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Boy In The Striped Pajamas Sociology

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The movie The Boy In the Striped Pajamas touches on horrors and conveys the full terror of the Nazi genocide. Our protagonist, Bruno, is living with his father, who is in command of concentration camp. Bruno does not realize what his father is in charge of, and he thinks that concentration camp is a farm. When Bruno tries to explore the place, he stumbles upon a boy in pijama. They start a conversation about ‘pajama’, that Shmuel, the boy behind the barbed wire was wearing. Bruno does not realize that Shmuel wears prisoner’s clothing, referring to his prison uniform as pijamas. What I really liked about this movie is Bruno’s innocence. He does does not realize the horrors of the genocide, and thinks that the numbers sewn on his garb are actually

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