Bruno

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Bruno is the protagonist of the novel. He is a somewhat naïve nine-year-old ^[blurb] boy growing up in Nazi Germany (though John Boyne doesn't directly say this).He was taken from Berlin to Out-with,a house not too far fro what is implied to be a concentration camp.Throughout the novel,Bruno asks why he was taken there and what is the "Farm" he sees through his bed room window.Some time in the novel,he befriends Shmaul,a boy in striped "pajamas" who is later identified as Jewish.Bruno also is friendly to Povel,a man he thinks-after Povel tells him he was practicing to be a doctor-gave up trying to be a doctor to become a farmer/potato peeler.In reality,he was a Jewish prisoner.Later on Bruno is getting the idea something wrong is going on when Povel is beaten by a soldier(in the movie it is indirectly shown he was beaten to death) and Shmaul is beaten too,but only a black eye,when he was eating food given by Bruno-Bruno,scared,tells the soldier who saw Shmaul eating that he didn't. Later on shmaul reveals that his father is missing(though we can suspect he was killed).So the next day,Shmaul brings another set of "pajamas",gives them to Bruno-who goes under the fence-,and they both go looking for Shmauls dad.Suddenly the Nazi soldiers take them to the "showers",where the people in the striped attire have to take their clothes off.They are then all ralied in a metal room where the lights go off.Bruno apologizes for them not being able to find Shmauls father.The boys shake hands before the "chaos" begins.It is not truly said(the movie giving a little more obvious but still being oblivious)but it can be guessed that Bruno and Shmaul died in what can be guessed as a gas chamber.In the book,nobody knows what has happened to Bruno,but in the movie,the father realizes what will happen before it does by seeing the empty huts and the SS soldier dropping Zyklon B pellets(according to the Wikipedia page on the 2008 movie of the same name)into a hole right over the gas chamber,which we guess went to the water for the "showers".