The Boy In The Striped Pajamas End Essay Essay

The Boy in the Stripped Pajama’s Journal: Section 3 pages 104-150
Brandon Black
In the third section of the book “The boy in the Stripped Pajamas” introduces “Shmuel”. Bruno comes upon a fence that he follows until he sees a young boy sitting on the other side of the fence. The shoeless boy is wearing striped pajamas and a cloth cap. Bruno also notices that the boy is wearing an armband with a star on it. Bruno makes fast friends with the boy, Shmuel. Chapter 11 goes back to describe the evening in Berlin several months earlier, when the “Fury” comes to Bruno’s house and everything changes. Fury being satisfied and impressed, “what a lovely dinner has it been this evening” (page 122) Back in today’s age, Bruno asks Shmeul why there are so many people on his side of the fence and what they are doing there. Shmeul reflects upon his past to search for an answer, leading to thoughts about wearing Jewish armbands every time he got out of his house and that he had to move with his parents in a small flat in Cracow shortly after. He described the place being very uncomfortable “There was one small window in it but I didn’t like to look out of it because then I would see the wall and I hated the wall because our real home was on the other side of it. And this part of town was the bad part because it was always noisy and it was impossible to sleep. And that eleven of us had to live in one room.” (page 127) This passage really delivers a message of discrimination as Shmuel and his family and to be moved from his house to a small flat being surrounded by soldiers and a wall.   This makes the reader more aware of this situation surrounding the Jews on the other side of the fence. This section is important because it reveals important history and thoughts of Shmeul, who’s an important character of this story.   It also reveals more information on the influence Hitler has on Bruno’s family. Another important scene in this section is when Pavel (a Jew) accidently spills a bottle...