This week I started to read the Boy in the Striped Pajamas. This book is a story of a young boy that has to live through the Holocaust. However, this story is the opposite from many other holocaust books. This story is about the 9 year old Bruno and his family having to move from Berlin to the small countryside in a house called "Outwith". Bruno's father works with "The Fury" which what seems to be the Nazis. So far in the story, Bruno has been trying to adjust to the new house, and the idea of leaving Berlin.
The author shows Bruno as being a boy who loves his father, but doesn't understand why his dad would make him do something so horrible. Brunos mother is also struggling to adjust to "Out-With". She, being older knows why Brunos dad is making them move here. Even though she wants to be loyal to her husband, she cannot agree with what they're doing. For example, in chpt. 5, Bruno remembers back to what it was like when they were leaving the house in Berlin for the last time. "We should have never let the Fury come to dinner. Some people and their determination to get ahead", said his mother as she walked out the door. This is showing that his mother obviously didnt agree with what her husband wanted.
I think that eventually, Bruno is going to realize that "Out-With" is his real home, and hell continue to want to see his father less and less. I think Brunos mother will become even more angry with Father than Bruno, as she finds out more and more about "The Fury" and why they had to move from Berlin. I think that the "Fury" isnt really a group or the nazis, b
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