The Boy in the 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, and a Jewish Concentration camp inmate. The boy is forced to move from his old home in Berlin, to a new one in in a place called "Out-With". The young boy loves to explore, and goes out into the forest to do just that. Bruno comes upon a fence, where a boy wearing striped pajamas, no shoes and a cap is seated. The two boys become friends and learn that they have many similarities and differences. Bruno constantly brings the boy food and toys for the both of them to play with. One day, Bruno is told by Shmuel, that his father is missing, as Bruno decides to help him find him. In order to get past the fence, Shmuel brings Bruno striped pajamas, and he brings a shovel from home. The boys are accidentally herded into a group of people going into the gas cambers, and take their last breaths in there together.

Reflect:
            This movie showed how a child's innocence may lead them to do drastic things. While Bruno was fulfilling his end of the friendship, the two of the boys were met with their untimely death. "Out-With", which Bruno heard incorrectly, was actually "Auschwitz", and "the Fury" was actually "the Fuhrer". While Bruno thought it was adventurous to go into the woods and explore, he did not realize the consequences he would have to face later on. Going under the fence was something that Bruno did not think much of, as he did not know what it meant to be inside of it, and it led to him getting killed. Due to his childish approach to things, he did drastic things, which had drastic consequences.

Relate:
          After watching this movie, I can relate it to the quote below, as prior to the Canadians infiltrating the Jewish concentration camps, the soldiers thought that these camps were just a myth. Prior to this, these people thought that concentration camps would not be as bad as others said they were, which was almost as if they were seeing an illusion. The quote relates  both to the Canadian soldiers, as well as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, because it shows us that ignorance is bliss, and that if one does not know about something, then they have no reason to act upon it. People choose to ignore things, because it may taint the way in which they see things.