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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

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Compare Bruno and Shmuel, analyzing three examples from the novel.

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Explore to what effect John Boyne uses a child’s perspective throughout the novel. How does this perspective lend itself to the themes he wishes to convey?

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List and analyze some of the things you have learned about World War II and the Holocaust through this novel.

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