For my second assigned blog, I watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. And I tell you what, this movie had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. I cried!
It all begins with a little boy named Bruno that comes from a wealthy family and his father is a solider so he must move wherever his father goes. Bruno moves into this new house and he is a very adventurous boy so he goes running around in his back yard when he finds a fence and follows it till he sees a little boy on the other side with striped pajamas on the other side. Bruno starts asking the little boy questions to see what hes doing there and he finds out his name is Shmuel. Bruno asked why Shmuel wears pajamas all day and he says its because the soldiers took his clothes. Bruno tells him that his dads a solider but not the one that takes clothes away.
Bruno and Shmuel become very close with each other and they play games together but the fence is what keeps them apart. Bruno asks his older sister questions about why Shmuel is on the other side of that fence and she says its because theyre the enemy. Bruno knows that his father is a good man and he wouldnt hurt anyone. One day as Bruno was visiting Shmuel, he notices that Shmuel isnt happy and its because he cant find his father. As the dedicated friend Bruno is, he puts on a pair of striped pajamas and sneaks into the fence to help Shmuel find his father. As they are searching around to find Shmuels father when a call is made to the males in the fence that its shower time. All the men take off their clothes due to the order of a higher power and they are crowed into a room where the door is shut and sealed behind them. Screaming and yelling begins as to what is going on, the boys hold hands due to fright and at the top of the sealed room is a hole that opens with a man at the top peeking in with a gas mask covering his face, smoke fills the room and men are banging on the door and walls wanting out. After a few moments, there is silence.
This movie was very sweet because this boy met a kid that was different and he became attached fast! It was so cute that they wanted to do everything together and when the little boy couldnt find his father because his father died and he didnt know about it, the other little boy wanted to help him and when he helped him, he risked his own life. When they held hands, it brought a tear to my eye because I knew it was the end but it was a happy ending because they died together. When I was in 7th grade I went to Bryan Middle School and my social studies teacher Mr. Brookes was very dedicated to his job and he loved every bit about what he knew and taught us. We learned about The Holocaust and it made us feel like we were really apart of it. We watched movies and saw pictures of men that were just skin and bones. We saw piles of dead people when they were in the concentration camps. It was a very scary sight to see and it still blows my mind that it was apart of history. Seeing what those people went through was heart breaking. I remember my teacher dressed as a man that survived The Holocaust, he came into our class room with a hat on, fake facial hair, and different clothes. He was telling us that he lived it and it was unbearable. He lifted his sleeve and there was a number, he said everyone got it. You didnt get called by your name, you got called by that number. It was a memory Ill never forget.
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