I am reading The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne and it is a book about the holocaust based on a boy named Bruno and his friend Shmuel. The book is told from both Bruno and Shmuel's point of view. They are both nine years old and live at Out-With. Bruno has just recently moved to Out-With and he doesn't like it much, it's very boring and he says all the children there don't look very friendly. There's a "nasty-looking place" right in his backyard that is fenced in and has "small boys and big boys, fathers and grandfathers." He also describes them as all wearing striped pajamas and caps. Although, Bruno doesn't know what the plave in his backyard really is. He is also not aware that his father is a Nazi general. One day, while Bruno is exploring Out-With, he walks along the fence at the Out-With camp and finds a boy sitting in the grass on the other side of the fence. Bruno introduces himself to the boy who's name is Shmuel. It turns out both Shmuel and Bruno are nine years old and have the same birthday. When Bruno first sees Shmuel he thinks to himself that he's never seen a "skinnier or sadder boy in his life." But Bruno doesn't know why, he also doesn't know what Shmuel is doing on the other side of the fence. I think the point of view that the book is told in, shows how little that the unaffected people during this time know. Even Bruno's older sister (who is around our age) doesn't know what's going on right in their backyard. The storyline of this book is very informative of the holocaust and the people that it affected. Bruno's obliviousness to what is happening to his friend Shmuel really shows how the differing points of views are important to the storyline of the book.
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