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The boy in the striped pyjamas
John Boyne
2006
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Bruno: This boy is the son of a Nazi who becomes the director of Auschwitz. Bruno is one of the two boys by the fence and the one where everything in the book goes about.
Shmuel: The other of the two boys by the fence. This Jewish boy is locked in Auschwitz and becomes a good friend of Bruno.
Gretel: The older sister of Bruno who thinks she is amazing.
Father: The father of Bruno, who’s job is the reason that the moved to ‘Out-With’.
Mother: The mother of Bruno

Summery
The nine-year-old Bruno moved with his parents and his sister Gretel from Berlin to Poland, to a mysterious place called Out-With. They move because Bruno’s father got promotion, but Bruno hates it because of all of the things he misses. Father says the he should absolutely not be disturbed during his work, and there are often soldiers walking around their house.
When Bruno sits in his bedroom, he can see a large area where a lot of people in striped pajamas walk around.

When Bruno starts to walk around the garden, he discovers a fence that separates their garden from the field with the people in striped pajamas. Close to the fence, he sees a little boy. They start talking to each other, and so he discovers that the boys is called Shmuel. After a while, they get good friends and talk a lot.
Later, the sister discovered that their new home is not called Out-With, but Auschwitz, and meanwhile their mother is not so happy in the new house anymore. There by, the father decides that the mother and the kids have to go back to Berlin, and when Bruno told that to Shmuel, they decide that Bruno must come on the other side of the fence. When Bruno wants to home, they are all brought to a building, and got gassed…

Opinion
Even though this book is about the Holocaust, it absolutely is not boring. While reading this

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