This novel is one of my 13yo daughter's set readings in her Year 8 English studies. She asked me to read it so as I could assist her in her forthcoming essays surrounding the book.
The story moves quickly and has many of the excesses and brutalities of the Holocaust either removed or simply not mentioned, and is strewn with factual inaccuracy. But while many other reviewers look upon these omissions and inaccuracies as detracting to the novel, remember this - the novel wasn't written for adults. I tried to look at the book through my daughter's eyes as I became engrossed on the story of young Bruno and his move from his lavish lifestyle in Berlin to a strange new place in the far flung reaches that he couldn't quite understand, the people he meets, both on his side of the fence and that of his new friend, Schmuel, and the shock ending that author Boyne places before us.
The novel provokes many questions, as indeed I think it is meant to - all up an excellent choice in a curriculum at that year level.Get more detail about The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
No comments:
Post a Comment