The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas Book Summary
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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Author: John Boyne
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Year of publishing: 2006 number of points: 1 number of pages: 216
Summary:
When Bruno came home his mother explained that they had to move because his father got a new job. Near Bruno’s new house where no other houses or children to play with. Bruno showed Gretel the people he could see from his bedroom window. They were wondering what people they saw. He asked his father why they had to move and what kind of people he saw. The people Bruno saw weren’t really people and he should just ignore them. Bruno was swinging in a tree and fell off. The cook named Pavel, cleaned his wound and told Bruno he used to be a doctor. When mother came home, she told Pavel that he had to say to his father that She had cleaned up the wound. Bruno was bored and wanted to explore. He found a fence and behind that fence Bruno discovered a boy named Shmuel. They got talking and became friends. Shmuel had to wash glasses in Bruno’s kitchen because there was a family diner. Bruno wanted to give some food to Shmuel, but the Lieutenant saw this. Shmuel said Bruno gave it to him and that it was his friend. But Bruno said he never seen Shmuel. The Lieutenant became very angry and hit Shmuel. The Grandmother of Bruno and Gretel died and they went back to Berlin for a weekend. He asked Gretel why he wasn’t allowed to go to the other side of the fence. Gretel explains that that where Jewish and that