The Boy In Striped Pajamas

Retell:

The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is about a boy named Bruno, who is the son of a Nazi commander. Bruno is coerced to move from his old home in Berlin where all his friends lived, to a new place where there was no one living except for them (well that’s what Bruno thought at first). Bruno was a young boy who loved explore. One day, Bruno goes into a forest that was near their new home, and he continues to go deeper into the forest. Bruno then comes upon a fence, and behind the fence he sees a boy, who looked like Bruno’s age, wearing striped pajamas. He had no shoes. The two boys quickly become friends and they a lot about each other and discover how different their lives are. Bruno constantly visits Shmuel, the boy in stripped pajamas, and he also brings food for the boy to eat. Bruno would also bring some of his toys so that they can both play. One day, Shmuel tells Bruno that his father is missing. Bruno then decides to help his friend find his father, but to get past the fence Bruno needed to wear the stripped pajamas and needed a shovel to dig up a hole to get through. Shmuel brings Bruno striped pajamas, and Bruno brings a shovel from home. Once Bruno got past the fence, the two boys went looking for Shmuel’s father. The boys accidentally end up with a group of people going into the gas chambers, and that was the end of them.

Relate:

This movie, the boy in striped pajamas, relates to the event that happened in Rwanda. The country was going through poverty because of social, economic, and political issues. This caused the nation to fall apart, because of the Hutu, an ethnic group. The Hutu’s began to blame the other group Tutsi for causing trouble in their nation. Later on, a Hutu president was killed, this sparked commotion in the nation. The Hutu’s rioted, blaming the Tutsi for murdering the president. Genocides began to take place, the Hutu’s executed the Tutsi inhabitants in large numbers.

This event relates to the movie because mass murder of a specific ethnic group took place in both scenarios’. In the movie, Jewish people are killed in gas chambers, because they were accused for the difficulties that was taking place in the country at the time. The same thing happened to the Tutsi population, they were also executed.

Reflect:

After watching the movie, I felt a deep pang of anger. It was really heartbreaking to see the two boys die. The movie made me realize the importance of a child's innocence that may lead them to do drastic things, and how unbearable damages could corrupt a young ones’ mind. Shumel, had went through a lot of hardships. Even Bruno, though he was not a child soldier or anything like that, he had seen a lot at a young age. This shows that certain events can change a person greatly.