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Bruno is a nine-year-old German boy who moves to Poland with his family and befriends a Jewish boy named Shmuel. He remains ignorant of the true nature of Out-With (Auschwitz) Camp, where he dies in a gas chamber.
- Mother
Bruno’s mother, known simply as “Mother” in the novel, is...
- Shmuel
Shmuel is a nine-year-old Jewish boy who has been imprisoned...
- Father
Bruno’s father, known simply as “Father” in the novel, is a...
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Bruno is a nine-year-old German boy who misses the life and...
- Mother
Bruno is the nine-year-old narrator of the novel, a Nazi officer's son who moves to Auschwitz and befriends a Jewish boy named Shmuel. He is naive, curious, and empathetic, but his innocence leads to his tragic death in a gas chamber.
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Bruno (April 15, 1934-1943) is the main protagonist of The Boy In Striped Pyjamas. He's the best friend of Shmuel, and the son of Ralph and Elsa.
Since arriving at Auschwitz Bruno hadn’t enjoyed being there from the very beginning and talked with his father who told him that he had to put the country's benefit before Bruno and the rest of the family. With this, he stayed at Out-With (Bruno's mispronounces the word Auschwitz) where there were no friends at all. Bruno wasn’t allowed to go anyw...
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 historical fiction novel by Irish novelist John Boyne. The plot concerns a German boy named Bruno whose father is the commandant of Auschwitz and Bruno's friendship with a Jewish detainee named Shmuel.
- John Boyne
- 2006
- Bruno. The protagonist of the novel. Bruno is a nine-year-old German boy who misses the life and friends he left behind in Berlin after his family unexpectedly moves to Poland for his father’s job.
- Shmuel. A Jewish boy. Shmuel is the boy in the striped pajamas named in the novel’s title. He belongs to a family of Polish Jews who were arrested by German troops and imprisoned at Out-With (Auschwitz) Camp.
- Father. Bruno’s father. Father is a commanding officer within the Nazi Party who takes charge of operations for the Out-With (Auschwitz) Camp in Poland. He believes strongly in Germany’s cultural and political superiority and in the righteousness of his work for the “Fatherland.”
- Mother. Bruno’s mother. Mother spends her time caring for her children, managing the family’s servants, and presiding over every detail of the home. She resents her husband’s unbending commitment to his career, and though she complies when his job requires the family to leave Berlin, she grows increasingly disenchanted with her new reality.
Bruno, an eight-year-old German boy living in Berlin, is uprooted to rural occupied Poland with his family after his father Ralf, an SS officer, is promoted. Bruno notices an extermination camp near the back garden from his bedroom window, but believes it to be a farm; his mother Elsa forbids him from going in the back garden.
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Nov 26, 2008 · A film adaptation of John Boyne's novel about a German boy who befriends a Jewish prisoner in a concentration camp. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more.
