worse than him he feels that meeting with the boy in the camp is more revolting. He also realizes that they are very similar and equal. This doesn’t really foreshadow anything in the book, it just helps the reader understand what the Nazi’s thought of the German people.

The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas makes me feel a lot of different emotions. I feel these emotions in my heart. One of the feelings that I feel when reading this book is homesick. Well, I remember when I moved schools and I was devastated and felt that it would never be the same. In Bruno’s case when he is moving to a new house for his father’s job he says  “This isn’t home and it never will be.” This quote shows that he isn’t willing to accept the fact that he has moved and that is his new home as much as he doesn’t want it to be. This is the same way I reacted when I moved schools. Another emotion that I felt when reading this book was sympathy. I felt horrible for all of the Jewish people in the concentration camp next to Bruno’s house. You see the amount of suffering they have in the camps and are tortured and killed. They were dehumanized and treated as if they weren’t people. This is shown when Bruno’s father, for the first time, says something about the status of the people on the other side of the fence in the concentration camps, which indicates the ferocity of anti-Semitism. The quote is “Those people … well, they’re not people at all, Bruno. ” This shows that they weren’t even called people because of their religion. This book did open up some windows for me but also did close some windows. For example,  this really helps me show the suffering that the Jewish people went through because they were Jewish. This text is unique because it is the only book that I have read where a boy in a concentration camp and a person not in one become friends. It also is unique because it has a very tragic ending that you would never expect.

As I was reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, there was a particular seen that gave me a better understanding of Bruno’s father’s job. As I mentioned in my previous post, I mentioned that Bruno doesn’t know what his father does for a living but he knows that it is very important. This scene really changed how I saw how important his father’s job was. At first, I thought that his father may have worked an important job such as a banker or a diplot. I thought this because his job required his family to move very frequently. After I read this scene, I learned that his father’s job was way more important. I learned that his father worked for the German military and that he is high ranked. I suspect this because the person that walked out of his father’s office was a soldier. And another reason I suspect this is because where they moved is right next to a concentration camp. The scene in the book is, “The door opened wider and Bruno stepped back as a figure
appeared, but it wasn’t Father. It was a much younger man, and
not as tall as Father either, but he wore the same type of uniform,
only without as many decorations on it. He looked very serious
and his cap was secured tightly on his head. Around his temples
Bruno could see that he had very blond hair, an almost unnatural
shade of yellow. He was carrying a box in his hands and walking
towards the staircase, but he stopped for a moment when he saw
Bruno standing there watching him. He looked the boy up and
down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn’t quite sure
what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it
down the stairs. Instead he gave Bruno a quick nod and continued
on his way. “Who was that?’ asked Bruno. The young man had seemed so serious and busy that he assumed he must be someone very important.” This scene shows that his father’s job is very important. This scene also helps me confirm his father works for the military because it says the man was less decorated than his father which means his father has done many good things for the military. The language that made this scene effective was that it said “He looked very serious and his cap was secured tightly on his head.”

In the book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, the main character’s name is Bruno.  Bruno is a significant character in the book by always being curious and adventurous.  He is also significant because he wants to help the little boy in the concentration camp. In the book, Bruno is the protagonist in this story. I know that he is the protagonist in this story because he is trying to help the boy in the concentration camp to escape and help him. Bruno adds a silly kid character to the story. He is a character in that many kid readers can relate too by always looking for something to do, and being curious about things. Bruno lives in a family with one sister and his two parents. He also lives with his three maids who he is close with. Bruno is very mad about his family’s recent move to a new house. They had to move because of Bruno’s father’s work which is very important. Bruno doesn’t know what his father does and is embarrassed by that. As I said earlier, Bruno is very adventurous by always exploring the nicks and crannies about the house he lives in. This is shown in the book when this is said. “He went upstairs and turned slowly around in a full circle, hoping he might find a small door or cubby hole where a decent amount of exploration could eventually be done, but there wasn’t one.” This shows that Bruno is looking for something to explore. Bruno learns constantly during the book by at first thinking the people outside are kids to play with and he learns that they are actually in a concentration camp. s s s s s s s s s s s s s hdf higfygf gg  g