Even so, I don't think the purpose of the book was to bring the audience into Auschwitz, but for the audience to accept that there are fences, however small, that separate us from one another, and are we looking at the people on the other side of the fence with the same humanism that Bruno did with Shmuel? I suppose that's my greatest criticism of this book. Bruno was there for over a year with a bedroom 50 feet from the fence where men would fall to the ground suddenly and need soldiers to carry them away. Any descriptions are censored by Bruno's untainted child's mind - a technique that I thought was cute in the first few weeks at Auschwitz but felt needed to be undraped as Bruno who surely have experienced. There are some critics who challenge that the story is not honest about the cruel conditions of Nazi concentration camps and I think that is certainly valid. And from this perspective, perhaps the character of Bruno had to be so behind-the-curve naive. In fact, Bruno saw his friend Shmuel as his best human contact in this terrible new home even though he couldn't touch or play with him. Bruno never accepted his father's viewpoint that the people in striped pajamas weren't human. I felt the story to be compelling and served a good purpose. I don't know enough stars names to answer the second question. The different portrayal of the young boys felt mostly genuine and in the spirit of the novel.Ĭould you see The Boy in the Striped Pajamas being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be? The performance was just fine and perhaps even provided some added value. What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike? Boyne as an author even if I'm not want to recommend this title. Would you ever listen to anything by John Boyne again?
I suppose there was some karmic value in the irony of the plot but I think it falls flat considering that fact is much more awful than fiction. I feel that some things require reverence and fictionalizing a piece of history in such a way that was presented here, in a way, diminishes the truth. I didn't much appreciate the characterization of the young Nazi boy. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
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