How Power Can Torment Innocence The Holocaust a time in which an innocent race of people were tormented by a group of powerful brainwashed men. John 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 …show more content…
The day he starts exploring again and goes to camp and finds a boy named Shmuel who later becomes his best friend for life and they starts talking to him. They start talking and they talk about each other and when Shmuel says how there's so many kids named Shmuel Bruno says, “ It's so unfair,” “ I don’t see why I have to be on this side of the fence where there's no one to talk to and no one to play and you get to have dozens of friends and are probably playing for hours every day. “ (Boyne 111). But Bruno doesn't really know what they really do there because of how naive he is of not knowing what happens around him but Shmuel doesn’t bother telling him the reason why they are there and what they all really