Boy In The Striped Pajamas Bruno Death

After that bruno s family is seen devastated.

Boy in the striped pajamas bruno death. Ultimately bruno never gets the chance to outgrow his ignorance and innocence as his natural empathy and friendship for shmuel lead him to cross the fence and be killed in a gas chamber. Gretel sister grandma deceased bruno is the protagonist of the boy in the striped pajamas. Bruno is a nine year old boy from whose perspective the boy in the striped pajamas by john boyne is told. In the book it took a while before the family found out what had happened while in the film adaptation they found out even before he actually died.

Bruno is small for his age and is very sensitive to people like lieutenant kotler calling him little man. Bruno concocts a plan with shmuel to sneak into the camp to look for shmuel s father as shmuel says to bruno that his father has disappeared. When going to shmuel s camp everyone is ordered into the gas chambers where they are killed from a lethal dose of zyklon b. Shmuel brings a set of prison clothes which look to bruno like striped pyjamas and bruno leaves his own clothes outside the fence.

At the fence elsa and gretel hear ralf s cries and fall to their knees in despair. You can listen to the full song here. The film ends by showing the closed door of the now silent gas chamber indicating that all prisoners including bruno and shmuel are dead. Bruno and shmuel spend their last afternoon together inside the fence with bruno dressed in striped pajamas.

He has planned to help shmuel find shmuel s father when they are herded with a group into a gas chamber. In the boy in the striped pyjamas at the end bruno sneaks into the death camp to help shmuel find his father. Shmuel and bruno are gassed to death by the nazis. When ralf realises that gassing is taking place he cries out his son s name.

He is nine years old and coincidentally has the same birthday as his new jewish friend shmuel.