The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

This is an outstanding fiction story full of emotions and surprises that take place in the Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1945, where a kid named Bruno, son of a Nazi officer, and her family, moved from Berlin to a concentration camp because of job promotion of his father, named Ralph. Bruno was not very happy of leaving Berlin and all his friends and memories behind, but he couldn’t do much about it considering that the promotion to his father was directly given by “The Fury”, or as correctly they used to call to Adolf Hitler: Führer. Family was compound by the mother of Bruno and her sister, named Gretel. Also with them where the maid, called Maria. The new job of Ralph was to administrate a big concentration camp, in fact, the biggest extermination camp in all Europe: Auschwitz. Gretel called that place: “Out-With”, wich was her way of pronouncing the name of the camp, just like she said: “I heard Father say that whoever lived here at Out-With before us lost their job very quickly and didn't have time to make the place...”

Once in Oświęcim (place that is located 43 miles west from Cracovia where Auschwitz is placed), they moved into a “calm” and modest house located in a considerable distance from the camp, a distance where screams on shouts from jewish people could not be heard. However there was a certain view of the camp, a not very pleasant one of the smoke coming out from the exterminate fireplaces. Bruno never understood what exacly was going on there. Her mother used to told him and her sister that people where working there, having good lifes with their families. Life in the new home was boring to Bruno despite the fact that he was surrounded by beautiful nature, he was feeling uncomfortable and limited because of the extreme discipline that was demand it by their father job partners in his new home. Just as his mother, his father, officer Ralph never told the truth of the mission of the job to his son Bruno and her sister, Gretel; but his wife, Helga, knew what was all going on in that place and she was against it. She would it be able to do a lot of things in benefit of the situation for everybody: their sons, their integrity and all the people that was prisoner and working there. Unfortunately her fear was bigger than her hope and will. In this cases, when in critic situations you need to take a side, make a decision, It’s easy to think: “Oh, I would do that, the right decision!” but the truth is that you’ll never know until you live that situation, because that kind of fear and stress that are polluting the environment it’s tremendous.

One day, Bruno and his nature curiosity, decided to explore the woods around the house, he started a journey playing with trees and running. Suddenly he arrived to a place that was divide it by a fence, a strange fence within the other side of it where big constructions and buildings. As he walks along the fence, he sees a boy, a jewish boy almost his age named Shmuel. They started in conversation and so they started to get along from the first time. Once he returned to his home, he didn’t said anything to his family. And so almost every day he goes and visit to his new friend from the