<The Boy In The Striped Pajamas>, John Boyne

I saw this book cover at the library,

and i couldn't help borrowing it.

(So creative and well designed!)

Even though I already knew 

how it ends, it still broke my heart.

When I first heard this novel's ending 

i just thought it was shocking.

But when I read through page by page,

following up how all circumstances looked like

in 9-year-old boy's eyes, i felt so miserable.

This boy's pureness - he didn't understand the

holocaust, and why people wearing those

"striped pajamas" - paradoxically intense

this horrible and inhumane history.

How I wanted to stop him 

but knew i have nothing to do with it,

oh it really makes me so painful.

John Boyne did a smart work as he 

create and build up this boy's character

and make him to watch and speak

about how the world's most horrible acts

have been done in history.

So powerful and miserable novel. 

#1 Shmel and Bruno argue every time when they talk about Bruno's father - higher commander of the Nazi.)

Shmuel bit his lip and said nothing. He had seen Bruno's father on any number of occasions and couldn't understand how such a man could have a son who was so friendly and kind. 

#2 'right custume' this word imply many things, and Bruno's dark future is one of them

'It reminds me of how she always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be, she always told me. I suppose that's what I'm doing, isn't it? Pretending to be a person from the other side of the fence.'

'A Jew, you mean,' said Shmuel.

#3 Finally Shmuel and Bruno meet face-to-face without fence between them

Bruno had an urge to give Shmuel a hug, just to let him know how much he liked him and how much he'd enjoyed talking to him over the last year. 

Shmuel had an urge to give Bruno a hug too, just to thank him for all his many kindnesses, and his gifts of food, and the fact that he was going to help him find Papa.

Neither of them did hug each other though, and instead they began the walk away from the fence and towrads the camp, a walk that Shmuel had done almost every day for a year now, when he had escaped the eyes of the soldiers and managed to get to that one part of Out-With that didn't seem to be guarded all the time, a place where he had been lucky enough to meet a friend like Bruno.

#4 so hard to read this passages because it broke my heart so hardly

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. 

'You're my best friend, Shmuel,' he said. 'My best friend for life.'

Shmuel may well have opened his mouth to say something back, but Bruno never heard it because at that moment there was a loud gasp from all the marchers who had filled the room, as the door at the front was suddenly closed and a loud metallic sound rang through from the outside. 

Bruno raised an eyebrow, unable to understand the sense of all this, but he assumed that it had something to do with keeping the rain out and stopping people from catching colds. 

And then the room went very dark and somehow, despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let it go.

#5 left family of Bruno and the end of the story

He(Bruno's father) went to sleep every night thinking about Bruno and eh woke up every morning thinking about him too. One day he formed a theory about what might have occurred and he went back to the place in the fence where the pile of clothes had been found a year before. 

And that's the end of the story about Bruno and his family. Of course all this happened a long time ago and nothing like that could ever happened again.

Not in this day and age.