The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
2006 • 240 pages
Ratings115
Average rating3.7
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Ratings115
Average rating3.7
Nine year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country.
All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.
Bruno’s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.
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it pisses me off that teachers are STILL assigning this fucking book to their students. every time a kid at my workplace tells me they're reading it for their english class it makes me want to scream!!! it's important to teach about the holocaust and you can't do that by using a book where the author has done NONE of the proper research required for such a topic. this should have never been published.
Reread 2020: had to reread The boy in the striped pajamas for school. It's a book with such a powerful message.
I hate reading a whole book only for the last pages to be even remotely good. and just because its in the pov of a nine year old boy, does not excuse the kiddish writing. ahem the kite runner?
I fail to believe that the son of a high ranking officer in the SS would not know that his country was at war, that the 3rd reich hated Jews, have such glaring problems pronouncing words in his own language. I could go on. The story was moving, this I cannot deny.
There is an absolute wealth of good WW2 lit for kids, this is not it. Why was this adapted for film?
