...the cultural, values and norms of a society that is different from your own culture. The movie chosen is the Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is based on a fictional book by John Boyne. Introduction Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity (Pinstonedu.com, n.d.). Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences (IMDb, n.d.). This movie really nails ethnocentrism on the head. By segregating the Jews in concentration camps with the fence that divides worlds of realism. On one side of the fence you have the privileged which are served the best wine, the best meals, a comfortable place to sleep, and life is good. On the other side of the fence, the worst in human brutality is obvious. They hardly have any food to eat; they have the worst sleeping conditions and they’re treated like nothing (Jews aren’t even humans to the Nazis). Jews were segregated because...
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...someone to share your problems with. In “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” by John Boyne, Bruno, the main character is in need of a good friend. He is unhappy, having been forced to move away from his home in Berlin and ‘his three best friends for life’ because his father has a new job. Bruno, his mother and sister accompany the new commandant to the new house at “Out-With,” as Bruno calls it. This new house is small, dark, and strange. Bruno spends long days gazing out the window of his new bedroom, where he notices people dressed in striped pyjamas and rows of barracks surrounded by a barbed wire fence. With nobody except his sister ‘The Hopeless Case’ to talk to, bored and lonely, and not really understanding the circumstance of his new existence, Bruno sets out to explore the area, despite being forbidden to do so by his parents. He discovers Shmuel, a very thin Jewish boy who lives on the other side of the fence and an unlikely friendship between the two boys is formed. Over the next few months the two children swap life stories through the wire fence. Shmuel explains how he and his family have been transported here from a ghetto in Poland. Unable to comprehend the gravity of Shmuel’s situation, Bruno is simply content to have found a playmate. In particular he finds it amazing that they are the same age and born on exactly the same day. In return for Shmuel’s tales of implicit horror, Bruno...
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...the cultural, values and norms of a society that is different from your own culture. The movie chosen is the Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is based on a fictional book by John Boyne. Introduction Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity (Pinstonedu.com, n.d.). Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences (IMDb, n.d.). This movie really nails ethnocentrism on the head. By segregating the Jews in concentration camps with the fence that divides worlds of realism. On one side of the fence you have the privileged which are served the best wine, the best meals, a comfortable place to sleep, and life is good. On the other side of the fence, the worst in human brutality is obvious. They hardly have any food to eat; they have the worst sleeping conditions and they’re treated like nothing (Jews aren’t even humans to the Nazis). Jews were segregated because...
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...Boyne “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”. Bruno an innocent boy who doesn't really know what is happening around him who becomes friend with boy named Shmuel who is a prisoner at a concentration camp. This book is about an innocent boy whose innocence makes him confused of what really is happening during his time and he finds himself a friend who is a prisoner at a concentration camp and they create a strong bond with each other but that bond would end in tragedy. The Nazi Party the main reason why Germany went from an emerging democracy to a dictatorship that would commit a genocide to the jewish race which Bruno a young innocent boy that was seeing what was occurring but he never thought anything bad he thought everything that was going around him was normal. In the book there is many scenes in which Bruno always talks about Germany and how great it is but when he sees the striped pajama people ( Jews) he doesn't think of them as bad people...
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...responses. Chapters 1-2 1. Why doesn’t Bruno understand the nature of his father’s job? Nobody ever explains his father’s job; they just say it is important and that the “Fury” has big things in mind for him (5). 2. How does Bruno’s mother feel about leaving the house in Berlin? Bruno’s mother is upset and sad about leaving the house in Berlin. Bruno realizes that she has a “strange laugh” and doesn’t “look happy” when talking about the move. While explaining to Bruno that they have no choice but leave, “Mother sighed and looked around the room as if she might never see it again” (5). Additionally, she tells Bruno, “We don’t have as much time to prepare as I would have liked, thanks to some people” (8), which Bruno recognizes as a reference to his father. 3. How does Bruno feel about his sister? Bruno thinks Gretel is a “hopeless Case” and would not care if she stayed behind in Berlin (10) 4. Why is Bruno reluctant to leave Berlin? Bruno does not want to leave Berlin because he loves his large, comfortable house, which is close to his grandparents and accessible to his three good friends. 5. How does Bruno react to his new house? Bruno does not like his new house. He thinks it is desolate and small and set in a place where there are no other houses. He also is sad there are no friends nearby (11). Bruno tells Maria, “I think this was a bad idea” (13) in reference to the move. 6. How do Bruno and Maria react to the young soldier in the hall? Bruno takes an instant dislike to the young...
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...the major theme is the desire for friendship. Bruno and Shmuel, two small lonely little boys are the protagonists in this particular story. Without their friendship, the reader would fail to grasp the real meaning to the novel. In other words, the acceptance of our differences and beliefs and to treat others the way we would like to be treated. The beauty of Bruno and Shmuel’s glorious friendship is shown in their loyalty to one another. Their dependence towards each other was far greater than the fence that lied between them. An example of Bruno and Shmuel’s dedication to their friendship would be the sheer fact that Bruno would lie to his family continuously in order to meet Shmuel. While Shmuel would risk a brutal beating or death just...
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...reality showing posters and propaganda displaying her involvement with the Hitler Youth Movement. Then she became interested in young soldiers all these began taking place and she’s only 12. Besides that one of the main events to set this idea was moving houses, going from a carefree and playful environment into a serious problem. In your childhood you need things to do. You need fun. You need friends and because of moving Bruno was sucked away from all that restricted only his family, soldiers and the front yard. He had some interaction with Pavel the family’s servant but to even more damage his innocence he was exposed to violence when Pavel accidentally spills the wine onto Kolter and then is dragged out and thrashed. That would have done some damage but if you think about it… Bruno being young might now be convinced he would get a beating if he made a ‘slip-up’ like that. That it’s such a bad thing to make a mistake. But then besides the madness taking place around him he did find a friend, Shmuel which leads me into the importance of friendship. Bruno met Shmuel by accident? Well not necessarily by accident but it was just random as...
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...Bruno is a 9 year old boy growing up during World War II in Berlin, Germany.[3] He lives in a huge house with his loving parents, his twelve-year-old sister Gretel (whom he refers to as a Hopeless Case), and maidservants. His father is a high-ranking SS officer who, after a visit from Adolf Hitler (referred to in the novel as "The Fury", Bruno's misrecognition of the word "Führer") and Eva Braun, is promoted to Commandant, and to Bruno's dismay, the family has to move away to a place called "Out-With" (in reality the Auschwitz Concentration Camp) Bruno finds out he is not allowed to explore the back of the house or its surroundings. Out of boredom and curiosity, he decides to explore anyway. Whilst poking about he spots a boy on the other side of the fence. Excited that there might be a boy his age, Bruno introduces himself and finds out the Jewish boy's name is Shmuel. Shmuel and his family were brought here, separated from each other and forced to work. Almost every day, the two boys meet at the same spot. Soon, due to their remarkable similarities they become best friends. Despite their differences of circumstance, they are able to understand one another on a deeper level. This empathy fundamentally calls into question the difference between an 'undesirable' Polish Jew and a German. Over the course of the book, Bruno shows a great deal of naïvete, whilst Shmuel seems to have more knowledge, as he has had first-hand exposure to the suffering in the death camp. Bruno's...
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...“The boy in the striped pyjamas” by John Boyne is a book about a nine year old boy called Bruno who is growing up in Berlin during World War II. He lives a very comfortable life in a large house with his parents and his sister, not forgetting the maid and the cook. But this all changes very soon when his father who is a very high-ranking soldier is promoted to “Commandant” and to Bruno’s sadness the family have to move to a place which Bruno refers to as out-with. Bruno immediately becomes very homesick for many reasons. He misses his grandparents, his house, his three best friends for life and of course his adventures. Bruno is a very curious boy and while looking out of his window one day he noticed that there were other people, lots of people. It isn’t long before Bruno decides to ask his father about these people but his father tells him that they are not people at all. It turns out that it is the extermination camp Auschwitz and due to Bruno’s curiosity and boredom he decides to explore and it is here at the fence that he meets and befriends a young boy called Shmuel. Almost every day he meets Shmuel and they talk by the fence both on separate sides but they are both desperate to play with each other and conveniently Shmuel’s father goes missing and he needs Bruno’s help to find him. They make a gap in the fence just big enough for a small boy to fit through and Bruno goes into the camp with a pair of striped pyjamas and it is then that something unimaginable happens. In...
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