Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Ch. 1-4

The book starts out with Bruno coming home to see his family packing. He is slightly angry that a maid for his family is packing his stuff and might find his things that he keeps for himself in the back of his wardrobe. He then asks his mother why are we packing. His mother tells him that they are packing because his father got a new job and are moving to a new house to make his job easier to commute to. So for a while it talks about how he loves his house and why he wants to stay. So he finally starts to pack. They finally leave the house and arrive at the new house. Bruno doesn't like the house because it is small with nowhere to explore. While he is unpacking his sister comes in and talks to him.When she goes away he looks out the window and looks to see what there is. After looking out he goes to his sister and talks to her about what he saw out the window. When she asks what he means he just walks to his window and she follows to see. When they look out they see the yard and a very tall fence with barbwire at the top of it. Past that there are people in stripes "pajamas" walking around covered in dirt. They think that the people are just poor and don't know why they are there. My reaction to this is that it is sorta funny that they have no idea that the people are in a concentration camp.

1 comment:

Daniel said...

I also thought that it was funny when they didn't realize that it was a concentration camp, but I had to realize that they hadn't heard of such a thing. The book starts off a little dry. Nothing exciting happens.