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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas :

WORKSHEET FOR CHAPTER 2

Instructions: Exploring Setting
In this chapter, we are going to look at the Brunos new home, Out-With (the new house is given this name in Chapter 3) and compare it to his former home in Berlin. What are the differences between them and what do the differences imply? Differences between the house in Berlin and Out-With. Setting Details House in Berlin Out-With

1 Location Pg _______

Significance Of Location

Street 2 Scene outside the house Pg _______

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Significance of Street Scene

3 Size Pg _______

Significance of Size of Houses

What is the main significance of how the 2 places are being set? . . . . . . . . . .

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TEACHERS EDITION - Possible Answers Differences between the house in Berlin and Out-With. Setting House in Berlin Out-With Details - Stood on a quiet street - Stood all on its own in an - Alongside other big empty, desolate place houses (always nice to - There were no other 1 Location look at) houses anywhere to be Pg 11 - Other boys live in them seen whom he played with - Which meant there would be no other families around and no other boys to play with, neither friends nor trouble Significance Of Location 2 Street Scene outside the house Pg 12, 13 Sense of belonging to a larger community Sense of disconnection from the world

When you walked towards the centre of town there were always people strolling along and stopping to chat...or rushing around There were shops with bright store fronts, and fruit and vegetable stalls with big trays piled high with cabages Feeling his head grow dizzy with the mixed scents of sweetness and life

there were no other streets around the house no one strolling along or rushing around, and definitely no shops or fruit and vegetable stalls everything around him just felt empty and cold, as if he was in the loneliest place in the world the middle of nowhere

Significance of Street Scene -

sense of home, neighbourliness, life

sense of isolation, coldness, emptiness, lifelessness

Enormous Despite knowing the house from birth, he

Had only three floors (top floor, ground floor, basement)

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was still able to find nooks and crannies that he hadnt fully finished exploring There were even whole roomsthat he had barely been inside Implies freedom, ease of movement, perhaps sense of happiness Implies limitation of movement, stifling environment

Significance of Size of Houses

What is the main significance of how the 2 places are being set? This is a technique of foreshadowing in which the author is preparing his readers for the life to come for Bruno (and perhaps his family). For Bruno, his normalcy will be taken away from him and in its place something less optimistic is taking over. *At this point time, there is not much to say about what is taking over. This, however, will be seen clearer as the novel progresses.

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