The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Blog #3

             The Boy in the Striped Pajamas has a very slow moving plot. As of now, very little things relating to the Holocaust have come up that I can relate history to. So far, Bruno’s family moved to a new house because his dad is a Nazi soldier. Near the new house, there is a concentration camp. Bruno one day happened to see it out his window and has a lot of curiosity as to what it is. Other than that, the main problem is that Bruno hates his new house and desperately wishes he could move back to Berlin.

One connection from the story, to historical fact, that I found interesting was that, according to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Between 1933 and 1945, Nazis in Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison its many millions of victims.” Assuming that Bruno’s father needed to find a closer camp for his job, he had to move cities away from his old home to find one.

According to Wikipedia, parents, because they believe strongly in something, will usually raise their children to believe in those opinions too. However, Bruno’s parents didn’t even mention their beliefs to him, in this case anti-Semitism. This means that when Bruno develops his own opinions, they could potentially be positive about Jews, and he may be angry with his father for being a Nazi soldier.