The Boy In The Striped Pajamas By John Boyne

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne is a fictional/historical novel has been A New York Times Bestseller and been given the Bisto book of the year award of 2006. This Book is about the Holocaust and how the jews were treated during this time period though the eyes of a young nine year old boy who is the son of a nazi commander. John Boyce has written many other Historical books including The House of Special Purpose and Stay Where You Are Then Leave.

Set in 1942, The story is about a young boy named Bruno, the protagonist, and his family who are moved from his home in Berlin to the Auschwitz concentration camp, the antagonist by Adolf Hitler for his father’s (also an antagonist) job as a Nazi commandment, . Bruno discovers many

I liked how the words flow and throw the author created an environment that you could really see and visualize. I thought the plot of this story had alot of potential and how it took elements from Romeo and Juliet, as when two families from different and The Diary of Anne Frank where the story takes place though the view of a child, however this wasn’t the case. I had a lot of problems with the characters and the historical inaccuracies. The main historical inaccuricies were how nine year children were immedialtly killed after being deemed not fit to work due to their age and strength. Another reason would be how there were tall posts which made sure no one tried to escape. This means that Schumel would have been gunned down by a sniper becuase he would have strayed away from the other people. I hated all of the characters except Schumel and Pavel because they at least had common sence. The main character, Bruno, acted like a five year old thoughout the book, providing nothing to the story and asking ignorent questions, he should know the answer to. For example, he mispernounces german words that would have come naturally since Nazi propaganda was huge during the Halocaust, especially in schools, like the “Führer” to fury or Aushwiz to Out-With. Also I thought Gretel was super annoying and I felt nothing for any of the other characters, who were mostly Nazis. Even during the climax, I still could only find remorse for the Jewish and Schumel, but then destroyed that in the final chapter, depicting it to be a tradagy for the Nazis after what happened to Bruno. I would give this book a B-. I woulden’t reccomend this book to people who actually want to know facts, not a “fairy tale” as some Halocaust survivors describe it. But I would reccomend it to people who want to know what the Halocaust was. I would reccomend Memories of evil by Peter Kubicek for people who want a more accurate