Author
John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of six novels. One of them is The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, which won two Irish Book Awards. His novels are published in over 30 languages. He lives in Dublin.
Summary
Bruno is a nine-year-old boy who likes to explore. He grows up in Berlin during the Second World War. He lives in a big house with his parents and his sister Gretel, who is twelve years old.
One day, when Bruno came home from school, all his clothes were already packed in boxes. His father got a new job by the Fury and they have to move to ‘Out-With’ (Auschwitz). Bruno’s father is a Lieutenant during the Second World War. He was Hitler’s right hand.
Bruno doesn’t like it at Out-With because soldiers are walking in and out of the house every day and the house wasn’t as big as the house back in Berlin. Bruno hated Lieutenant Kotler the most, he calls Bruno ‘little man’ instead of ‘young man’.
Bruno was bored so he started to make a swing of ropes and an old tyre. After a couple of hours playing on the swing an accident took place, so he stopped playing on the swing. Aa few days later Bruno went exploring in the wood. After an hour and a half walking through the wood he came at the fence, which he could see from his window on the first floor. At the other side of the fence he saw many people who were all wearing the same striped pyjamas. He went back tot he fence over and over again without seeing anything changes, Then he sees a little boy who was sitting cross-legged near the fence. They began to talk, and they found out that their birthdays were on the same day. Because Bruno didn’t had any other children around Out-With to play with, he went back every day to talk to Shmuel. Bruno began to like it at Out-With because of Shmuel, and he really began to like Shmuel. He never thought about his other three ‘best friends for life’ back in Berlin. But after a year his mother went to dislike it at Out-With, so she decided that they went back home again. Bruno wasn’t sure what he was feeling about that decision. He went to Shmuel and told him. Shmuel was very sad about the news. They didn’t had the opportunity to play with each other once so they decided to see each other tomorrow (that was the last day Bruno was able to come to the fence). …show more content…
Because it wasn’t an option for Shmuel to get to Bruno’s side of the fence, Bruno would get to Shmuel’s side of the fence by rolling under it in a striped pyjama. Bruno and Shmuel went exploring at ‘the other side of the fence’ but after two hours Bruno wants to go home because it went dark. It started raining. A group of people need to go to a hut to be out of the storm for a few minutes (that’s what Bruno thought) but no one came back from the hut ever since. The Germans wanted to try a new plan, the gaschamber. They had to take a shower because they were dirty from the mud and the rain. Bruno was part of this group of people. Bruno’s father tried to end the gaschamber because he found out that Bruno was on the other side of the fence and people found his
John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of six novels. One of them is The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, which won two Irish Book Awards. His novels are published in over 30 languages. He lives in Dublin.
Summary
Bruno is a nine-year-old boy who likes to explore. He grows up in Berlin during the Second World War. He lives in a big house with his parents and his sister Gretel, who is twelve years old.
One day, when Bruno came home from school, all his clothes were already packed in boxes. His father got a new job by the Fury and they have to move to ‘Out-With’ (Auschwitz). Bruno’s father is a Lieutenant during the Second World War. He was Hitler’s right hand.
Bruno doesn’t like it at Out-With because soldiers are walking in and out of the house every day and the house wasn’t as big as the house back in Berlin. Bruno hated Lieutenant Kotler the most, he calls Bruno ‘little man’ instead of ‘young man’.
Bruno was bored so he started to make a swing of ropes and an old tyre. After a couple of hours playing on the swing an accident took place, so he stopped playing on the swing. Aa few days later Bruno went exploring in the wood. After an hour and a half walking through the wood he came at the fence, which he could see from his window on the first floor. At the other side of the fence he saw many people who were all wearing the same striped pyjamas. He went back tot he fence over and over again without seeing anything changes, Then he sees a little boy who was sitting cross-legged near the fence. They began to talk, and they found out that their birthdays were on the same day. Because Bruno didn’t had any other children around Out-With to play with, he went back every day to talk to Shmuel. Bruno began to like it at Out-With because of Shmuel, and he really began to like Shmuel. He never thought about his other three ‘best friends for life’ back in Berlin. But after a year his mother went to dislike it at Out-With, so she decided that they went back home again. Bruno wasn’t sure what he was feeling about that decision. He went to Shmuel and told him. Shmuel was very sad about the news. They didn’t had the opportunity to play with each other once so they decided to see each other tomorrow (that was the last day Bruno was able to come to the fence). …show more content…
Because it wasn’t an option for Shmuel to get to Bruno’s side of the fence, Bruno would get to Shmuel’s side of the fence by rolling under it in a striped pyjama. Bruno and Shmuel went exploring at ‘the other side of the fence’ but after two hours Bruno wants to go home because it went dark. It started raining. A group of people need to go to a hut to be out of the storm for a few minutes (that’s what Bruno thought) but no one came back from the hut ever since. The Germans wanted to try a new plan, the gaschamber. They had to take a shower because they were dirty from the mud and the rain. Bruno was part of this group of people. Bruno’s father tried to end the gaschamber because he found out that Bruno was on the other side of the fence and people found his