The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Summary

One day Bruno came home and found Maria,the maid,packing up his stuff. She was packing because father had got a new job offer and they had to move. The new house they moved to was a little smaller than the old one. The new house had 3 stories,3 bedrooms,and 1 bathroom. It was still a nice house that he called the “Out-with”. Bruno thought that they should have kept his sister,Gretel,at the old house because she was being really annoying. When Bruno got to his room he looked out the window and off in the distance he saw men and boys in striped clothing walking to a fence. Later that night he had to talk to his father about what he had saw. His father told him to not worry about it. A few days after that Bruno was staring at the ceiling,looked out the window and saw a figure sitting at the other side of the fence.

Bruno hasn't seen his grandparents since he moved to the Out-with. He had written a letter saying how he wishes he could be back in Berlin.Bruno noticed that the people on the other side were wearing striped pajamas Bruno found out their was a boy that shoveled on the other side of the fence. The boys name was Shmuel.  Bruno and Shmuel found out that they were the same age and had the same birthday. They also looked a lot alike. Surprisingly the two boys were a lot alike.

When Bruno's mom is setting up for his father's birthday party Bruno gets to deal with Lieutenant Kotler. After Bruno finally gets away from Lieutenant Kotler Bruno goes into the kitchen to find Shmuel washing washing dishes, Bruno asks why Shumel is there and offers him food, but Shumel turns the food down afraid that Lieutenant kotler will come back and catch him. After the party Bruno goes and talks to Gretel, while Bruno is talking she discovers lice in her hair. Disgusted Bruno’s mother and said that it was the houses fault the kids got lice.With all the fury in mother she makes the decision to take  the kids back to Berlin. At first Bruno was happy he was going back to Berlin,then he remember Shumel.

When Bruno visits Shmuel he finds out Shmuel's dad went missing without a trace an Shmuel went looking for him. Bruno makes a daring plan to under the fence and help Shmuel look for his dad. On the day Bruno goes back to Berlin, Bruno goes to visit Shmuel. Shmuel gives Bruno some clothes and tell him to roll in the mud so he can look natural. While the two boys are looking a horn blows. When Bruno asks Shmuel what’s going on he responds that a march is happening that is where people never come back . After that the two boys were never heard from again.

If the book continued on for 3 more days Bruno's mom and Gretel will go back to Out-With and search for Bruno. Bruno's mom will find out what happened to Bruno and have a hard time moving on with the thought of what happened to Bruno. Gretel will become less annoying and more nice. I thought The Boy In The Striped Pajamas was very interesting and taught a lot about the holocaust. I thought it was very interesting when Bruno met Shmuel for for the first time and found out that they were both born on the same month, same day, and same year. I also thought it was interesting when Shmuel got forced to go to Bruno's house and clean and polish the dishes.