Have you ever had a friend that is different from yourself? Either different features, talents, or personality or even someone who may have a different background and experience. John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, uses the innocence of two young boys to create a bond between different worlds during World War II. These different worlds, the Nazis and the Jews, add to the bond between the boys, due to the hatred that is evolving around them. The differences in Bruno and Shmuel backgrounds demonstrates the theme, friendship can persist even with different backgrounds, and how it makes Bruno’s and Shmuel’s relationship closer. In the beginning, Bruno and Shmuel bond over being born in different countries, Bruno is from Berlin, …show more content…
At “Out-With,” Shmuel doesn’t like any of the soldiers, especially, Lieutenant Kotler. Bruno’s father, the Commandant, is a soldier and Shmuel disapproves of this. “All I know is this,’ began Schmuel. ‘Before we came here I lived with my mother and father and brother Josef in a small flat above the store where Papa makes his watches…’Well, Father for one, said Bruno. ‘That’s why he has such an impressive uniform and why everyone calls him Commandant and does whatever he says. The Fury has big things in mind for him because he’s such a good soldier.’ ‘There aren't any good soldiers,’ repeated Shmuel. ‘Except Father…” (Boyne, pp. 126-140). Knowing that Shmuel is afraid of the soldiers at the camp, he states that there aren’t any good soldiers. Bruno, of course, having his father a soldier, doesn’t like this, but he ignores Shmuel's opinion. But as the conversation continues, the boys both agree that they both don’t like Luetinet Kotler, “Shmuel doesn’t like talking about Lieutenant Kotler because he scares Shmuel, as he does Bruno. Bruno then further explains that he bullies Bruno and makes fun of him by calling him ‘little man.’ Then Bruno explains that he doesn't like how he talks with Gretel, his older sister” (Boyne, pp. 140-141). This opinion of Lieutenant Kotler gives Bruno and Shmuel a similarity in judge of character. They both see the bad in Luetinet Kotler, adding more depth to their
This novel explores the life of a current-day teenage boy who is lonely at school and is an easy target for bullies. Many people can relate to both of these instances and will interest those people. Even people who don’t experience these can still take it in and act when someone else is seen being lonely or bullied. Values to stand up for yourself and ‘to treat others as you would want to be treated’ were all mentioned in the book and most of the Ishmael’s friends were performing these values by the end of the book and Ishmael could finally be at school with good friends and know that he doesn’t need to worry because his friends will protect him.
While the adults show their disgust and hatred to the Jews, Bruno doesn't mind them and is nice to Pavel, the Jew that got him the tire, and later becomes friends with Shmuel. Bruno’s father is a soldier and is in charge of the concentration camp. Even with all the Jew hating Germans around him, he still goes out to visit Shmuel and doesn’t let them ruin his friendship. Near the end of the movie Bruno shows his friend how much he cares by entering the camp to help look for Shmuel’s father, who had gone missing. While entering the camp, Bruno learned first hand how bad the camps actually were and wished he hadn’t come. Even with these feelings he still wants to help his friend, which eventually leads to his demise.
When the “decently dressed” Lengel tried to tell the girls to be “decently dressed” because the girls were wearing “bathing suits”, the girls first argued they “are decent” and left because the girls thought what they were doing was not wrong since they have different perspective than Lengel. The result of feeling empathy for the younger generation in "Railway Club Blues" is that the older generation saw the younger generation as themselves and the protagonist mentioned that teens were the “Strange children of the simple punks we were”. Also, despite of the younger teens “clothes are odd [and] their attitudes obscure”, the protagonist saw their faces that gave him “a kindred memory” of how the teens “repeat the ancient dance”. Ultimately, because the two generations were able to enjoyed a small jazz performance together, the protagonist felt “all cardboard boundaries are erased.”. Both authors used contrast to show the results of feeling empathy for the younger generation, and in “A&P”, the result of Lengel feeling empathy for the teenagers is that he was rejected by the youth due to their contrasting perspectives. When the protagonist from “Railway Club Blues” felt the “boundaries are erased” when the music began to play, this demonstrates how the the protagonist felt how everyone shared the same feelings and empathize the teens despite
Two people with two completely different characteristics have something alike. Both Dally and Johnny are mentally tough because of their parents. Johnny and Dally’s parents both do not care for them and could care less about them. For example, during Dally’s childhood he went to jail, been in a gang, and has been in many fights and his dad still would not care for him even if he won the lottery. Dally also talks about his dad's disgrace towards him in the car with Johnny and Ponyboy, “‘ Shoot, my dad don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in a gutter...’”(88). Dally could easily live without his dad and he does for the most part. Dally just hangs around with his friends and stays at their place. Similarly, Johnny's parents use him like a rag doll to blow off steam, “his father always beating him up”(14). The gang knows what happenes in Johnny’s house. Once Ponyboy was witnessing, “Johnny take a whipping with a two-by-four from his old man”(33). Ponyboy talks about how loud and mean Johnny's mom is and,“you can...
mature. When Bruno first discovers the fence, a boy called Shmuel faces him. The use of
Let’s start comparing these characters let’s start with the younger one Bruno from The Boy in Striped Pajamas. Bruno is a little nine year old who is living in Berlin with his family. But then his father gets a new and very important job and has to move to out-with. Bruno does not want to move because he doesn’t want to leave his best friend and his grandparents behind. When he gets to out-with he hates it there he has no friends and now has a smaller house. He notices something out of his window. A fence across the street separating him and people in striped uniform. Time passes and he starts to like his new home. One day he went outside to explore witch was not allowed to do and never to come close to the big fence. But he went walking by the big fence until he saw a little boy. He introduced himself as Shmuel. They talked and became secret best friends. “He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly.”- Pg.213 "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.”-Pg.213
During World War 2 the Nazi were killing the Jews and placing them in concentration camps. It was a dreadful time for the Jewish people. In the story of Anne Frank the Frank family, Van Daan family, and Mr.Dussel hid in the secret annex because they were Jewish. The annex was a hidden section in Mr. Frank’s work building. In order to survive their attitudes and how they act plays a huge part in them working together to survive. Peter a shy boy of the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel a dentist are both loyal to their cause for surviving. Their attitudes are very different compared to each other, Peter is shy and quiet, while Mr. Dussel is loud and talkative. -The differences between Peter and Mr. Dussel’s attitudes impacts how everybody works together to survive.
The films The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Schindler 's List recall a dark and devastating time in history known as the Holocaust. Amid the barbaric German Nazi invasions, are where we find the main characters of these two films. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas tells the story of Bruno, a son of German Nazi soldier who befriends an inmate at a nearby concentration camp. For weeks, Bruno shares stories, food, and comforts the inmate, Shmuel, despite his parent’s orders and German upbringing. Bruno has grown up exposed to the Nazi propaganda, however his German upbringing does not create hostility or resentment toward this Jewish boy, but instead compassion. Similarly, Oskar Schindler, a German business man saved the lives of thousands of Jewish prisoners by arranging them to work in his factory. Both Oskar Schindler and Bruno did not allow neither their collective identity as Germans nor their pro-Nazi culture, to become central to their own individual identity and morals. They did not allow the constraints or “expectations of others”, in a German sense, to make them act
Children have often been viewed as innocent and innocent may be a nicer way to call children naive. Since children’s lives are so worry free they lack the knowledge of how to transition from being a child to becoming an adolescent. Their lack of knowledge may be a large part of their difficulties growing up, which could be a few rough years for many. In books like the boy in the striped pajamas the story is told from the point of view of a little boy, this way we get a full view of how innocent he is. In this book the writer shows the reader first hand how a child viewed the holocaust and how his innocence cost him his life. Then in books like the perks of being a wallflower Charlie is a teen whom is struggling with the transition from being a child to becoming an adolescent. In this book the writer gives a first hand look at how difficult it can be to transition into an adolescent. Charlie has many difficulties in this book; he is in search of his identity and how to fit in.
Friendship is the greatest gift in the world between two people. It is a bond in which two people accept each other for whatever they are, positives and negatives. In the novel, ‘Don’t Call me Ishmael’, by Michael Bauer, the power of friendship is shown with James Scobie and Ishmael Leseur. Ishma5el is a 14-year-old new boy at Saint Daniel’s Boys College. Ishmael has low self-esteem, which leads to him calling himself “the mayor of loserville.” (2006, p.4). Ishmael’s problems include a school bully called Barry Bagsley, who delights in mashing his name and generally making his life horrible. Barry mashes Ishmael's name into weird things like, ‘Fishtail Le-sewer’ (2006, p.19) instead of his real name Ishmael Leseur However, one new arrival
Friendship is not something that has adapted overtime. The desire to seek out and surround us with other human beings, our friends, is in our nature. Philosophers such as Aristotle infer that friendship is a kind of virtue, or implies virtue, and is necessary for living. Nobody would ever choose to live without friends even if we had all the other good things. The relationship between two very different young boys, Bruno and Shmuel’s in the film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an example of the everlasting bond of a perfect friendship based upon the goodness of each other. This film portrays one of humanity’s greatest modern tragedies, through heartache and transgression, reflecting various themes through out the movie. Beyond the minor themes some seem to argue as more important in the film, the theme of friendship and love is widely signified and found to be fundamental in understanding the true meaning behind The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
John Boyne's book "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" invites the readers to embark on an imaginative journey at two levels. At the first level, Boyne himself embarks upon an imaginative journey that explores a possible scenario in relation to Auschwitz. Bruno is a 9 year old boy growing up in a loving, but typically authoritarian German family in the 1930?s. His father is a senior military officer who is appointed Commandant of Auschwitz ? a promotion that requires upheaval from their comfortable home in Berlin to an austere home in the Polish countryside. The story explores Bruno?s difficulty in accepting and adapting to this change - especially the loss of his friends and grandparents.
He never really knew why Shmuel was on the other side of the fence. In the book, Bruno asked his sister, Gretel, “‘Are we Jews?’” (Boyne 182). This shows that Bruno had very little knowledge of what was really happening in Auschwitz and all around the world. Boyne had also made Bruno use a very shameful and inappropriate term in his book.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, by John Boyne, significantly distorts the truth of the Holocaust in order to evoke the empathy of the audience. This response is accomplished by the author through hyperbolizing the innocence of the nine-year old protagonist, Bruno. Through the use of dramatic irony, Boyne is able to both engage and involve the audience in the events of the novel. Although it is highly improbable that a son of a German high-ranking Schutzstaffel (SS) officer would not know what a Jew is and would be unable to pronounce both Fuhrer and Auschwitz, (which he instead mispronounces as ‘Fury’ and ‘Out-with’ respectively, both of which are intentional emotive puns placed by the author to emphasize the atrocity of the events), the attribution of such information demonstrates the exaggerated innocence of Bruno and allows the audience to know and understand more than him. This permits the readers to perceive a sense of involvement, thus, allowing the audience to be subjected towards feeling more dynamic and vigorous evocation of emotions and empathy towards the characters. Fu...
There are many examples of interpersonal relationships throughout our daily lives. They can be seen when you take a walk down the street, on social media, and even in a movie. Specifically, in the movie “Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, there are many examples of interpersonal relationships. There are two relationships in particular that are great examples. The first is the one between Bruno and Shmuel. Bruno, an eight-year-old boy who is the son of a high ranking SS commander, befriends Shmuel, a Jewish boy who resides in concentration camp next to Bruno’s new house. Second is the relationship between Bruno’s mother and father is another example of an interpersonal relationship. Throughout the movie, their relationship demonstrates different factors of relationships.