I recently read a book called "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," by John Boyne. It was a very good book, but you do not want to read it unless you want to become seriously depressed (I did become seriously depressed by reading this book). This book is about a boy named Bruno who father is a high-ranked Nazi during World War 2. Bruno's family moves to a prison camp so that his father can oversee the camp. Bruno is exploring and he goes to the boundaries of the camp. There he meets his best friend Shmuel. Bruno sneaks out to see Shmuel every day. One day Bruno sneaks over into the camp to help Shmuel find his father. The get led to the gas chambers and die. Brunos sister and mother moved away and his father went insane and felt he had no reason to live.
As I told you, this is a depressing book. Although it was depressing, I believe the author did a good job mixing historical events. I believe he did that by mixing a war into a fictional book. He also did that by incorperating the prison camps in it.
I believe the author did a good job with Bruno's feelings. Bruno's feelings were the lot a same of a real nine year-old boy. For example, when Bruno moves away he misses his friends. The author also did a great job expressing Bruno's bordeness with his new house. I recomend this book to anyone who wants to be depressed.
p.s. I commented on Blake M.'s blog.
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I've read this book too. It is interesting to me how the author makes Bruno innocently respect his father so much, but also make friends with Shmuel. I really like the way the author wrote it so you find out about the situation in bits and pieces.
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Ryan
This sounds like a good book. I'm not sure I would read it because I don't want to become briefly depressed, but it sounds like a high quality story by a good author who does a nice job mixing historical events at the time, which is in the 1940's I believe since it sounds like WWII era. Keep up the good work Sam ;-)
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