The Innocence of Children by Jackeline Limon https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0 Boy in the Striped Pajamas: Final project en-us 2016-12-08 04:43:55 UTC 2025-10-23 02:17:21 UTC hello@padlet.com Eva Braun jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996582 Adolf Hitler’s lifelong partner and girlfriend. She is never referred to by name in the novel, and is only described as a “beautiful woman” whom Hitler brings to dinner at Bruno’s house. Eva is kind to the children, even when Hitler is, as Bruno believes, “the rudest man he has ever met.”]]> 2017-01-19 05:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996582 Pavel jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996638 Pavel is the old Jewish man who works in the family’s house in Auschwitz. He was a doctor before he was sent to the concentration camp, and he patches up Bruno’s knee when Bruno cuts it falling off a swing. Pavel becomes thinner and frailer by the day, and is beaten (likely to death) by Kolter when he accidentally drops a wine bottle in Kotler’s lap at dinner.


]]> 2017-01-19 05:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996638 Grandmother jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996672 Nathalie, Bruno’s grandmother and Father mother, was a singer in her youth, before she married Grandfather. She is very dramatic, and still loves to sing. Each Christmas, she devises a play for herself and the children, to be performed at their holiday party. Grandmother opposes the Nazi party, and gets into a huge fight with Father when he accepts the new post at Auschwitz. They do not make up, and she dies while the family is away at Auschwitz]]> 2017-01-19 05:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996672 Shmuel /Age: 9 Birthday /April 15, 1934 jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996709 The titular “boy in the striped pajamas,” Shmuel is Bruno’s Jewish friend who is kept prisoner at Auschwitz. Born on the same day 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 eagerly gobbles up 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 luxurious 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 likely killed by the German soldiers).


]]> 2017-01-19 05:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996709 Father jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996732 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 Allied soldiers come to take him away for punishment, Father submits to their demands, as he no longer has the will to live.


]]> 2017-01-19 05:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996732 Mother jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996744 bruno's mother is 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 (and likely an affair) with Lieutenant Kotler seemingly an act of rebellion against Father, who essentially controls her life. Eventually, Mother convinces Father to let the family move back to Berlin, though she stays for a time to see if Bruno will return.


]]> 2017-01-19 05:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996744 Gretel / Age:12 jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996782 Bruno refers to as a “Hopeless Case.” She feels that she is much wiser and more mature than Bruno, and often taunts him. She is at first mostly interested in her dolls, but after her lessons from the children’s tutor Herr Liszt, Gretel becomes obsessed with the changing politics of World War II, and begins to track the German army’s progress via pushpins in maps on her wall in “Out-With.” She becomes much more indoctrinated with anti-Semitic rhetoric than Bruno does, and tells Bruno that they are the “opposite” of the Jews on the other side of the fence. Gretel develops a crush on Lieutenant Kotler, and is “inconsolable” when he is transferred away.

]]> 2017-01-19 05:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996782 Bruno/ Main character /Age: 9 /Birthday April 15, 1934 jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996808 At the start of the novel Bruno is a nine year old boy living in Berlin during World War II. His Father, a Nazi officer, then moves the family to Auschwitz, Poland. Bruno is very sheltered and naive, and though he develops a close friendship with Shmuel, a Jewish boy in the concentration camp, Bruno has a difficult time grasping exactly how hard life is on the other side of the fence. Bruno wants to become a soldier like his father, and though his parents never explain to him what is happening in the war, he has been indoctrinated from a young age to believe that Germany, is superior to all other nations. Bruno is small for his age, and is very sensitive to people like Lieutenant Kotler calling him “little man.” Ultimately Bruno never gets the chance to outgrow his ignorance and innocence, as his natural sympathy and friendship for Shmuel lead him to cross the fence and be killed in a gas chamber.


]]> 2017-01-19 05:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996808 CHARACTERS jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996831 2017-01-19 05:27:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996831 Quote jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996854 “Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.” 
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas


]]> 2017-01-19 05:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996854 How does innocence blind us to the realities of the world? How is this seen in the novel? jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996902 We see things differently when we are blinded by our innocence, we can't see most of the hardships of the world or we don't know what's wrong or what’s right with the world. We see this in the novel many times with Bruno. On page 116 Bruno states "Why are there so many people on that side of the fence? What are You doing there?". Bruni can't see the problem that is happening right in front of him and he even lives in front of the fence and he doesn't have a clue.

]]> 2017-01-19 05:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996902 What is the theme or life lesson to learn from this novel? jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996922 The theme of this novel is discrimination and how it can change people. EX. Father thinks of himself higher and more "mighty" to all the Jews. He has a mindset like if the Jews are rats. They are a plague and we must exterminate them.


]]> 2017-01-19 05:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996922 Family member connection jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996967 I didn't directly talk to this family member because I can't (May my grandmother rest in peace), but I did hear this story from my parents. The Calles presidency and Cristero War. This was a civil war between Catholic rebels called Cristeros and the anti-clerical Mexican government of the time that was mainly localized in central Western states in Mexico. During this time many Catholics were being killed for their faith. My grandmother was just a young girl and she and her family had to hide and run in the mountains to avoid being killed. They did end up surviving but they lost my grandma's birth certificate. This is why till this day they do not know at what age she died.]]> 2017-01-19 05:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147996967 jl55394 https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147997502 2017-01-19 05:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jl55394/vvkbw0xnnmm0/wish/147997502