Innocence V. Ignorance in Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
Throughout the novel The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas there are many examples of Innocence and Ignorance. Most of the innocence revolves around Bruno while the ignorance is more common amongst the elder aged protagonists such as Bruno’s mother.
Bruno’s Betrayal
How does he use language to convey Horror in Bruno’s betrayal?
Boyne uses language techniques such as alliteration and connotation to convey a horror of the holocaust and the war. This is effectively seen in the passage where Bruno betrays Shmuel and refuses to aknowledge their friendship. Boyne successfully creates a picture in the readers mind that appeals and engages the senses. An example of this is where Shmuel stops crying and is ‘merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore,’.
The horror of the holocaust is depicted using language techniques such as alliteration and connotation. One passage that successfully conveys a sense of terror and shock occurs when Bruno betrays Shmuel by refusing to aknowledge the friendship between them. For example…This effectively demonstrates…
It may be suggested that the true horror in this passage is obviously the fact that a young boy will be beaten savagely, however it also clearly shows how the holocaust inspired betrayal.
Remember
Successful authors will create a picture that engages the senses (sight, sound , feeling). The more completely a readers senses are engaged, the more vivid the picture in their mind, thus the more engaged they become with the text.
Essay Help:
Talk about the sheer violence of the holocaust and the friend against friend horror. (shmuel/bruno)
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – Film-Book Comparison
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas film was created in 2008 and was directed by Mark Herman. It is a very rare example of a film being more effective and better than the actual book itself. The film was more powerful and confronting than the book through the use of various film techniques and the adaption of the book by the director to involve the audiences more effectively.
In the film there are several key aspects that are left out which over all contribute to the movie being more effective than the book. The director chose to leave out Bruno saying “out-with” (Auschwitz) and “the Fury” (Fuhrer) to make Bruno seem less ingnorant and more involved. Bruno in the film is a lot more intelligent and involved than he is in the book. It is made more realistic in the film because the director has adopted the book and changed it. You are able to see the raw emotion and responses made by Bruno a 9 year old would generally do. Bruno seems to learn about what is going on more than he does in the book and he becomes involved a lot more. He even seems to be very intelligent about when to sneak out and how to hide the food and so on.
Film Techniques also dramatically make the film more effective. Music contributes to the scene depending on how it is used. For example in the last scene the music used is very eery and intense.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 novel about living on the fringes of the Holocaust, from the point of view of a naive young boy, written by Irish novelist John Boyne. Unlike the months of planning Boyne devoted to his other books, he said that he wrote the entire first draft of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in two and a half days, barely sleeping until he got to the end. [1] To date, the novel has sold more than 5 million copies around the world, and was published as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in the United States. In both 2007 and 2008 it was the best selling book of the year in Spain. It has also reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list, as well as in the UK, Ireland, Australia and many other countries.
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