John Boyne

John was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1971. He studied english at the Trinity College in Dublin as well as being a student of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and started writing stories later on. While he taught at the Irish Writers Centre and the University of East Anglia, he was awarded the writing Fellowship for 2005. His first book was The Theif of Time and it was published in 2000 after that he wrote The Congress of Rough Riders one year after. He wrote The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in 2006 and it was quickly watched by both adults and children then the film was released in 2008. He lives with his wife in Dublin, while creating his new book The Terrible thing That Happend to Barnaby Brocket. The book is about Barnaby Brocket who is born with a disability of defying Earth's gravity pull. He is a lonely boy who has no friends and floats ten feet in the air. This book relates quite well with The Boy in the Striped Pajamas because all three children are lonely, Bruno moves to another town not knowing anyone, Shmuel being a Nazi camp worker not having known his father and Barnaby Brocket always ten feet above everyone, they all have a loneliness relationship in common but still making them different from one another.

Bruno

          In the story The Boy in the Striped pajamas sets during a time of the war. Based around the Aushwitz camp Bruno is forced to move away from his home town to the Nazi camp, this is dramatic irony because we see that it is a Nazi camp but Bruno sees it as a new world . Hes quite innocent in the fact that all he wants to do is play and find new friends.  Bruno being the innocent young boy is just interested in exploring the new world but he cant because he has some new limitations. He decides to go with his instinct and go beyond the out of bounds area. He comes across a fence with another young boy on the other side. This is major dramatic irony because we know that the people on the other side of the fence are Adolf followers but Bruno just sees a new friend. Through out the book we see that Bruno and Shmeul friendship strengthens but as we read more we quickly figure out that its not looking good for Shmeul. When Bruno promices Shmuel that they will find his father Bruno blatently decides to shred all his clothing and put some stirped pajamas on. This is definetly a foolish choice only made by a child, but it seems like the right thing to do because he has very immature thinking.

The Boy in The Striped Pajamas Summary

                   The story the boy in the striped pajamas takes place around a concentration camp named Auchwitz. Bruno the main character is a child who likes to play alot. He is forced to move out of his home town Berlin to an area called Aushwitz but he hears it as "Out-with". He has more restrictions and there are many places that are out of bounds for him. When Bruno decides to ignore the rules he finds a out of bounds area that has a fence around it. On the other side of the fence was a boy named Shmeul. They quickly find out that they share the same birthday, and Bruno notices him wearing no shoes, striped pajamas and a armband with a star on it. He became quite curious why there were people on the other side of the fence, and why were there so many. Later that night Brunos father had dinner guests over and Bruno did not approve. The mans name was "The Fuhrer" and his date was Eva. Bruno's sister Gretel "The Hopeless Case" became quite fond of the two and tried very hard to impress the two of them.

                    Bruno still decides to ignore the rules of the house and continue exploring the woods around his house. He brings food for Shmeul every once in a while and the others lament the fact that he is unable to cross the fence and play with his friends. Shmuel stresses about not knowing where his father is so Bruno decides to promice to him that he will find his dad. Shmuel promiced to grab some striped pajamas for Bruno so that they can find Shmeuls father on his side of the fence. The soilders start to herd up the prisonners, Bruno aswell and they are forced into a gas chamber where they have their own lives taken from them.