The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Good Vs Evil

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Humans can choose to be good or evil. John Boyne the author of the boy in the striped pajamas writes about a boy named Bruno who is selfish at the start of the book than towards the end he learned to understand. In the beginning he didn’t want to move to out-with, then he learned to like living there because of a boy named Shmuel which became his best friend, finally Bruno dies because of his curiosity of what was on the other side of the fence. Morality is the base of how a human acts and the way humans treat each other. In the book The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Bruno doesn’t know much of morality because he’s a kid, so he may not know his father is immoral to the jews.
In the beginning of the book The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Bruno was being inconsiderate when his mother told him they were going to move to a new home named out-with. In the book Bruno says, “And what about Karl and Daniel and Martin? How …show more content…

When Bruno go to the other side of the fence he sees people and he thinks to himself, “all he could see was two different types of people: either happy, laughing, shouting soldiers in their uniformed or unhappy, crying people in their striped pajamas, most of whom seemed to be staring into space as if they were actually asleep.” (Boyne 208). If I were ever in that position I would feel sorrow for how they looked, felt, and how they were treated by the soldiers.
In the end everyone can act good or bad, all that matters is how you got to become how you act at the end. Like how Bruno said he wanted to become a soldier like his father, his father influenced him to want to become a soldier. Where we get our morals is from our parents and other elders who influence us like Bruno’s father influencing Bruno. It is is important that we have good parents so we may have good morals instead of bad

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