Bruno assumed that there were bullies all over the world, not just in schools in Berlin, and that one of them had done this to Shmuel. He felt an urge to help his friend but he couldn’t think of anything he could do to make it better, and he could tell that Shmuel wanted to pretend it had never happened.Every day Bruno asked Shmuel whether he would be allowed to crawl underneath the wire so that they could play together on the other side of the fence, but every day Shmuel said no, it wasn’t a good idea.‘I don’t know why you’re so anxious to come across here anyway,’ said Shmuel. ‘It’s not very nice.’‘You haven’t tried living in my house,’ said Bruno. ‘For one thing it doesn’t have five floors, only three. How can anyone live in so small a space as that?’ He’d forgotten Shmuel’s story about the eleven people all living in the same room together before they had come to Out-With, including the boy Luka who kept hitting him even when he did nothing wrong.One day Bruno asked why Shmuel and all the other people on that side of the fence wore the same striped pyjamas and cloth caps.‘That’s what they gave us when we got here,’ explained Shmuel.
What do You think about The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas?
