Saturday, September 3, 2011

Chapter 12

(126) How would you compare Shmuel's voice to Bruno's? Shmuel's voice knows a lot more as he has been told what is happing while Bruno doesn't really know what is going on around him.

(128-130) How would you describe the way that Bruno acts and reacts to Shmuel tell his story about coming to the camp? He is jealous this is showing irony as he lives the best life a that a young boy could live but he wants to be like Shmuel and have lots of friends and finds himself wanting to be o the other side of the fence.

(131) When Bruno and Shmuel talk about chocolate how is Bruno portrayed? Bruno is portrayed as a spoilt boy that has everything that he needs and more while Shmuel has a much harder life in fitting in.

(132) Do you think that Bruno understands the situation that Shmuel is in? No Bruno has no idea what Shmuel's situation is in and just thinks that he lives in a town with lots of people and many friends in funny clothes while he has no one but Shmuel to talk to.

(133) What is ironic about Bruno thinking 'the last think he wanted to do was be unkind to Shmuel'? yes this is ironic as he is a German and that his people are being very mean and killing and torturing Jews like Shmuel everyday for no reason but Bruno just wants to have friends and Shmuel is doing that.

(133) What is ironic about the statement - 'Bruno was of the opinion that when it came to parents, and especially when it came to sisters, what they didn't know couldn't hurt them.'?  that this is exactly what they are doing to them by not telling them what is really happing in the world and keeping him from knowing the true story of what they are doing to the Jews.

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