Thursday, March 4, 2010

Does The Boy in the Striped Pajamas deal with the sensitive subject of the holocaust in an appropriate way?

Yes, I think that this historical fiction novel by John Boyne does deal with the sensitive subject matter of the holocaust appropriately, because he didn't write how gross the soldier and how bad the camp was and what was a holocaust.

John Boyne gave the readers some clues about holocaust but he didn't tell the readers about the exact meaning of Haolocaust. I think the part where John Boyne didn't describe the camp was appropriate because if he did, it would affect the children's mind about Germany. Some part where he described Shmuel experiencing the Holocaust was not a good idea. Instead of writing Shmuel experiencing the Holocaust, he could have written in other ways.

He also made the readers thinking when he was describing the fence that was between the house and the camp. He made the readers left thinking what was on the other side of the camp. It made the readers curious and make them read more.

In conclusion, I think human evil really effects the other people. Like Holocaust. Holocaust is a dangerous thing which was caused by human evil. Once, human evil starts, I think it's rarely impossible to stop. I also think human evil is still going on somewhere around the world and we should stop it before it happens. Overall, I learnt that human evil impact is huge and dangerous.

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