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A 9-year-old boy named Bruno is growing up during world war two in Germany. After a visit by adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, his father is promoted to Commandant. Bruno is initially upset about moving to "Out-With" and leaving his three best friends for life. One day, despite being warned not to, Bruno decides to explore the strange wire fence.
A 9-year-old boy named Bruno is growing up during world war two in Germany. After a visit by adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, his father is promoted to Commandant. Bruno is initially upset about moving to "Out-With" and leaving his three best friends for life. One day, despite being warned not to, Bruno decides to explore the strange wire fence.
A 9-year-old boy named Bruno is growing up during world war two in Germany. After a visit by adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, his father is promoted to Commandant. Bruno is initially upset about moving to "Out-With" and leaving his three best friends for life. One day, despite being warned not to, Bruno decides to explore the strange wire fence.
It's so unfair, I don't see why I have to be stuck over
here on this side of the fence where there's no one to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends are probably playing for hours every day, I'll have to speak to Father about it. Recommended for those who need to remember that they are not the only ones that suffer in the world, not now, not ever. Summary: A 9-year-old boy named Bruno, growing up during World War II in Berlin, Germany, lives in a huge house with his parents, his 12-year-old sister, Gretel, and servants, one of whom is called Maria. After a visit by Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, Bruno's father is promoted to Commandant, and the family has to move to "Out-With". Bruno is initially upset about moving to "Out-With" and leaving his three best friends for life. His mother, who is against the move herself, says that they "[do not] have the luxury of thinking". From the house in Out-With, Bruno sees a camp enclosed by wire fences but does not understand what it is. One day, despite being warned not to, Bruno decides to explore the strange wire fence. As he walks along the fence, he meets
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a Jewish boy named Shmuel, whom he learns shares his birthday.
Shmuel says that his father, grandfather, and brother are with him on this side of the fence, but he is separated from his mother. Bruno and Shmuel talk and become very good friends, although Bruno still does not understand very much about Shmuel and his side of the fence. As the meetings go on, Bruno's navete shows that his innocence has been preserved despite being near a death camp. Shmuel shares some of his knowledge of the suffering in the camp but still does not fully explain why he is there.