1. A The title of the book is The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

B The author is John Boyne

C The author is from Ireland so he is an English writer.

D The book was published in 2006

2. Summary

Chapter one: Here Bruno is told by his mother that they are moving outside of Berlin to Out-With. His father gets a new job and his family is moving with him.

Chapter two: They arrive at the new house which Bruno does not like, it is too small and there is nothing to do around.

Chapter three: Here we meet Bruno’s sister Gretel who he agrees with that the house is no good.

Chapter Four: Bruno and Gretel discover a camp behind their house with all men. They don’t know what to think of it. They discuss if it is the countryside but agree that it is not.

Chapter five: Bruno goes to his father to ask why they are in the no good house. His father tells him that he was sent by the fury. And that Bruno has to make the best of their new home. Then he asks his father who the people outside are. His father tells him that they are not really people and that he shouldn’t worry about it because it has nothing to do with him.

Chapter six: Here Bruno has a conversation with their maid Maria who he asks if she likes their new house. Maria tells Bruno that his father helped her and that he must be careful what to say about his father.

Chapter seven: Here Bruno makes a swing in a tree. When he is finished and he is swinging is goes to high and falls off the swing and gets hit by the swing. He nearly faints and is takes to the house by Pavel who cleans his wound on his knee. Later on they chat a bit and Pavel tells Bruno he is a doctor which Bruno doesn’t believe at first. When his mother comes home she tells Bruno to go upstairs and he hairs her saying ‘if the commandant asks, we’ll say that I cleaned up Bruno’. Which he thinks is unfair of her to take the credit like that.

Chapter eight: Here Bruno talks about his grandparents how he loves his grandmother. And that he and Gretel and his grandmother make a play every Christmas but during the last Christmas his grandmother got in an argument with his father about being a soldier. And how he hasn’t seen his grandmother since.

Chapter nine: in this chapter Bruno is getting ready to explore around his house. There is a bench outside with a plaque on it. On the plaque it says that camp Out-With was opened in 1940.

Chapter ten: Bruno discovers a boy after an hour of exploring. The boy’s name is Schmuel. They start to talk about exploring and then discover that they are born on the same day.

Chapter eleven: Her e we go back in time again to the night that the fury came to their house. Bruno and Gretel are told by their father that they have to be quit and aren’t allowed to stay with them downstairs during dinner. Eva Braun is with the fury Bruno likes her and thinks she is very beautiful. He doesn’t like the fury and thinks that he is the rudest guest ever.

Chapter twelve: Bruno and Schmuel talk about how their lives are changed. Schmuel tells Bruno that he lived above his father’s watch shop. And how he got inside the fence. At the end Bruno and Schmuel leave.

Chapter thirteen: Here Bruno and Schmuel talk some more about their lives. Then back at Bruno’s house his family is having dinner and lieutenant Kotler does something nasty to Pavel. Pavel seemed sick or week and accidently dropped a bottle on kotler’s lap.

Chapter fourteen: in this chapte it rains and Bruno is very sad that he can’t go and see Schmuel. He has a conversation with Gretel who he tells that he has a friend. An imaginary friend. He tells her about Schmuel and about his live.

Chapter fifteen: When Bruno is going downstairs he sees Schmuel sitting in his kitchen. He talks to Schmuel and gives him something to eat. Schmuel doesn’t want it but later he accepts the food. Then lieutenant Kotler walks in and smells that Schmuel has eaten something and asks him why he has stolen the food. Schmuel tells Kotler that Bruno is his friend. Bruno freezes and tells Kotler that it isn’t true. Bruno is scared of lieutenant Kotler. The next day when Bruno goes to the fence to meet Schmuel he is not there. After a week Schmuel is there again all bruised up. They make up and Schmuel forgives Bruno when he tells Schmuel that he is scared of lieutenant Kotler.

Chapter sixteen: Bruno his grandmother dies and they go back to Berlin for the funeral. It pleases him to know that he has grown because he can look out of the highest window in the highest room for which he always had to stand on his tiptoes. When they are back in Out-With he asks Gretel why he isn’t allowed to the other side of the fence. Gretel explains that they are Jews and that ‘we’ don’t like the Jews. Bruno doesn’t understand it fully but he’s able apprehend it a bit. Then his sister discovered that they both have lice and Bruno’s hair is cut off. The next time Bruno sees Schmuel, Schmuel laughs at Bruno for his hair. Bur is looks the same as Schmuel his hair.

Chapter seventeen: Bruno hears his father and mother argue about Out-With. His mother thinks it isn’t a healthy place for children. A few weeks pass and then his father tells Gretel and Bruno that they are going back to Berlin to their old house. Bruno isn’t sure what to feel about it he’ll miss Schmuel if he goes back to Berlin. But all his old friends live in Berlin.

Chapter eighteen: Bruno tells Schmuel that he is leaving for Berlin. Schmuel is very sad because he lost his father a few days ago. Bruno says that he would’ve liked to see Schmuel’s place. Schmuel invites him then they can look together for his father. Bruno come up with a plan and they agree that the next day Schmuel will bring some striped pyjamas for Bruno and then Bruno can come along to the other side of the fence with Scmuel.

Chapter nineteen: Bruno arrives at the place where he always meets up with Schmuel. He changes into the striped pyjamas. They go into the camp. Bruno doesn’t like it there no one is happy everyone is sad. Then they go exploring to find Schmuel’s father. Then at the end of the night some soldier make a group of people go together. Schmuel and Bruno are inside the group. They gave to go on a march Bruno doesn’t want to because he needs to be at home in time. But they have to go they are led to an airtight room. Bruno thinks it is because of the rain. Then he holds Schmuels hand.

Chapter twenty: In this last chapter we learn that nothing was heard of Bruno since that. His father looked for him and the soldiers went through the whole house. He was nowhere to be found. Then a villager found a pile of clothes that belonged to Bruno his father takes a look and doesn’t understand it all. His mother returns with Gretel to Berlin in the hope that Bruno is there. Of course he’s not. The after a year his father goes back to the place where Bruno clothes were found and discovers that a boy would be able to climb under the fence to the other side. He knows immediately what happened to Bruno. His father leaves Out-with a couple of months after that. Happy to be somewhere else.


3.

The title is the boy in the striped pyjamas which is Schmuel and in the and Bruno as well. This is a main point in the book so that’s why it is the title.


4. A The story takes place in Berlin, Germany and Auswitz, Poland.

B It plays in World War two.

C The story is not chronological. There are some flashbacks in the story when Bruno thinks

about things that happened in Berlin before they came to Out-With.


5. A The main characters are Bruno, Schmuel and Bruno’s family.

B Bruno is the son of the commander in the Nazi army. He looks up to his father and loves his

mother and grandmother. He dislikes his older sister whom he calls a ‘Hopeless Case’. He also likes to explore and play with his friends. Schmuel is a boy on the other side of the fence at Out-With. He is like Bruno but had a very hard time before and after he got to the camp. He is skinny and has a grey face and of course a striped pyjama. Gretel is Bruno’s older sister and she thinks Bruno is to childish at first she loves her dolls but later in the story she throws them away. Then Bruno’s mother she cares a lot for her children and is fond of Bruno. She doesn’t like it when they have to go to Out-With. But she is proud that her husband has such a high rank. Father is a character who is very on his own and very much the head of the family. He takes all the decisions he also has a very loud voice so that everyone is silent when he speaks. He is a good leader and men like to work with him.

C Gretel grows up a bit. She gets serious and stops teasing Bruno and focus’s on following what’s happening in the war.


6. A To show a different side of World War two.

B The message is that by a little change something can go really bad. And that how children

are a victim of war and how really sad such a thing is.

C Not really but it show’s the horror of a war. So people think twice before going into war.

D It does not address any social issue.


7. A I liked the novel very much because it show’s a war true a child his eyes. Whit out all the

blood and gore.

B When he meets Schmuel there is a conversation about why Schmuel is on the other side of the fence. And when he thinks that whit out his fancy clothes he looks just like Schmuel. It is beautiful to see that honesty and that there is no difference between humans like that.

C That I will not make war. And the even though people are different we are still all humans.

D Two and a half hour I guess.