In The Striped Pajamas

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The novel starts out with Bruno comes home from school to find his family packing up their stuff like their moving. Bruno's shows his disappointment with his family. But Bruno has no choice. They're moving, whether he wants to or not.

Bruno tells his sister that there is people in the distance. Bruno thinks it's weird that there are tons of kids and adults on the other side of the fence and even weirder that they all wear the same striped pajamas and striped cap.

Bruno has a flashback to the last Christmas with his family and his grandparents. It was Grandma told Bruno's father that she's ashamed of what he's become and can't believe what he and other Nazis are doing, then she stormed out. It's the last Bruno's seen of her. Back in the present, …show more content…

But this doesn't make any sense to Bruno since he working in the kitchen. Soon after, Bruno's mother comes home and discovers what happened. She tells Pavel that if the anyone asks, she cleaned Bruno's wounds.

Bruno went exploring and he comes upon a boy sitting on the ground in pajamas. Bruno is shocked by how small and sad looking the boy is. turns out that the boy's name is Shmuel and he and Bruno share a birthday. Shmuel is from Poland and informs Bruno that they're in Poland and not in Germany like Bruno's been thinking. When Bruno needs to go back , they plan to meet again tomorrow.

Later, Bruno walks into his kitchen and is shocked to see Shmuel cleaning glasses; turns out shmuel has been brought to the house by Kotler to clean glasses for Father's birthday celebration. Bruno offers Shmuel chicken and Kotler catches him and gets mad.
Bruno plays it off, hoping that kilter wouldn't catch on.

After more than a year, Bruno's mother wants to move back to Berlin with the kids. Bruno's not as happy as he thought he'd be about this because of leaving shmuel. However, Shmuel has a problem; His dad's gone missing. The boys come up with a plan for Bruno to dress up in pajamas and help Shmuel find his dad before he leaves Auschwitz on Saturday. Bruno agrees to

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