The Affect On Innocent People

Author’s Note: In this piece will explain what the theme of the book I’ve recently read and how it affects the characters. And I’ll also be explaining how this theme reminds me of another book.

Everybody has that one memory from their childhood that they will never forget. Either it was a good memory or a bad one it will always stay with them. Well for Bruno, from the book The Boy In The  Striped Pajamas, By, John Boyce, he never had the best childhood he would of wanted. Bruno was a 9 year old kid that went through a lot during his time. He had father that told him that his friend was pretty much meant nothing to them. Throughout the book the main theme that is being told is the affect on innocent people.

Bruno was only 9 years old when he moved to his new house, which we was very upset about. As the moment he stepped into the house he already hated it. He was very upset that he had to leave his friends and everyone behind him at his old house in Berlin. But, as a couple months went by meet a kid around his age named Shmuel, but he meet him he was on the other side of him, Shmuel  was on the other side of the fence. They would meet up every day and talk to each other and they really go to know one another.

For a while now Bruno was meeting up with Shmuel without his parents knowing. He was too afraid of what his parents might do or say to him if he told him that he was meeting a kid that lived on the other side of the fence. Bruno was always curious on why there was a fence between them, he wanted to play with Shmuel l and hang out with him. As Bruno as more curious he decided to ask his dad why there was a fence between us and the other people. And without even thinking his father  said “ Well there not people at all” As his father said this broke Bruno’s heart, this affected him a lot because he wondered what his father meant by that. And all he could think about was how his father just said that his friend is not even a person and he is the only reason why he likes it here.

The theme in this book reminds me to the theme in the book The Child Called it, by, Dave Pelzer , because in the book there is a young boy named Dave that wouldn’t do anything wrong or bad , but his mother would beat him up all the time. He was just an innocent little boy that would get hurt without really knowing what he did wrong and this affected him a lot because he just didn’t know how to act in front of his own mother anymore. Just how Bruno father judge the people on the other side of the fence without even getting to know them who they really are. Both of the mom and dad in the book would affect the innocent  people.

There are people still out there that judge people with even knowing them. But, there are also some people that even say it to their faces but people deal with their pain differently and it happened to everyone not just a certain group of people. The book The Boy in the Striped Pajama shows a good theme on how the affect on innocent people can really mean something.