The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Lesson Plan

John Boyne’s best-selling and award-winning novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is the story of Bruno, a nine-year-old boy in Nazi Germany whose father has been put in charge of running Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi concentration camp. Bruno secretly befriends a boy his own age, who lives on the other side of the fence where Jews are imprisoned in the death camp. Bruno is observant but naïve in the extreme and has only the dimmest understanding of the situation and place in which he finds himself. However, Bruno’s innocence enables him to see certain elements of truth more clearly than many of the adults around him.

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