Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The Boy in Striped Pyjamas Prejudice & Bias

The Book The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas written by John Boyne shows incredible amount of evidence of Prejudice & Bias.Bruno was under the influence that Jews were all terrible and were to blame of all the corruptions happening to Germany.His father was a huge follower towards his allegiance with the Nazi's.

Bruno's Father had to explain to Bruno that the people in the camps weren't actually people at all, showed in this quote from the book P53 " Those People well, there not actually people at all" shows that his dad was teaching Bruno that he should consider the Jews as his enemy, which indicates signs of Prejudice as he had to listen to his fathers explanation which he didn't follow.


His Dad also represented, Bias, by following the Nazi way and being the commander of a concentration camp, risking Bruno's life. The tutor also represented this as he thought Bruno as well to hate and be resentful towards all Jews. Bruno ignored all of this when he met Shumel a young Jewish boy in the concentration camp.


As a result the whole family was influenced by the father to believe in the way of the Nazis,a few like Mother, Bruno & Maria had other opinions. Mother tried to persuade Father that what he was doing was wrong but he denied had had prejudice believes towards the Nazi's and this lead towards his sons death... I believe that Prejudice & Bias were played a lot into this depressing book.




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