BRUNO

I have just begun reading “The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas” by Johne Boyne. I am enjoying it so far because right of the start you want to know why Bruno and his family left Berlin. We know that it was because his father had to go there for work, but Bruno doesn’t know exactly what it is that his father does, and neither do the readers. When they get to the new house Bruno looks out his window and sees a BIG fence with spikes on it. There are huts in the fence and a lot of little boys and old boys and they are all wearing grey and blue stripped pajamas.

At the new house there are soldiers all over the place. These soldiers work for Bruno’s father.

I am starting to think that Bruno’s father is Hitler. If I’m wrong, he works for Hitler and that I am very sure about. The maid, Maria, says that the soldiers work for his father and even though they don’t say it in the book, they are living outside a concentration camp (I think that’s what they are called). I also think this because they are very rich and they lived in a big house with long banisters that you can slide down when they were in Berlin.

I am getting a little annoyed with Bruno just because he complains a lot but I really like this book. It’s only day one and I am already on chapter 7! I hope to read it more tonight because I can’t wait until Bruno finally gets to the fence that everyone hopes no one will ever come to again.