The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Chapter Summaries

In this book, a young boy was upset when he finds out that his family has to move due to his father’s new job in the German military. Their new home is in the middle of now where and Bruno has no friends to play with and nothing to do. So he decides to explore the boundaries around his home. After exploring, he comes across an odd fence place next door to his family’s home. After awhile of exploring and stuff, Bruno ends up making a friend, but the only problem is that his friend is trapped behind a fence.

One day Bruno comes home from school one day and found out that his family was preparing to move. Bruno has always lived in Berlin; therefore his is very depressed by the move. Bruno’s depression increases when he finds out that his family is moving out in the middle of nowhere and is much smaller than their other

One day, Bruno decides to build a tire swing in his front yard. One of the soldier’s orders an older man, a servant, to help Bruno with his tire swing. Later that day Bruno falls from the newly built swing and the old man servant come to his aid. The servant, Pavel, care for Bruno’s wounds. When Bruno ask Pavel about what he knows, he finds out that he was a doctor before the war. He was confused on why he no longer worked as a doctor. Maria, the family maid, told Bruno he couldn’t be a doctor because he was a Jew.

Later that day, Bruno began exploring the fenced place that divided their family’s property and the compound next door. He felt like he was walking for hours, then he saw a young boy around his age. The boy, Shmuel, lives on the other side of that fence. Shmuel talks to Bruno about how he use to live right above his father’s watch store, but then the soldiers came and took his family to a single room and they were forced to share with lots of other strange people. Then after awhile of being there they brought them to the camp,

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