This book & movie was about an 8-year-old boy named Bruno. He is the son of a high-ranking Nazi Commandant, but doesn’t exactly know what his father does. In the book and movie Bruno has many friends that he plays with everyday, which he calls “friends-for-life.” Bruno has to end up moving away from his great home, and great friends to some weird house for his fathers work. In the book they call the “home”, Out-With. The author is very descriptive about the house being worse than the old one, but in retrospect Bruno is just pretty spoiled, so he is sad when he gets a 3-story house compared to his 5-story house back in Berlin. This isn’t really described in the movie, but it is shown a little bit. Bruno is a very spoiled “little-man” (which I will get to later about little-man). He thinks things are bad sometimes like how his sister hits him but that is not the worst thing compared to what is happening in the camp right next to his house. Little-man refers to what Bruno’s Dad’s Lieutenant calls him. Bruno does not like it all in the book, but he doesn’t really seem to care much in the movie.
I think the scenes are very different in the movie because you cannot read or hear what Bruno is thinking at that time so you have to assume. In that case the director had to make the movie very obvious. In the book it was different settings because they had a party after they moved to Out-With instead of before, like in the movie. Also when they get there, Maria, the houses maid is proven way less shy in the movie than in the book. In the book she seems like she is kind of forced to not talk much. When Bruno goes into the house, he is curious to see outside, there is a compound with many people wearing pajamas in it, or pyjamas in the book. Bruno doesn’t really know who they are, in the book. He just thinks it is odd. Bruno thinks that the people are farmers that are working there though, in the movie. As the book goes on, he soon find out, they aren’t just farmers, but he is still pretty clueless about them. Bruno gets really bored without new friends and makes a swing set, that he uses everyday. He falls off, and the waiter (Who is really a Jew that is serving them), Pavel cleans him up. Bruno gets bored soon and wants to explore. He goes along the fence and after a while soon finds a boy named Shmuel, they talk a bit, and then Bruno sets off back home. In the book they talk a lot more, and tell a lot of stories, but in the movie they only talk a little bit. There is also a big difference in the movie from the book. Dad and Mom are harsher with arguing than in book. They do argue like in book though. Lieutenant Kurt told her about burning the Jews at the camp in the movie, but not in book. It was put in the book as something like to understand on the side. It never said anything about it, but it made it like it was happening. In the book, it seemed like she already knew about it. It wasn’t a big deal. The movie is another story. She was torn about it. It basically ruined her. It made her relationship go bad with Bruno’s dad. Bruno goes to Shmuel a lot and Shmuel’s father dies. They decide for Bruno to go on the other side of the gate and look for him. The next day they do, but don’t find him. In the book it differs because Shmuel says that they send people on marches, but it’s not easy to tell what the marches are. In the movie they are more straightforward for comprehension and basically show what the marches are. Shmuel and Bruno are led into a room. The lights turn off, and essentially . . . Bruno and Shmuel die. They were burned like many other Jews. In the movie Bruno’s dad knows. He knows how Bruno did die, but in the book, his dad only suspected it. He only made theories, but never actually knew.

The book and the movie are very alike, unlike in some instances. It seems at some parts that the book is almost like the script for the movie. Half of the movie for The Boy In Striped Pajamas has exact quotes from the book, but the movie is not the same. The book is a lot better. It goes into detail, and also shows what Bruno is thinking. It helps you understand more, and actually connect and have feeling toward what is going on.