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READING ASSIGNMENT
By Nurdilda Ayaulym
Author: John Boyne
Country: Ireland
Language: English
Genre: Historical novel
“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?
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."
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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