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So, lately this term, my class’ literacy was focused around Boy In Striped Pyjamas. For this blog today, I am going to write down the relation ship changes in the story. The first relationship that changes is Bruno and Gretel’s relationship. They started out with a bad relationship as from Bruno’s perspective, Gretel was a ‘Hopeless case’. But their relationship changed further through the story. Gretel’s attitude towards Bruno changed as she had no friends to talk to. Then, her attitude changed drastically because her crush, Lieutenant Kotler was gone. Meaning that she became more “friendly” towards Bruno.
Another relationship change was Bruno and the house maid Maria. Their relationship changed during the first chapter when Maria was packing Bruno’s stuff. Bruno (sounding arrogant towards Maria in the first chapter of the book) actually talked to her, wanting info of what’s happening. Then, later in the story, Bruno’s relationship towards Maria probably changed. But I’m not sure as Maria is not really in the later chapters.
Then in the later in the story, Bruno’s relationship with his old friends in Berlin changed because he forgot the names of his friends. This means that he doesn’t really care about them anymore because he has his friend, Shmuel. So, his friends back in Berlin is just a distant memory to him as he hasn’t interacted with them for months which is probably the reason why he forgot their names.
Speaking about Shmuel; Shmuel is Bruno’s new and only best friend in “Out-with”. He is the first person to talk to Bruno when he went out on an ‘adventure’ around “Out-with”. They became friends because they found out they were born on the same date, so that’s the reason why Shmuel is friends with Bruno. Bruno focused more on Shmuel, giving him food when Shmuel was hungry. This meant Bruno considered Shmuel as a good friend.
Other relationship changes is with Lieutenant Kotler and Bruno’s mother. During the chapters of 14-17, Lieutenant Kotler was considered the man of the house whenever Bruno’s father wasn’t there. So during those chapters, Lieutenant Kotler was secretly having an affair with Bruno’s mother. Which the father of Bruno found out and another relationship change happened between Bruno’s mother and father.
Anyways, these are the relationship changes that happened in the book. When my class started reading the book, I wasn’t really interested in it as I just thought it’ll just be some story about a kid in striped pyjamas. Getting further into the book, the story started getting more interesting and my first thought about the book vanished completely as it progressed. But still, this book was really good if you want to read something about the second world war. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed reading through this Blog.