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= = == =Author: John Boyne= John Boyne is the author of the book __The Boy in Striped Pajamas.__ He is irish and so far has written 7 other novels. For one of his lucky ones, __The Boy in Striped Pajamas.__, he won 2 irish awards, sold more than 5 million copies, and was the 6th highest selling book of 2008. His novels are published in 41 languages. Currently he lives in Dublin working on is eighth novel.

Bio: http://www.johnboyne.com/biography.html = = =Intro=

My Thematic Book Report is on the popular book __The Boy in Striped Pajamas.__ When Bruno moves from Berlin to the countryside near a concentration camp, his curiosity starts to get to him. He goes exploring. While walking near the fence he sees a speck, as he walks closer, that speck becomes a dot, then the dot becomes a blob, then that blob becomes a boy. Bruno and this boy, Shmuel start a forbidden friendship. If his father found out he was talking to a jew he would become very angry. Bruno and Shmuel then create a plan to explore. This plan has a bad feel to it for me. If you want to find out read the rest of the book! I like this book because it is written very simply and was easy to understand, as written from the mind of a nine-year old.

=Characters= = = Bruno: He is a light hearted 9-year old boy from Berlin who comes from a rich Nazi family. His father has a very high rank in Hitler's army, so high that Hitler even comes to his house for dinner. He loves to explore and finds himself at a fence looking at a little boy named Shmuel

Shmuel: He is also a nine year old boy from a small town, and as a matter of fact, he and Bruno were born on the same exact date. He got pulled out of his house, got separated from his family, and ended up at a Concentration Camp. He also ends up at the same fence as Bruno and starts a strange friendship with Bruno

Gretel: Bruno's twelve year old sister who is a hopeless case.

Father: A high ranked Nazi soldier

=Setting(s)=

The story starts out in the busy Berlin, Germany where Bruno has a 5 story house, if you include the basement and the top window where you stand on your tippy toes to look out across the city. He has his best friends forever for life there too, Karl, Daniel, and Martin with their plans to be famous adventurers when they grow up. The family then moves into the countryside near a concentration camp. Where he meets Shmuel.

=Theme= The theme of this book is knowing that you can make friends with anyone, even if complete opposites and that friendship is stronger than anything.

It also shows the harsh reality of World War II and the evil and cruelty of the Holocaust.

= = = **Types of Camps** = Labor Camps - People did phisical labor and were treated under harsh circumstances.

Collection Camps - These were for temporary holding of Jews before being sent to concentration camps.

POW camps - These held prisoners of war, many of whom were tortured

Death Camps - Hostages were killed (mostly in gas chambers)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps

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To buy this book: http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Striped-Pyjamas-Reader/dp/0198326769/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267721834&sr=8-10