What are we learning: To connect text to real life.
How does this show my learning: I have created a book review.
What could I improve on: the depth I went into ( I was running out of time).
I am wondering: what other books has this author written.
This is a book review I wrote for the boy in stripped pajama's for social studies. Warning, spoilers ahead.
The boy in striped pajamas book review.
The boy in striped pajamas is set in 1943 and follows the story of nine-year-old Bruno,
the son of a German commander
. Bruno’s life was happy,
a normal nine year old boy living in a house he loves and playing with his good friends until ‘the fury’
( Hitler) visited his father and ordered him to leave so he could work a new job in Poland.
The story starts off innocent until the first twist in the plot appears, changing how we see the world in the main character's perspective. The shift in emotions and setting starts the ever changing plot of ‘The boy in striped pajamas’.
Bruno, oblivious to the fact he lives in Poland, finds a fence shortly after moving in to his new home in ‘out with’.
Behind this fence sat a boy his age in ‘striped pajamas’
. If the reader wasn’t informed of the Jewish holocaust they would be as naive as Bruno.
The boys befriend each other and a new friendship begins, one that is not permitted to exist. The concept of a forbidden friendship entices the reader and keeps them hooked until the final pages.
When lice eggs are found in the family’s hair, Bruno has his hair shaved off… When he sees Shmuel he realized he would blend in over the fence. Shmuel's father goes missing and Bruno crawls under the fence to help look for him, being the kind friend he is. It is in the final pages that the narrative takes a turn; we are left wondering what happened on the other side of the fence…
The boy in striped pajamas hooks you in, keeps you wondering then hits you hard in the final pages.
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