Friendship in the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne is an author from Dublin; he was born on 30 April 1971. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. John Boyne is the author of eight novels, as well as a number of short stories which have been published in various anthologies and broadcast on radio and television. His novels are published in 42 languages. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is one of his novels that sold more than 5 million copies.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas that a novel created by John Boyne. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a novel that the stories tell about Bruno a boy that moves to Auschwitz because his father got a promotion as a commandant from the Fhurer, but theis stories I thought is more to tell about friendship Bruno and Shmuel. The novels plot is during the World War II. It when the Germany “NAZI” were reign over the German and they kidnapped the people of Jews that they are really – really hate. And in this novel is tell us especially me that I get from the novel is about a friendship that happened to those children Bruno and Shmuel. Which is they are had a different one and each other, especially on the background, Bruno is a son of a commandant of a “NAZI” soldier but Shmuel is a Jewish. Although they both had a different background they still had good relationship as a best friend that capable to do anything like sacrifices each other without any doubt.

The first friendship that the firstly when Bruno move to Auschwitz. It the first time Bruno meets Shmuel and become a friend. In this chapter we can look how they can intimate each other with a short conversation, and become the most conflict in this novel that make the novel great.

The second and the third are sharing and sacrifices that they do each other. That I mean with sharing each other is Bruno and Shmuel always can share anything like food and fun together. And also sacrifice each other like when Shmuel hungry or probably he is starving, Bruno try to brought some food from the house without knowing from his family and the people in that house. The other sacrifice that they both doing is when Shmuel looking for his father they looking for together, with Bruno agreed that he want to help to looking for Shmuel father and changing his cloth to a stripped pajamas, until they get in into a gas chamber that they don’t know because the rain and crowded people, they still try to help each other with holding hand one and other.

The character in this Novel they are Bruno as a main character and a major character, Shmuel as a second main character, his mom, dad, and sister Gretel and also a soldiers as a figurant in this story to make the plot more life. In this line I want to try to analyze about Bruno as a main character and as the most major character in the Novel. Bruno is an 8 years old boy growing up during World War II in Berlin with his loving family. His characteristic is looks like a usually boy in his age active, want to know something new, etc. but because His father is a high-ranking SS officer who after visited by the Fuhrer and his lover to his country, he is promoted to be a Commandant, and to Bruno's dismay the family has to move away to a place to Auschwitz. When Bruno gets there he feels a surge of homelessness after leaving behind his family, grandparents, and his three best friends for life. He is unhappy with his new home. 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. In this story Bruno character is an important, because he is a main character that makes a conflict and the story keep going in the plot, with Shmuel they make the story more interest with the relationship and friendship that they show to us.

From the character that I see in this story about Bruno is, he is a pity child that causes moving home and separated with his friend and the people that he love in his old house. And he got a little happier after meet Shmuel even though they are have a deferent background they still can be friend, a best friend.

The last is the plot, the plot in this Novel is during a World War II when the Germany “NAZI” taking over the country. In that time the NAZI kidnapped all of the Jewish and make them to force to work without paying but they will be killed by the soldier if they can’t be useful anymore.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is teaching us many morality and value, like how the soldiers do to the Jewish at the time and also we can get a lesson from Bruno and Shmuel friendship and sacrifices. In this book I get we shouldn’t differences anything even the background of someone else.