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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Wei The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a novel by Irish novelist John Boyne. The story happened in German in 1942, during the World War II. Bruno, a nine-year-old boy, and his family have to leave their home in Berlin and move to a far and strange place where there is no other children to play with him. He then takes an exploration near the fence and meets a little boy who is on the other side of the fence, Shmuel. They become good friends and Bruno decides to help Shmuel to find his father, while he never comes out from the camp. Different from other war novels, this novel indirectly reveals the coldness and mercilessness of the war through two innocent little boys’ talks, instead of describing the bloody and horrible scenes, evoking stronger feelings among readers and heartbreaking readers extremely. The innocence of children is in stark contrast with the cruelness and brutality of the war. When Bruno found the camp with the fence near their house, he simply regarded it as an ugly building. Hundreds of, even thousands of people in the same-look clothes, the striped clothes, lived in the camp and suffered great pains every day, but little Bruno did not know the truth and only felt happy when he found a lot of children were there. He told Shmuel he did not like striped clothes but in fact he liked it, of course he did not know what the clothes meant. He even felt unfair and admired Shmuel for Shmuel had a lot of friends to play with on the other side of the fence while he did not have. The war is so ridiculous and absurd in front of children’s innocent words, while children are poor and helpless in front of the war’s mercilessness. The war distorts people’s mind and makes adults’ world full of deception and lies. Maria, the family’s maid, told Bruno his father was a very good man. He offered Maria a job and took care of Maria’s mother when she was very sick even though he was not obliged to. However, all these