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READING ASSIGNMENT

By Nurdilda Ayaulym
Author: John Boyne
Country: Ireland
Language: English
Genre: Historical novel

About the author:


John Boyne was born in Dublin, Ireland, and studied
English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and
Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia,
Norwich.
He has published 14 novels for adults, 6 novels for
younger readers, and a short story collection. In
2012, he was awarded the Hennessy Literary ‘Hall of
Fame’ Award for his body of work. He has won 4 Irish
Book Awards, and many international literary
awards, including the Qué Leer Award for Novel of
the Year in Spain and the Gustav Heinemann Peace
Prize in Germany. In 2015, he was awarded an
Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University
of East Anglia.
Characters
Bruno and Shmuel
Main quotes of the story

“Their lost voices must continue to be heard.” "Those people... well, they're not people at all,
Bruno."

“And who decided which people wore striped "Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and
pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?” me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

“We don’t have the luxury of thinking ... Some Lieutenant Kotler: They smell worse when they
people make all the decisions for us.” burn, don't they?

“Just because a man glances up at the sky at


night does not make him an astronomer, you
know.”
The main themes

Friendship Innocence Nationalism

Their friendship opposes the Innocence is shown by Shmuel and One culture was the Germans who
Bruno because they were born believed that all Jewish people were
belief that "Jews aren't people at
during the Holocaust and had to live bad. Their idea of making their lives
all" by portraying Shmuel very
through the hardships of this better was just taking all Jews and
similar to Bruno
historical event. putting them in concentration camps.
"Of course all this happened a long time ago and
nothing like that could ever happen again. Not in
this day and age."
THANK YOU FOR
ATTENTION!
The Boy In The Striped
Pyjamas was a New York
Times no.1 Bestseller
and adapted for a
feature film, a play, a
ballet and an opera,
selling more than 11
million copies
worldwide

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