Schindler's List

This novel is look like the boy in the striped pyjamas´novel because in both novel we can see the Jews suffering by the Nazis. This novel is harder than striped pyjama´s novel becuase Nazis killed very hard the Jews and there is a lot of violence and it is clasiffication B.

Also this movie is look like striped pyjamas´ novel because in this novel Schindler help the Jews to not suffer and in the other novel Bruno helps Shmule to scape.

Information about the author ( John Boyne )

He was educated at Terenure College and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia,^[2] where he was the Curtis Brown prize. ^]

John Boyne is the author of nine novels, as well as a number of short stories which have been published in various anthologies and broadcast on radio and television. 

His novels are published in 42 languages. 

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which to date has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide, is a #1 New York Times Bestseller and a film adaptation was released in September 2008. Boyne resides in Dublin. He is represented by the literary agent Simon Trewin at United Agents in London, United Kingdom.

His most recent novel, Noah Barleywater Runs Away, reached no.1 on the Irish Bestseller Chart in October 2010 and it is a book for young readers in particular.

 His ninth novel, THE ABSOLUTIST, will be published in the UK in May 2011

Jews under the age of 18 years

John Boyne stated that some Jews under the age of 18 were sent to work for a few months, and then killed.
Some children were employed as camp messengers and were treated as a kind of curiosity, while every day an enormous number of children of all ages were killed in the gas chambers.


This information that John Boyne, the author, said is something terrible because kids in the camp were killed in the gas chamber and thats something that we can see at the end of the novel when Bruno and Shmuel were killed in the gas chamber.


Also, it is hard to hear this but it is real and hard in the Jews´live.

Characteristics about the novel

1.- This novel is not for everybody ( Clasification B15) . This means up to 15 years old.

2.- You can find this novel in many languages  ( English, Spanish, etc. )

3.- This novel will not have second part.

4.- It is based with the life of the Jews and Nazis.

The boy in the striped pyjamas 2 ?

I dont thinks this is a good idea, becuase the principal character dead and theres not something we can do to revive Bruno and Shmuel.

A gas chamber

Neither boy knows where this march will lead. However, they are soon crowded into a gas chamber, which Bruno assumes is a place to keep them dry from the rain until it stops. 
 Bruno's family spent several months at their home trying to find Bruno, before his mother and Gretel return to Berlin, only to discover he is not there as they had expected. A year after, his father returns to the spot that the soldiers found Bruno's clothes and discovers that the fence was not properly attached at the base and can form a gap big enough for a boy of Bruno's size to fit through. Using this information, his father eventually pieces together that they gassed Bruno to death.

This part make me cry, because it was something unexpected. I was too sad because Bruno´s family was looking for Bruno and Bruno was already death in the gas chamber. 

The final adventure

The story ends with Bruno about to go back to Berlin with his mother and sister on the orders of his father. As a final adventure, he agrees to dress with a striped pyjamas and across the fence to help Shmuel find his father, who went missing in the camp. The boys are unable to find him.  Bruno decides he would like to go home, but the Nazi guard start them on a march with Jew´s people.


This part was something that surprised me because Bruno help s Shmuel to find his father, doesnt care what happens. Bruno and Shmuel got in trouble with the Nazi guard, and Bruno couldn´t go home. In the last part, this make me sad.

Bruno finding a friend, Shmuel.

When Bruno was exploring the back of his house, he found a boy who was on the other side of the fence. That boy was 8 years like Bruno. Bruno was so exiting with that because he needed to have a friend to play with. Bruno introduces himself, blissfully unaware of the situation on the other side of the fence. The Jewish boy's name is Shmuel. He was taken from his family and forced to work in Auschwitz. Almost every day, they meet at the same spot. Soon, they become best friends. Bruno and Shmuel even shared the same birthday. They are basically the same person born into different circumstances, one a Polish Jew, the other a German. 

I like this part very much, because Bruno finds a friend to play with and that friend, doesn't care if he was jewish, had the same years as Bruno and both of them born had the same birth. That was something that amazed me too much.

Related information about the novel

Sorry people if i forgot this haha here i post you some information about the author and the novel that it is important to know.

The author of the novel: John Boyne ( Irish novelist)

Something amazing about the actor is that he wrote the entire first draft of the novel in two and a half days without sleep.

The novel was published in United States in January fifth ,2006.
In Spain, It was the best selling book in 2007-2008. This is something that amazed me too.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Author	John Boyne
Country	Ireland
Language	English
Genre(s)	Children, historical,Tragicomedy, Fable
Publisher	David Fickling Books
Publication date	5 January 2006
Media type	Print, paper cover
Pages	216 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-385-60940-X
OCLC Number	62132588
Dewey Decimal	823.914 22
LC Classification	MLCS 2006/45764

This information you can find it in wikipedia and other many web pages.

Bruno exploring the back of the house

Bruno finds out he is not allowed to explore the back of the house or its surroundings, and his father is very stern in forbidding him to do so. Due to the combination of curiosity and boredom, he decides to explore.


I like this part because when you dont have something to do, you sometimes want to play imagine an other world. Because Bruno is 8 years old, he decide to explore back of his house and he is not allowed to explore but because he doesnt have nothing to do, he decides to explore and to play with his airplane.

A soldier called Llewelyn Kotler

I was reading the novel and i found a soldier who´s name is Llewelyn Kotler. From all that i read, i saw that he was a secondary character because when Bruno´s family moved to the new house, he was working in that house with Bruno´s Father. 

He was a violent soldier in is ways showing his behavior with Pavel, a jewish who was working in Bruno´s house.

I didn´t like this character because he is too violent with the Jews and with Bruno.

People with the same striped pyjamas

One day while Bruno is looking out of his window he notices a bunch of people all wearing the same striped pyjamas. In that day, Bruno asked to her sistes who wehe the people with the striped pyjamas but she didnt know who where that people so he asked to his father who were that people with the striped pyjamas but his father told him that they were not real at all. He told him that they were Jews.


I liked this part because Brunos thought that the Jews were people with striped pyjamas. He thought this because Bruno is just a child who can imagine anything and that is funny. Also i didnt like it because Jews are mistreted by the Nazis and they are prisioners so thats why they were using clothes like striped pyjamas.

Description of main characters in this novel

Bruno= He is a typical child, he is happy and curious, as the son of a German Nazi officer he has been raised wanting for nothing and well off. As he is still young when he meets Schmuel he doesn't understand the difference between them, he doesn't understand that the Jews were 'evil' in the eyes of the German's, and he doesn't understand the terrible conditions of the concentration camp. This innocence and equality between people is hugely important in the story.


Schmuel= He is a young Jewish boy who has to live life in the concentration camp. Even though he is treated terribly he is still a rather optimistic and friendly child. He knows that the Germans have taken him and he cannot leave the camp and he is still very accepting of Bruno. This also shows that in the eyes of a child we are all the same and share love for one another regardless of religion.


Bruno´s Mother= The Mother is a very caring character. She loves her children and only wants what is best for them. Although she is initially accepting of her husbands career, throughout the film she makes discoveries that alter her opinion on the war. She is also a rather innocent character and comes across as extremely naive concerning what happened in the concentration camps, but again this is representative of most of the German population, who were continuously lied to.

What i read today?

Today I started reading the novel and I read that Bruno, a 12-year-old son of a senior officer during World War II, lived very happily with his family in a big house until one day he moved with his family  because his  Dad took over the concentration camps and thats make for Bruno to  left all his friends he had in Berlin, staying alone in his new home.

This part of the novel made me feel bad because Bruno was a very happy boy in Berlin playing with his friends and after they moved , Bruno does not have anyone to play in his new home and now he is alone and boring without adventures with his friends.

The boy in the striped pyjamas, A good novel

     This book interested me a lot because my book talks about how the Jews suffered by the Germans but most of all because in this story are two children, although different,are looking for a friendship between them.