This book is about a boy named Bruno. He is nine and he lives during WW2 in Berlin, Germany. The story begins with him coming home from school. He is ecstatic! For he made plans. He comes home and goes straight into his room to find one of the maids of the house (Maria) putting his things into suitcases. He goes downstairs to confront his mom. She claims that they’re moving away.
Bruno’s mom tells him that his dad has been promoted.
This doesn’t make him any less upset. He begins to narrate the house, how he used to slide down the banister, and how he scraped his knee doing it once. He talked about how his dad’s office was, and I quote “Out of bounds at all times and no exceptions”. He wanted to cry. He had lived there all his life. The next day, he said goodbye to his friends. When he got home they got in a big red car with his later mentioned sister, Maria, and his mom.
The car had a Nazi symbol on the door and on two flags by the hood. Once he’s in the car, he says bye to his home one last time.
When Bruno sees the house he’ll be living in for the “Foreseeable Future”, he is disappointed. He sees that it has three levels while his old house back in Berlin had five. Although he doesn’t know that this place is a concentration camp, his window is right outside the camp.
He and his sister (Gretel) looked outside wondering why it was there. There were loads of boys and they were all wearing the same thing: Striped Pajamas. Bruno thought to himself that it could be a neighboring town.
The story gets interesting when Bruno decides to see how far the fence on the edge of the camp goes. At one point, he begins to see a speck in the distance. After a while, That speck became a boy. That boy’s name was Shmuel. After Bruno and Shmuel met, they became close friends. Every day, except when rainy, Bruno would sneak him bread and chocolate. The same routine went for more than a year.
He was so excited, that he wanted to go on the other side with Shmuel. So he did, and when he did, he had been brought a pair of striped pajamas. He blended in so well, that the soldiers mistook him for one of the boys who had been “Ready”. So they took him, Samuel, and a group of other people into an airtight room, where he was killed by deadly gas. And through all the chaos that happened when the door to that cold room closed, he found himself holding Shmuel’s hand the whole time.
In conclusion, I cried fifteen times thinking about the end of that story. I didn’t see that ending coming. And that’s a good quality for a story. I like stories with surprises. And although that book was terribly sad, it’s a good book and a real page-turner.
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