Humanities

Tendency to hide and lie about their actions

Conventions and Techniques

Plot

• Bruno is lied to and Shmuel gets gased
• Cover-up
• Parelo
• Shame

The Boy in the Striped PJs

Three Sides of Humanity

Conventions and Techniques

Characterisation

Bruno and Kotler

• Bruno - P.O.V.
• get inside his head
• see he is compassionate and caring
• sees people as equal
• niaive

Parel and Grandma

• shown in a positive light
• speak their minds
• protective
• caring

Highlights

Wrongness of it all

Conventions and Techniques

Point of View and Characterisation

• Bruno's niaive point

        `Why can he do that?'

• Shmuel and Parelo - nice

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 Genre

• Novel
• John Boyne
• 2007
• German family move
• Aushwitz
• Friendship
• 2 boys
• Tragic ending
• Gased

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-r5D6XKzAY

• Humanity - tendency to hide and lie about their actions
• Abuse of power
• Film + 3 sides of humans
• Highlights - wrongness of it

Abuse of Power

Conventions and Techniques

Characterisation

Kotter

• `They smell worse when they burn don't they?'
• Beating of Shmuel, Parelo (actions)
• Fear of Shmuel and Kotter
• Commandant
• `All those people Bruno, they're not people at all'

Jewish people - portrayed as caring, nice people (Parel helped Bruno)

Links Across Texts

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• Shouldn't hide the truth (The Truman Show)
• Lie to protect certain people (The Truman Show/Mississippi Burning)
• Abusive power (Mississippi Burning)

        equality

        racism