What are the consquences of persecution? In the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, the consequences involve many things. One of the consequences is that families are torn apart, both of the persecuted, and the persecutors, demonstrated by Bruno and Shmuel’s families. Another is that persecution creates violent and ruthless people, as we see with Lieutenant Kotler and Gretel. The final consequence is that people are starved, physically abused, and forced into manual labour during the persecution, such as Pavel and Shmuel. Families are torn apart by the persecution. In this case, Bruno’s family is torn apart by father moving them to Auschwitz. Due to this, Mother and Father fight a lot, and there is a lot of yelling in the house. This, combined with the nearby camp - Auschwitz - causes Mother to take Gretel back home to Berlin. Mother is also implied to be having an affair with Kotler, as Bruno notes when …show more content…
For comparison, Bruno and his family are well fed, and safe from harm, but Shmuel is both starved and beaten. Bruno observes that Shmuel is “small and skinny” (Boyne 132) with bony fingers, which are perfect “to polish the glasses.” (Boyne 167) Pavel is noted to have to “press a hand against the wall to steady himself” (Boyne 143) showing that the Nazis don’t even feed the labourers well. Therefore, the Jews are slowly wasting away due to starvation and manual labour. Secondly, Shmuel is beaten for eating some of Bruno’s food, and given a black eye. As bruno notes, “there was a lot of bruising on his face.” (Boyne 174) This is a clear indication of the physical abuse that the Jews suffer daily. Finally, Kotler “grew very angry with Pavel” (Boyne 148) and it is implied that Pavel is beaten and dies. This happened because Pavel spilled some wine on Kotler. In conclusion, the combination of starvation, physical abuse, and forced manual labour demonstrates the abuse that the Jews
Gerta’s family, like many other families in Berlin, had been split with the construction of the wall. She, her mother, and her older brother, Fritz, struggle to live a normal life in communist controlled East Berlin. Her and her family had always secretly hated the GDR, German Democratic Republic, and had hoped to leave while they had the chance before something bad happened so they are seen as a possible enemy to the state, mostly because of a strike her father was a part of long ago. After the wall went up, years went by and she hadn't heard anything from her dear father and brother, Dominic until on her way to
In The Boy in The Striped Pajamas, a young boy named Bruno is friends with a child in a concentration camp, even though he knows he is not supposed to. In The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss, some of the Sneetches have stars and some do not. This leads to a lot of bullying, but in the end allows the Sneetches to realize that the way that someone looks does not matter. In The Harmonica, the young boy that is given a harmonica uses it to help many people feel better throughout the time of hate and intolerance. The boy plays for many people that live in a concentration camp. In The Whispering Town, many of the people overcome hate and intolerance by helping the Jewish people escape. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the many children’s books written about the Holocaust help overcome hate and intolerance in today’s world, so that something as awful as the Holocaust will never happen
The life of a child in the 1930-1940 was not an easy life not if you were a Nazi, not if you were Jewish. These Children lost their childhood because of a war. Their shattered childhood creates stories that seem horrific to us today. Life as a child growing up in a Nazi family is probably easier than dealing with the problems that the Jewish children have. However, every Nazi child had to sign up for the Hitler Youth. The Hitler Youth was an organization to discipline young minds and preach to them about anti semitism. Hitler Youth was one of the largest youth groups in Europe at the time if parents did not have their children in it they would face fines or have charges of imprisonment. The Nazi regime brainwashed the kids, they made them aggressive and intolerable. In the group there was even a small ‘Gestapo’ that would make sure all the children were doing the correct task if not the ‘Gestapo’ would report this. This shows how much power the children were given. During the 1940s more boys were recruited to join the army or guard concentration camps and ghettos. When the allied forces surrounded Germany the Nazi’s decided everyone of he age of fifteen and above would have to fight the war. They would be given rigorous training,
When Bruno moved to Auschwitz he was completely oblivious to the Holocaust. When he met Shmuel, he became slightly more aware, but couldn’t comprehend what it all meant. It is ironic that his innocence sheltered him from the traumatizing truth of the Holocaust, but it is what killed him in the
Liesel’s mom leaves her with foster parents because she wishes to protect her from the fate she is enduring. The words Paula, Liesel’s mom, uses go against Hitler because she is a communist which resulted in her being taken away and Liesel to lose her mother and experience the loss of her. This shows Liesel experiences unhappiness because of her mother’s disappearance which is caused by the words she openly uses that contradicts Hitler.
Throughout war, there have always been an effort to stop the involvement of the innocent. A big effort of this is towards children who were unfortunately stuck in conflict and sometimes join the conflict. John Boyne's book “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” helps shines light on social issues that are plaguing countries and communities today. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a touching story about the innocence of children in times of conflict shown by Bruno's lack of hate for Jews, Shmuel's kindness towards Bruno, and their commitment to each other in times of war.
No matter how hard she tries to separate herself from her family, she still feels an obligation to take care of them. When she was younger, Sara believed “[she] could escape [home] by running away” (295), but when she visits her father, she “realized that the shadow of the burden was always following [her], and here [she] stood face to face with it again” (295). Sara no longer views home as merely a location, but a sense of tradition that had been enforced by her father. Over the years, her father put his family through poverty and caused anguish for Sara and her sisters because of his unwillingness to stray from Jewish traditions. Sara developed a loathing toward her father and left him after he was cheated by the grocery store owner. However, Sara's anger and hatred toward her father dissipates once she understands that he is a true part of her. The values and ideals he always tried to impose upon her are the legacy of generations before him. Sara realizes that she had gained everything from him regardless of her hatred and therefore maintains her sense of family obligation. In understanding the motives of her father’s actions, Sara learns to love herself and the duty she feels toward her family. She concludes that she could no longer hate herself by hating her father, “Can I hate my arm, my hand that is part of me? [...] If
One negative outcome of the Holocaust was the abuse. For example, in the narrative “Jakob’s Story” Jakob tells us some of the types of abuse everyone faced. Jakob explains “...resulted in my receiving a hard slap to my face and getting thrown to the ground.” (Jakob ¶ 9). By looking at the citation, one can see some of the many types of abuse these victims faced. This is important because this is how some of the refugees died while working in the Holocaust.
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.
Bruno, an eight year old boy at the time of the war, is completely oblivious to the atrocities of the war around him - even with a father who is a Nazi commandant. The title of the book is evidence to this - Bruno perceives the concentration camp uniforms as "striped pajamas." Further evidence is the misnomers "the Fury," (the Furher) and "Out-With" (Auschwitz). Bruno and Shmuel, the boy he meets from Auschwitz, share a great deal in common but perhaps what is most striking is the childhood innocence which characterizes both boys. Bruno is unaware that his father is a Nazi commandant and that his home is on ther periphery of Auschwitz. Shmuel, imprisoned in the camp, seems not to understand the severity of his situation. When his father goes missing, Shmuel does not understand that he has gone to the gas chamber.
Therefore, family problems can have a great effect on the lives of the people within the family. Kaslik shows this by making Giselle and Holly’s verbal and physical fights, and their creation of imaginary friends. But in the end no matter how you deal with stress, whether by loss of appetite or jumping off a bridge, family is family, and they are always there for each other even if they feel like the family is separated.
While sitting outside, their mother decided to reveal her own secret. She had been lying about their father all these years. He had fled to West Germany because of Party oppression, and had planned to take the entire family with him. However, at the last second, she decided not to go. She had hidden all the letters from their father for years behind a cabinet in the kitchen.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966&2000) explains not only the life of the Grinch but the Whos as well. Through the theorists of Karen Horney and Erik Erikson, viewers can learn why the Grinch’s personality is formed. Not only had it formed, but through the years it transformed.
Imagine waking up on a normal day, in your normal house, in your normal room. Imagine if you knew that that day, you would be taken away from your normal life, and forced to a life of death, sickness, and violence. Imagine seeing your parents taken away from you. Imagine watching your family walk into their certain death. Imagine being a survivor. Just think of the nightmares that linger in your mind. You are stuck with emotional pain gnawing at your sanity. These scenerios are just some of the horrific things that went on between 1933-1945, the time of the Holocaust. This tragic and terrifying event has been written about many times. However, this is about one particularly fascinating story called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.
Many racial and ethnic groups are treated cruel, which contributes to the problem of discrimination. The inhumane treatment inflicted onto different racial and ethnic groups is provoking horrific violence around the world. The film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, gives us an insight to the cruel treatment endured by Jewish people in World War II. Jewish people were taken from their homes, separated from their families, and placed in concentration camps where they were expected to die. They were exposed to extreme levels of abuse, such as starvation, physical beatings, and emotional torture. The fear and terrorizing the soldiers used on the Jews is shown in the scene when Lieutenant Kotler catches Shmuel eating a cookie: “Are you eating? Have you been stealing food?