https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40 Made by Kai Reaney en-us 2016-12-09 19:32:11 UTC 2025-10-22 18:38:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png or55223 https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/142897274 Author: John Boyne]]> 2016-12-09 19:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/142897274 or55223 https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/142897949 I believe that there are many themes to this story, so i've picked one that has meaning to someone else or me.

At the beginning of the book when Bruno is moving from Berlin to his new home "Out-With" and Bruno doesn't like it. When he asks his mom if they can or will ever move back to Berlin (Because he doesn't like it in Out-With), she says "Sometimes we don't have the luxury of thinking", Which is something that's very true and important in real life. This shows the theme that sometimes things have to happen and you can't do anything to stop them.]]> 2016-12-09 19:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/142897949 or55223 https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148269218 Bruno: The protagonist/narrator at the start of the novel Bruno is a nine-year-old boy that lived in Berlin during World War II. His Father is a Nazi, and because of that he has to move the family to Auschwitz, Poland. As Bruno is just a kid so he can't pronounce certain words, throughout the novel Hitler is called “the Fury” (the Fuhrer) instead, and Auschwitz is called “Out-With” Bruno is very naive, and soon he becomes close friends with Shmuel, a Jewish boy at a camp, Bruno doesn't really understand how hard life is on the other side of the fence. Bruno has an interest in art and books, and is very adventurous. He wants to become a soldier like his father. His parents never tell him what's going on, he has been taught from a when he was really young to believe that Germany is better than all other nations. Bruno is small for his age, and is really impacted whenever people like Lieutenant Kotler call him “little man.” Unfortunately, Bruno never get's to overcome his ignorance and learn his own opinion, because of his relationship with Shmuel that made him follow him to the other side of the fence where he was killed in a gas chamber.

Gretel: Gretel is Bruno’s older sister, who Bruno calls a “Hopeless Case.” She feels that she is far more superior to Bruno and mature. She's first mostly interested in her dolls, but after her lessons from the children’s tutor Herr Liszt, Gretel becomes more interested with the politics of World War II, and even begins to track the German army’s progress with pushpins on maps on her wall in “Out-With.” She tells Bruno that they are the “opposite” of the Jews in the camps. Gretel soon develops feelings for Lieutenant Kotler.

Mother: Bruno’s mother. she's married to Father, a Commandant in the German army. Mother is very loving towards Gretel and Bruno, but becomes stern whenever they ask too many questions or complain about moving to “Out-With.” She refuses to speak with Bruno about the war, and says it is no topic for proper conversation. At Out-With, Mother develops a friendship or feelings for/with Lieutenant Kotler possibly an act of rebellion against Father, who technically controls her life. Eventually, Mother convinces Father to let the family move back to Berlin, though she stays for a while to see if Bruno will return.

Father: Ralf, Bruno’s father, was a soldier in the Great War (World War I), and is promoted to Commandant in the German Army by Hitler during World War II. He moves the family to Auschwitz, where he is in charge of the camp. Father is strict and intimidating, but expresses tenderness towards his family. He eventually consents to letting the family move back to Berlin, though he remains at Auschwitz to continue his duties for Hitler. A year after Bruno disappears, he figures out what happened to his son, and is destroyed by the realization. When the enemy soldiers come to take him away for punishment, Father submits to their demands, as he no longer has the will to live.

Shmuel: The “boy in the striped pajamas,” Shmuel is Bruno’s Jewish friend who is kept prisoner at Auschwitz. He has the same birthday as Bruno, he and Bruno become good friends, though Bruno never quite understands the horrors that Shmuel lives through in the camp. Shmuel is described as being very thin, and happily eats the food that Bruno brings him. He understands much more about his situation and the war than Bruno does, but often does not retaliate to Bruno’s blasé remarks about his comparatively fancy life, in order to not start arguments. The two boys ultimately die together in a gas chamber when Bruno crawls under the fence to help Shmuel look for his father, who has gone missing (and was probably killed by the German soldiers).]]> 2017-01-20 02:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148269218 or55223 https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148271124 "Out-With"]]> 2017-01-20 03:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148271124 or55223 https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148273158 Gas Chamber from Auschwitz ("Out-With")]]> 2017-01-20 03:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148273158 or55223 https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148273329 A double electric fence that would shock and kill anyone who touched it, something like what Bruno and Shmuel must've used to talk through.]]> 2017-01-20 03:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148273329 or55223 https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148274211 I had a talk with my dad that i chose to use for this assignment. We don't really talk much, but he's old since he was born in 1960, so he knows a bit more about some violent acts of racism/hate crimes. He was born a few years after segregation ended, and his mom told him about it. She said that she didn't really agree with it, but it wasn't much of a problem to her anyways. She did however notice that the darker skinned people were being treated unfairly compared to her.

That's pretty much all he told me, since my dad was busy.]]> 2017-01-20 04:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148274211 or55223 https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148274561 Here's a memorial type thing about Auschwitz.]]> 2017-01-20 04:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148274561 or55223 https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148274683 The way all these stories connect, truth or fiction, is simple. They're all about one topic or event, which is racism/the Holocaust. They're all focused around violent acts of racism that have happened in the past, no matter how long ago.

Things like these still happen today, and any day something like the Holocaust or segregation could possibly happen again, and all i'm saying is that it isn't impossible, so I suggest we try out hardest not to let it happen.]]> 2017-01-20 04:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148274683 or55223 https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148274817 Here's Martin Luther King's speech. He is very famous for speaking about racism and segregation.]]> 2017-01-20 04:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/or55223/e3jhieq5ae40/wish/148274817