A good method to awaken someone's interest in a novel is to tell them small details that are suggestive and at the same time reveal absolutely nothing about your plot. The back cover of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas He employs that technique with skill: a nine-year-old boy named Bruno, a new house, a fence behind which there is something terrible… And he also guards his back, hiding from the fact that an excess of information can affect reading. He may be right on this point, but it is difficult to review a work of fiction without telling anything about its plot. So I will add some more information. Not much, only that that fence next to which Bruno and his family are going to live is the fence of the Auschwitz concentration camp. And they see it from the outside.
Therefore, in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas we find another novel about Nazism, although written from a rather original approach. John boyne chooses to narrate the story in the third person, but with a point of view very close to that of Bruno, a child still oblivious to indoctrination, to everything that happens in his country and the world of adults in general. Bruno approaches his surroundings naively and also with common sense. But in the Germany of the swastika, common sense was the first victim, and when Bruno wonders about what is happening around him, the reader knows that things are not as he interprets them to be, but also that, in reality, they are they should be.
One of the greatest merits of the book is that it does not need to put us directly before terrible and heartbreaking scenes (even if we guess them) to thrill. Everything comes filtered through Bruno and his vision of the world, it comes to us veiled and we rebuild it. In addition, the child almost always moves in a domestic environment, in which ideologies, attitudes, dramas and characters are transmitted to us through everyday situations. A striking example is the brief appearance of the Führer ("the Fury" for Bruno), who is perfectly characterized from an anecdotal scene.
Boyne has created a simple novel in its form and style, realistic and at the same time with a certain air of the story, without falling into Manichaeism. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas it will appeal to those looking for a different way to approach the depths of Nazi horror.
I'm just going to page 78 and I'm really liking it, I bought it before yesterday and I'm going that way, it's interesting apart from that, the sister has a joke.
When I finish reading the book I will say more if in beautiful happy sad boring entertaining
no one can tell a summary, or where to find it?
Many times I have been asked for it and I have given it to them with other books, can anyone leave me a summary?
I hope to answer
thank you very much
It was at least 2 weeks ago that I read it I loved it ... apart from the war it is also about the war, the child had nothing against the Jews and the sister was told that the Jews were bad and when Bruno asked him that they were Soon the sister did not know how to answer and Bruno dies if he knows why
bruno kreia k they put him in that cabin to shelter them from the rain and shmuel imagined more or less k was going to happen because people k entered ai did not leave
Look, it's a book that I don't fancy at all; I've had it in my hands more than once, but no ...
I had enough with "Life is Beautiful", a wonderful film that I can never forget ... but I cried too much (I never cry with movies), it shocked me too much.
Children (who bore me quite a bit) are, however, my weak point. I think the least they deserve is a happy, calm and safe childhood, with love, maintaining their innocence, they cannot defend themselves ...
Kisses Lenam
Well I must say that it has been one of the few books that has disappointed me greatly, I expected something exciting since it had been recommended to me so much… .. history has no more. But for me the book has a couple of points that have made me so nervous that they have taken all the force out of the story…. the fact that the author repeats over and over again eternal phrases in reference to Bruno's memories and the fact that absolutely all the characters in the book speak "quietly" (what is the voice left by God ????) has me fed up very much, I think this fatal writing. the story is fine but far from living up to the expectations they are trying to create around it.
I recommend for your reading:
CASTLE, Michel del. Tanguy, the story of a child of today. Ikusager.Vizcaya, 1999. Introduction by Antonio Muñoz Molina.
Spanish version with striped pajamas in postwar Europe, Franco's Spain and Andalusia of that time
It is an incredible book, very familiar with life is beautiful. It tells the story of Bruno, a boy who lives in Berlin and who moves to Auchviz (Nazi concentration camp) because his Nazi commander father is promoted by the Fury (Hitler) and makes him responsible for the Auchviz house. Bruno misses the berlin mansion, his three best friends and the atmosphere in berlin. In the new three-story house where Bruno can't explore, Bruno from his window watches a large wire fence and passes people in uniforms that look like striped pajamas. He is the only one who does not know what is happening there. His sister tells him that they are Jews and that they are the opposite and they are worse than them but Bruno does not understand why. Bruno one afternoon after class begins to explore by following the berry that he finds with a boy from the other band. This is Shmuel, who from now on will be his best friend. From there they see each other every afternoon and tell each other things, Bruno brings him paper, and smuel tells him how everything is in there and how he got there. After a year in auchviz he had already forgotten his three best friends, the atmosphere of Berlin, and his beloved mansion, but his mother wanted to return and so his family minus his father moved to Berlin again. But before that, Bruno decides to put on striped pajamas, go to the other side of the alhamabrada, see what all this is like, and look for Shmuel's father who was missing. But when they go inside, it starts to rain a lot and all the soldiers and the inmates start to move quickly and crowd together, they march, and they all go into a gas chamber, and from there no one knows about Bruno. Father saw Bruno's clothes on the other side of the fence and found out what happened.
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This book seems great to me, I cannot understand that there are people who say that it is a bad book. I am 16 years old and I read it a few months ago, it is true that there are phrases that repeat, and a lot, but what does that matter? It is a wonderful book that explains the holocaust from the eyes of a 9-year-old boy of the time, very innocent and not like today's children. For more information, the movie will premiere on September 26 in SPAIN.
It is a beautiful book, a friend of mine left it to me the day before yesterday, and I have read it in just two days !! that was because I liked it so much when I read it and it seemed so interesting that I couldn't stop reading it, it was incredible, and I must admit that I never liked to read, until I read this book, »the boy with the pajamas striped ", I am 13 years old and it seems to me the perfect book, it is my favorite, although the end is very sad = (but I liked the story a lot, it also has funny moments hehe, seriously, it is a" magical "book, I recommend both adolescents and adults, you will like it a lot and you will not regret having read it.On the 26th of this month they release the film I am looking forward to going to see it !! Greetings to all.
It is a beautiful book, a friend of mine left it to me the day before yesterday, and I have read it in just two days !! that's because I liked it so much when I read it and it seemed so interesting that I couldn't stop reading it, it was incredible, and I must admit that I never liked to read, until I read this book, "the boy in pajamas striped ”, I am 13 years old and it seems to me the perfect book, it is my favorite, although the end is very sad = (but I liked the story a lot, it also has funny moments hehe, seriously, it is a“ magical ”book, I recommend both adolescents and adults, you will like it a lot and you will not regret having read it.On the 26th of this month they release the film I am looking forward to going to see it !! Greetings to all.
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the boy with the striped pajamas is cute I congratulate you john boyne you are a great writer keep it up and you can overcome
The film is very beautiful in one part it hurts me when the parents do not want that religion and the last piece is very tender and very very beautiful I really liked the film -_- 0.0
I need to know what is the type of narrator of this text PLEASE