The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a story that goes beyond race and religion. The War Times are something most people don’t like to discuss or even think about, so many lives lost, are for what? But it’s something we need to know actually happened in reality and we should never forget the tragedies. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a very emotional story, and immediately after you start reading the book you get drawn into Bruno's perspective on what happened in Germany during World War II.
It’s vital to protect every child’s innocence, as they develop and learn what we teach them. The soldiers weren’t born with cruelty nor disrespect for human life, they were taught wrongness. These days some people still judge others on their colour of skin, if they have a disability or not, and their religions, instead of learning and accepting that everyone is entitled to equal treatment. The more time that passes after that horrifying event occurred, it becomes easier to put behind the disasters and forget why we need to value respect so much.
According to Hitler being ‘perfect’ in appearance features mattered more than people’s lives and individuality. Not learning about the Holocaust could cause it to happen all over again because we usually don’t think our actions and what we say through completely. What happened at those death camps is very disturbing but the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas novel didn’t focus on that, instead it was the suffering, the conditions and how the Nazi’s treated people that really made me feel sick and incredibly sorry for them.
We should all wonder why what happened during the Holocaust has not changed many humans’ thoughts and opinions on others. We shouldn’t have any discrimination and insolence for human life in us at all anymore. Don’t we study history to not make the same faults we’ve made in the past? Some people believe that they have a good reason for their racism and hatred. The Nazi’s were racists and they killed out the Jews with no reasonable cause besides the fact that they thought they were not human because of their beliefs. Everyone has the right to have freedom and believe what they want.
