Book Review 6: The Boy in the striped pyjamas

 

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐲𝐣𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬 is an unusual story of the second world war. It is a 2006 Holocaust novel by 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐲𝐧𝐞 who is consisidered one of the sophisticated writers in his contemporary time. That it is based on a top sparking issue-World War II- was begun with a boy's desire and hope in fine, was ended up with a tragic history.

𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐨, the protagonist of the entire story lived at a beautiful home in 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧 and was the youngest member of his family, had three best friends there with whom he used to go to school and played along the days. 

𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥, the only daughter of his family was a bit disgusting and a hopeless case to him because of her misbehaviors and reckless attitude. Their father was a top-ranked military officer over whom was the Holocaust plan was incumbent.

One day, Bruno heared their family had to transfer to another place-even a different country- for his father's job. The news shocked him tremendously thereby, he couldn't but responded to it immediately to manage his father reconsidering his decision. But all his attempts was in vain. They might as well move to the new place named 𝐎𝐔𝐓-𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇, was mostly different from that one back in Berlin. Such differences caused new disappointments for the siblings. Initially, Bruno started to hate his father's decision as he had to left the beautiful five-story mansion home and some best friends in Berlin.

Over the times, he was likely to get used to his new home despite the things around him what he didn't like much. All at once, he saw something outside his window, something much unusual. The next afternoon, he set off walk to explore what he had seen the previous morning-a dot, a dot he might have seen. Walking step by step, closer and closer to the dot in the distance, which in the meantime had become a speck, and then began to show every sign of turning into a blob. And shortly after that the blob became a figure. And then, as Bruno got even closer, he saw that the thing was neither a dot nor a speck nor a blob nor a figure, but a person. The person is none other than 𝐒𝐡𝐦𝐮𝐞𝐥- another protagonist character of the novel with whom climax got the upper hand. Until the first conversation, Bruno didn't know that he and his new friend's birthdate and year are exactly the same. From that day, both the boys had been sharing almost every present incidents including that of back in the days to each other. It seemed the relation between two alike souls could never be apart. Nonetheless, one evening they were disappeared and found nowhere. 

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐱 of the plot was less wavering though, but much more eye catching. Albeit it delineates a teen mind, but it would be worth reading for the young adult.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 will be convenient to the readers with no doubt. The simplicity of word choice makes it almost perfect that allows its reader to sink into the plot.

It would be an amazing reading who is likely to prioritize war fiction over the other sorts.

Happy reading!!😊

𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝟒.𝟖/𝟓