What is the summary of the Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

Answer 1

The wood is symbolism in 'the boy in the striped pyjamas'. It represents the line between the 'good' (Nazis) and the 'bad' (Jews). As the boy discovers the concentration camp, he has to cross the line each time he visits. When he makes the decision to go into the camp disguised as a Jew in the end, he forces his whole faily to cross the line and realise how this is wrong. They belive that Jews are the 'enemy' and if a Nazi's son can be mistaken as a Jew, it forces them to realise that Jews and Nazis are the same.

Answer 2

a boy named Bruno meets a boy in a war camp named shmul (shmool), but dosent yet know that he was imprisoned by his own father.

at the end Bruno goes with shmul to find shmuls long lost father, but ends up getting gassed with all the other Jews.

Answer 3

Bruno is a nine-year-old boy growing up during World War II in Berlin with his loving family. He lives in a huge house with his parents, his twelve-year-old sister Gretel (whom he refers to as a Hopeless Case) and maid servants called Maria and Lars. His father is a high-ranking SS officer who, after a visit from Adolf Hitler (referred to in the novel as The Fury which Bruno mishears [like with Out-With] and should be Fuhrer) and Eva Braun, is promoted to 'Kommandant', and to Bruno's dismay the family has to move away to a place called Out-With (which turns out to be Auschwitz).

When Bruno gets there he feels a surge of homesickness after leaving behind his family, grandparents, and his three best friends for life. He is unhappy with his new home. It only has three floors, there are always soldiers coming in and out of the house and there are no good banisters to slide down. Bruno is lonely and has no one to talk to or play with and the house is so small that there is no exploring to be done. However, one day while Bruno is looking out of his window he notices a bunch of people all wearing the same striped pyjamas and striped hats or bald heads. As he is a curious child, Bruno asks his sister who these people are, but she does not know. His father tells him that these people are not real people at all. They are Jews. Gretel has changed from a normal young girl into a strong Nazi with the help of her tutor, Herr Lizst, but Bruno does not seem to take the same stance as Gretel. He still prefers adventure books to history books though. There is also a soldier called Lieutenant Kurt Kotler who is violent in his ways and shows his disapproval to the Jewish prisoner, Pavel. Pavel works around the house and is always treated like slime by Lieutenant Kotler. One day Bruno falls off his swing and Pavel helps him dress the wound. Bruno, in his naivety, asks if his Mother should take him to a doctor, meets a reply from Pavel saying that he is a doctor.

Bruno finds out he is not allowed to explore the back of the house or its surroundings, and his father is very stern in forbidding him to do so. Due to the combination of curiosity and boredom, he decides to explore. He spots a boy on the other side of the fence. Excited that there might be a boy his age, Bruno introduces himself, blissfully unaware of the situation on the other side of the fence. The Jewish boy's name is Shmuel. He was taken from his family and forced to work in Auschwitz. Almost every day, they meet at the same spot. Soon, they become best friends. Bruno and Shmuel even shared the same birthday. They are basically the same person born into different circumstances, one a Polish Jew, the other a German. He, across the book shows a great deal of naivety whilst his friend Shmuel seems to have more knowledge of his surrounding as he has felt the suffering first-hand.

The story ends with Bruno about to go back to Berlin with his mother and sister on the orders of his father. As a final adventure, he agrees to dress in a set of striped pyjamas and goes in under the fence to help Shmuel find his father, who went missing in the camp. The boys are unable to find him. Just as it starts to rain and get dark, Bruno decides he would like to go home, but they are rounded up in a crowd of people by the Nazi guards who start them on a march.

Neither boy knows where this march will lead. However, they are soon crowded into a gas chamber, which Bruno assumes is a place to keep them dry from the rain until it stops. The author leaves the story with Bruno pondering, yet unafraid, in the dark holding hands with Shmuel. "...Despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go".

In an epilogue, Bruno's family spent several months at their home trying to find Bruno, before his mother and Gretel return to Berlin, only to discover he is not there as they had expected. A year afterwards, his father returns to the spot that the soldiers found Bruno's clothes (the same spot Bruno spent the last year of his life) and, after a brief inspection, discovers that the fence is not properly attached at the base and can form a gap big enough for a boy of Bruno's size to fit through. Using this information, his father eventually pieces together that they gassed Bruno to death. Several months later, the Red Army arrives to liberate the camp and orders Bruno's father to go with them. He goes without complaint, because "he didn't really mind what they did to him any more", believing his loss of his son and arrest were consequences for his anti-Semitic war crimes.

Answer 4

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is about a young boy who's father is promoted to being a guard at Auschwitz. He wanders to the fence of the camp and befriends a young Jewish boy around the same age. One day, this boy states that he can't find him, and the other boy crosses the fence to help look for the boy's father. I won't tell the rest of the story however.

Answer 5

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a fable by John Boyne that was published in 2006. A movie was made in 2008.

Bruno is a young, innocent boy during WWII. The son of a commandant, he has the perfect life until he has to move because of his father's job. Bored at the new house, he goes exploring and creates an unusual friendship with a young Jewish boy when he comes across a barbed-wire fence.
There is a good article on the Boy in the Striped Pajamas on Wikipedia. That has a good summary of the plot.
the boy in the striped pajamas is a meaningful book and it give you the opportunity to think. It means you only discover things as bruno does. this book About a Boy living next to a concentration camp is a real reminder and give good insight. i wouldn't say it taught me much but it really encouraged me to learn things about the Holocaust. * Brunos farther was taken by british soldiers when the camps had been discovered * Out-With is Auchwitz being mispronounced by bruno * Lieutenant Kotler was taken by the nazis after he accidentally reveled that his farther was against the nazis in some way. it is the best book in the world my best read i recomend it!:):):):):):):):):):):)

Answer 6

the boy in the striped pajama is about a little Jewish boy being in a concentration camp. well not to far away there is a little German boy whos father is the nazi general. well the boy see's something burning and tells his father. the said to his father " what is is it smells really bad." the father said they were just burning old wood and old toys. well we all know what was burning. ( Jews) the boy further investigates and see's this little Jewish boy at the fence and they talk and become close friends. the boy decides to sneak under the fence one day and the Nazi's that were gaurding the camp told all the children that it was time for a shower. well the little German boy's father found out were he went and when he finally got to the camp it was too late because the boy had already been drowned in one of the gas chambers.

i thought it was the best movie ever. i personally think that you should watch it. god bless you and your family, Josh

Answer 7

Bruno and his family move to a different house near Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland. Bruno mishears it and calls it "out with". Bruno was very upset about moving and wanted to go home. When he went into his room he could see a what he thought was a farm out of the window. His mother told him that he couldn't explore out the back garden but one day he didn't listen and went round there.

He explored and found a fence that he thought it was a farm. He meets a boy called Shmuel. Bruno finds out that they were born on the same day, april 15th 1934. After a few months Shmuel appears to have a black eye and Bruno thought it was just a bully. It was really lieutenant Kotler who beats the Jews.

After another half a year or so Shmuel ends up in Bruno's house polishing glasses when Bruno sees him. Bruno denys knowing Shmuel which gets Shmuel into trouble. Later on Bruno finds out that Shmuel's dad was missing. He was obviously killed but Bruno and his friend did not know that. Bruno,s dad shows the soldiers a a video about the concentration camp but Bruno sees it by looking thought the top of the door. It gives a false impression. As bruno thinks its a nice place he agrees to go to the other side of the fence with Shmuel. Nobody recognises him because he is dressed as a Jew. He digs a hole with a shovel and gets through to the other side. They try to find his father, but couldn't find him. Then they look in his hut which is crowded. The soilders take everyone in the hut to a chamber or room. Bruno trys to get out but Shmuel convinces him to stay as he thinks its just a shower. They are told to get undressed and enter to next room. At this time Bruno's family know he's in there and try to get him out. His mother is screaming. Finally a soldier pours gas into the chamber and all the Jews are killed and gassed. It shows smoke coming out of the building to show they are being burnt . Although this is a work of fiction, Auschwitz was and is a real place that saw many thousands of people killed in gas chambers.

Answer 8

Main characters dad is a very important ranking Nazi and they move next to a concentration camp. The main character befriends a boy in the camp through the fence and sneaks into the camp one day. That happens to be the day when they gas everyone in the camp and they die together.