![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, he never grasps the role of his father in the working of the camp. Bruno instinctively understands that he must keep his friendship a secret from his family and especially from Lieutenant Kotler, his father’s assistant whom Bruno intensely dislikes.Īs a year passes, the boys become very close, but Bruno never really understands that Shmuel is a prisoner in the camp, along many thousands of other prisoners. The two boys form an unlikely friendship, each sitting on his side of the fence and talking about life and their interests. He speaks German, as his mother was a language teacher before the war. The boy’s name is Shmuel, and he is a Jew from Poland. One day during his explorations, he comes across a boy his age sitting on the opposite side of the fence and wearing what to Bruno appear to be striped pajamas. There, he inhabits a lonely house next to a barbed-wire fence that encloses the camp. Knopf in New York, in 2017.ĭuring World War II, a nine-year-old German boy Bruno moves with his family from Berlin to the concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland-which Bruno calls “Out-With”-as Adolf Hitler appointed Bruno’s father to be commander of the camp. The e-book edition of the novel used for this study guide is a Borzoi book, published by Alfred A. ![]()
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