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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
What you need to know before your trail
The haunting story of a nine year old boy called Bruno caught up in a world of violence he knows nothing about. All he knows is that he used to live in Berlin and in a nice house too. Now, he’s been moved to a shabby house in an area desolate and cold where there is nothing to do and no one to play with.
Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.
Bruno’s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to a whole other world – of darkness, destruction, and innocence lost.
Locations
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Berlin
The house in Berlin was enormous and although the family has lived there for nine years, it’s still big enough to find new places to explore. Fathers offices is Out Of Bounds At All Times. But the new house had only three floors. He remembers the busy streets, the smell of the vegetables on the stalls, the scent of coffee and cake in the air, and the sound of people laughing.
Out With ( the new house)
But here in this new house, there’s something that makes Bruno thinks that non one ever laughed here. It just felt empty and cold as if he was in the loneliest place in the world
Over the fence
Auschwitz – and the familiar horrors here which are seen through the eyes of two young boys
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Author/Guide: John Boyne Destination: Auschwitz, Berlin Departure Time: WW2
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