For this assigned blog I watched the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The movie begins with a family living in Berlin, Germany. The family consists of the father, who is a Nazi soldier, the mother, their daughter, and their son, Bruno. Ralf, the father, has been promoted to the commander of a concentration camp. The whole family moves with Ralf to a house next to the camp.
Bruno
Bruno has always been a very curious kid. When he arrives at the new house he notices men in striped pajamas working on what he thought was a farm near by. His mother told him he was not allowed to play with the children that worked on the farm. Bruno had no idea that they were concentration camp prisoners.
Bruno's sister, Gretel, was a supporter of the Nazi party, like her dad. Bruno did not think it was right, but he kept quiet like his mother. Bruno became friends with an old man in striped pajamas that worked at their house peeling potatoes.
One day Bruno became very curious and traveled to the fence around the camp. He met a boy his age located inside the camp. His name was Shmuel. Shmuel explains that he is a jew and that is why he is being kept inside the camp. The boys become friends and play games together from opposite sides of the fence.
Shmuel (the jewish boy inside the concentration camp)
Shmuel tells Bruno that his father has gone missing inside the camp and Bruno wants to do something to help. The same day Bruno's father decides that this is no place to raise kids and tells the children that they, along with their mother, will be moving the next day.
Bruno tells Shmuel and they come up with a plan that they will dig under the fence and Bruno will go into the camp to help Shmuel find his dad. Bruno successfully gets inside the camp, but they boys do not find Shmuels father. They boys are forced into a room with many other men and are forced to take off their striped pajamas. The men think that it's just a shower. Meanwhile, Bruno's family has noticed he is missing and they have searched everywhere looking for Bruno. His father noticed his clothes outside of the fence and went into the concentration camp looking for him. Bruno and Shmuel were taken into a room with all of the other men and the door was shut. The boys did not know it was a gas chamber. A soldier let the gas into the chamber and killed everyone inside. Bruno's father was too late.
I thought this was a very good movie, but it was also very sad. I liked that it showed a Nazi's point of view, a jew's point of view, and someone's point of view who is on the fence, not sure of what they believe. I thought it was a great movie that showed what it was like at the camps and area surrounding the camps, not just the battling like a lot of other World War II movies.
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Great job Courtney!