Boy In The Striped Pajamas

The boy in the striped pajamas is a film released in 2008, by director Mark Herman. The movie starts off with a family of four who leave Berlin, Germany and move to Auschwitz, Poland during the holocaust time period. The protagonists include a young nine-year old boy named Bruno, Bruno is the child of his two parents and younger brother to his 12 year old sister, Gretel. As for the other protagonist, Shmuel, he is a nine-year old jewish boy who is being held in concentration camp in the woods that Bruno is prohibited to go in by his parents. Being the curious and innocent boy that Bruno is, he ignores his parent’s word and wanders into the woods one day where he forms a secret and forbidden friendship with Shmuel through the electric fence.

A smaller conflict that forms throughout the movie is between Bruno’s mother and father, who start to argue frequently, since Bruno’s mother wants no part of Bruno’s father’s “work” and although Bruno’s mother never mentions it, she knows that what’s being done to the jewish people is wrong. In order to resolve the conflict and tension that is between the nazis and jews, Bruno attempts to talk to Shmuel about the camp and even asks him if he thinks that his father is a good person, after being told that it is very rare to find a nice jew. Bruno also brings Shmuel sandwiches since he isn’t fed in the concentration camp. All of these events and conflicts lead up to the climax of the story, where Bruno’s father approaches Bruno and Gretel about going to live with their aunt, after Bruno tells Shmuel the news and hears that Shmuel’s father has gone missing, he promises to visit Shmuel the morning before leaving and help him find his father. The following morning, Bruno runs through the woods, where Shmuel greets him with the blue and white striped pajamas so that Bruno can blend in with everybody else in the camp. While Bruno and Shmuel run through the camp searching for his