Point-of-View is a very important literary element in both novels and movies. This movie is from the point-of-view of a German child during the Holocaust. Why do you think the writer of this movie chose to tell the story from Bruno’s perspective? How do the following characteristics of his perspective affect our idea of the story:
- German
- Child
- Male
- Wealthy
- Powerful family
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In the movie, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, the point of view during the Holocaust was from a German child named Bruno. I believe the writer of the movie chose to tell the story from Bruno's point of view to show through a child's eye on what they will view through the horrors of the Holocaust. Bruno has lived in a wealthy and powerful army, since his father was a soldier. And after moving to a house that was next to a concentration camp, Bruno starts to inspect it as well as keeping a friendly relationship with a Jewish boy that was within the concentration camp.
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Heidi Ramos
12/16/2013 12:38:15 pm
In the movie, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, it was the point of view of a German male named Bruno. I think the author put Bruno a German boys perspective to show the audience a different perspective than just the Jews. He was German and it could be because the author wanted to let us know how painful it must be to the Germans as well, like how the mom cries and is breaking down, the grandma didn't approve of it. This one phrase that the father of Bruno said " life right now isn't about choice, its about duty, so if they tell you to fight, you fight". This shows how like the Jews the Germans didn't have choice either and maybe it was just trying to show how not all Germans are bad and to start looking at how it affected the Germans.
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Alexander Trujillo
12/16/2013 12:38:42 pm
In the movie, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the point of view during the Holocaust is a German child during the Holocaust. I believe the writer of the movie chose to tell the story of Bruno's perspective to show from Bruno's eyes to and see the evil that is happening in the world with the soldiers abusing the Jewish people. Bruno and his family are wealthy because it seems his father is a higher officer and he got a promotion. Bruno has a very powerful family, because his father can command soldiers what to do. Since Bruno's family moved to a new house, he finds a camp and doesn't know it is a concentration camp. Later when he reaches to the camp he finds a child and then start to have a friendly relationship. Bruno later finds out that Shmuel is Jewish even though he is Jewish, it doesn't really bother Bruno.
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Susana Gonzalez
12/16/2013 12:51:36 pm
In the movie, The Boy In the Stripped Pajamas, the point of view during the Holocaust was from a German boy named Bruno. I believe that the writer of the movie chose to tell the story from Bruno's point of view in order to demonstrate through the perspective of a child's eyes and the experiences that they gain through the events of the Holocaust.The protagonist in this case Bruno has lived within an affluent and powerful artillery, since his father was in the position of a soldier. In addition, after moving to a new house next to a concentration camp, Bruno begins to explore the area as well as developing a friendship with a Jewish boy named Schmuel that lives within the camp.
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Leonel Rivas
12/16/2013 01:15:47 pm
In the movie, The Boy In the Stripped Pajamas, the view of the holocaust is seen by a young boy named Bruno. I believe that the writer of the movie chose to tell the story from Bruno's perspective to show the innocence that the children had during that time. For example if he would have told the story using a german soldier perspective we would see slaughter and awful things throughout the movie but by using Bruno we see how he questions the whole thing. We also see how Bruno doesn't know anything and has to find things out for himself he even thinks that the uniform of the jews are their pajamas and questions his friend why they are always wearing them.
The movie , The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is told in the perspective of a German male child with a wealthy powerful family. Bruno , the german child has a father who is a soldier during the holocaust. The creater of this movie decided to make this movie into a Germans point of view to demonstrate that Germans do not have a choice either. It is the Germans duty to serve thier country in a way to show respect to the leader.The viewers then have a different perspective that all including Germans were effected by the holocaust. For example, Bruno's grandmother did not respect or was proud of her son and what he was doing . The protagonists mother also disapproved to this injustice way of treating the Jewish. Bruno's father even says to the mother when they have a quarrel, " life right now is not about choice , it is about duty , so if they tell you to fight , you fight " . In addition , they use a innocent child to persuade the viewers on feeling sympathy for the Germans who are affected by this event. Towards the begining a scene of Bruno and his friends playing shows innocence . Bruno and his friends let thier imagination flow and they do not realize and are naive of what is going on around them . Jewish people are being transported into trucks. When children do or are accused of something people cannot always stay mad at them because they are simply inocent. The writer wanted the viewers to be known to both perspectives of the inhumane holocaust led by Hitler during World War 1 .
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Jennifer Chupin
12/16/2013 01:41:15 pm
In the movie, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the perspective of the movie comes from a young German boy named Bruno. I think the author choose to do the movie from Bruno's perspective because it wants could show both sides of the Holocoast. It could show from a young German boy or a young Jewish boy's perspective. This child is from a German wealth family since the boys dad is a soldier himself. He recently got promoted to a better job therefore they had to move on to a closer home of whre they did all the damage. Bruno got a little curious and decided to explore leading him to meet a Jewish boy named Shmuel that was held in the concentration camp. All it does is to show that Germans were also unaware and wanted to stop. It also shows the innocence of both childs and it resulting in sympathy.
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Ashley Guerrero
12/16/2013 01:45:40 pm
I believe that the writer or director of the movie, The boy in the stripped pajamas, purposely gave the point of view of a German because society had rarely been exposed to the point of view of a German in the Holocaust. I believe in a way the writer wanted to show that there was not evil in every German involved in the Holocaust, the writer expressed this through the eyes of an innocent child. The wealthy, powerful German family seemed to be brain washed by the constant exposure to Jews being "bad" or "animals".
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Victor Esteban
12/16/2013 02:03:59 pm
The reason I think that the writer of this movie focus on the perspective of a German child, was to show how the German people were treated to be. As we can see in the movie, a tour teaches the kids that the Jews are bad. He does this through a book he assigns the child to read. We as people see the Germans as bad people, however what we don’t know is that some German people were force to have these beliefs and were affected by the holocaust.
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Yerlin Lopez
12/16/2013 02:07:45 pm
In the movie, The Boy In the Stripped Pajamas, the view of the holocaust is seen by a young boy named Bruno. I believe the writer of the movie purposely picked a German young boy to represent the innocence of a German person through the Holocaust as people believed every German is evil for what they did to the Jewish people.Bruno is the complete opposite to these stereotypes as his innocence does not make him hate the jews and he is friends with one as Schmuel is now his friend.Bruno comes from a wealthy family and his father is a German soldier which the writer shows that a person like Bruno with his background is educated to blame the Jews for everything and believe they are evil yet he does not.
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Michael Ponce
12/16/2013 03:08:04 pm
In my opinion the writer for The boy in the striped pajamas wrote the movie in a German Childs perspective because it would depict the innocence of the child in not knowing what was happening around him. Little by little the Childs mind deprived from his innocence because his most of his family was pro Nazi. Even though Bruno the protagonist of the movie came from a wealthy powerful family he was still humble and kind to others even the Jews. In fact Bruno made friends with a boy who he thought was a farmer but little did Bruno know the boy was a Jew living in a concentration work camp near Bruno's temporary home.
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Yesenia Garcia
12/16/2013 11:28:22 pm
In my opinion, the writer of this movie chose to tell the story from Bruno's perspective because he wanted to show had a German child would see the world different from jew children in the camps. The writer showed how the story of a boy from a wealthy and strong family could have the innocence to have a friend that is a Jew. Bruno is an innocent boy and knows that Shmuel is a Jew, but he also knows, from the story that his tutor tells him, that the Jews are mean. Bruno doesn't really believe that he is mean and could do such things that his tutor tells him.
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Angel Mis
12/16/2013 11:29:26 pm
The story focuses around Bruno as it tries to iffer a different perspective on the Holocaust. By seeing it from the point if view of a rich German boy, it helps to see the ignorance that arose in people during thus time and how people tried to brainwash the youth. Being a male also shows how sexist people were at the time, offering a different way to see the genocide from, as told by the people who profited From the suffering.
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Joshua Vissoni
12/16/2013 11:40:51 pm
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is told in Bruno's point of view because it still demonstrates the elements of the holocaust but through German eyes. In other holocaust movies it is told through a jews point if view and includes suffering, fear, and oppression. Through Bruno's point of view we can see from the other side how a wealthy family lived during the holocaust and how most times they were unaware of what was going on in the concentration camp.
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Jason Zepeda
12/17/2013 07:44:09 am
I expected the boy in the striped pajamas, Shmuel, to die, so if he were the protagonist, the ending would have been predictable, but also unoriginal. Bruno, a German, gives the movie a whole different perspective. People don't really sympathize for the Germans, but Bruno is a different case. His death was unexpected, which is maybe why the movie is as sad as it is.
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Lady Panfilo
12/18/2013 07:51:29 am
In the movie, The Boy in the Strip Pajamas, is told by a little German boy name Bruno. The author wants us to see how Germans saw the holocaust and they had a different ideas about it. We see that some of the German people were ignorant and didn't see the pain that they were causing to the Jews. Bruno saw all of the things that were going on but still didn't see that the Jews were suffering until he dies beside his friend Shmuel.
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Anahi Ramon
12/18/2013 09:34:48 am
In the movie, The Boy in Striped Pajamas, is told by a little German kid named Bruno. The author wants us to see how a innocent German kid saw the holocaust and how he had a different idea than his father and sister about being a soldier. We see that Bruno saw everything that was happening because they told him that Jews are mean or cruel but he ignored it and had a Jewish friend called Shmuel. This makes us feel the movie more sad to know how friendship of kids can learn how it used to be before.
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Tania Celestino
12/18/2013 11:09:38 am
In the movie,The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, was from the point-of-view of a German child during the Holocaust. The writer of this movie wanted to demonstrate how not all Germans were evil and wanted to have the Jews killed, instead it would show an innocent wealthy boy, Bruno, who did not have the same believes as his father. He is taught that Jews are the enemy but he still keeps his friendship with Shmuel and even offers him help. At the end of the movie, Bruno dies and his father understands how painful it is. This causes people to feel sympathy for Germans which is rare to feel when they think about the Holocaust.
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Leticia Diaz
12/18/2013 11:51:33 am
In the movies, The Boy In The Stripped Pajamas we see the holocaust through the perspective of a young rich white German child. I tend to believe that the author choose this child to specifically tell the story of the Jews holocaust to give the audience a different of what happened during that time. The young eight year old boy was chosen so people would actually see and feel what the Germans felt during the holocaust. If an older member was chosen to play the roll people would have probably ignored the movie and thought that the movie was just made so we could feel pity toward the German and not just the Jews. I think this character was chosen specifically because of his ignorance towards the holocaust and innocence.
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Oscar Torres-Soria
12/18/2013 10:13:19 pm
I believe that the author chose to point-of-view of a German boy (Bruno) because one can see how the Holocaust can not only affect the lives of Jews, the lives of ordinary families. If thee author would have chosen to show the point-of-view of an Jew (Shmuel), then the story would have been just another story of a Jew that has been taken to a concentration camp.
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Diane Leal
12/18/2013 10:52:00 pm
In the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas has a a German little boy as the protagonist. The author uses the boy named Bruno to show his innocence and how his fellow Germans, family and everyone around him, influence him. As Bruno goes to visit Shmuel everyday, the more he understands him and get along. The author was using the barbed wire fence to show the border between them, but little by little Bruno began finding ways around the border. I am very inpressed with the characters the author used.