Summary Of Quotes From Night By Elie Wiesel

The second struggle in Bruno 's and Shmuel’s friendship is their need to overcome their differences in the family background. One day, Bruno decided to talk about how they came to be in Auschwitz. When Shmuel starts talking about how he got here.He said that, “The train was horrible," said Shmuel. There were too many of us in the carriages for one thing. And there was no air to breathe.” “That 's because you all crowded onto one train,”said Bruno.... “When we came here, there was another one on the other side of the platform, but no one seemed to see it. That was the one we got.” (129-130). When Bruno talks about

The author is able to build a mood throughout the story by using the narrative technique of tone. It changes from the beginning to the end of the story. In the beginning of the story, Bruno is sad and angry that he is leaving behind his three best friends. He is arguing with his mom about it. “Say goodbye to Karl and Daniel and Martin? He continued, his voice coming dangerously close to shouting.” (pg. 7) This demonstrates how mad and angry Bruno is about moving. By the tone that Bruno is using when talking to his mother, it shows that he doesn’t want to leave them behind. This builds a mood for the story and makes the reader feel sorry for Bruno. In the middle of the story, after Bruno and Shmuel have become great friends, Bruno finds Shmuel inside his house polishing the glasses. Shmuel

Friendship is a basic human need, especially for nine year old boys living their childhood. For Bruno who is lonely, bored out of his mind and could not find friends his age to play with and Shmuel a Jewish boy entrapped in a brutal concentration camp, their friendship is one of the only things that can spark a little happiness and lighten up their spirit. The boys meet in the least possible place – the periphery of Auschwitz concentration camp, where one is imprisoned and the other is the son of the Nazi commandant in charge. Although they are meant to see each other as enemies as a Jew and Nazi, there is no hatred between Bruno and Shmuel. They simply see each other as another kid to talk to out of the loneliness of Auschwitz. As the book

Bruno is an 8 year old boy, whose determination and courage is one of the numerous things that makes him one of the most dependable charters within the novel. Bruno is shown to be particularly vulnerable of his surroundings and what was going on throughout this time. His connection and willpower to be able to make a friend in the most unlikely area and conditions, he sees an opportunity and turns it into an improbable and prohibited friendship that has many twists and turns and uncontrolled concecuences. After meeting Shmuel a young 8 year old boy, who appears to have a matching birthday to Bruno, they form a tight and loving friendship. Shmuel is undernourished and appears to be extremely pale, bringing the readers to understand the vulnerability of the

Bruno was the son of a Nazi commandant, but he had no idea of the horrors of the Holocaust. He was told not to go near the death camp his father was in charge of, but he did anyway. Bruno meet a Jewish boy named Shmuel at the camp and continued to visit him. They enjoyed each other’s company even though there was a fence in between them. One day Shmuel told Bruno that his dad went missing. Neither of the boys knew that he was actually murdered. They came up with a plan to sneak Bruno into the camp to help Shmuel find his dad. After Bruno gets into the camp they begin to search when alarms go off. The boys and other Jewish men get pushed into a room and ordered to take their clothes off. No one knows what’s going on. They are ordered into another room where they are gassed and die. Because of hate and intolerance against Jews, Shmuel was blocked off from the rest of the world and his friend. Bruno fought against that hate and intolerance by sneaking into a place where no one should be, to help a

During the movie, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, many scenes displayed Bruno’s helplessness and inability to help neither the Jews, nor himself in the end. For instance, Lieutenant Kurt revealed to Bruno’s mother about the concentration camps without the knowledge of Bruno’s father. This enraged him so he sought for his revenge by putting Lieutenant Kurt on the spot with the topic of his father, who was said to have left the country in opposition to the German ways. Lieutenant Kurt then released all his anger and frustration on Pavel, a kind Jew who tended to Bruno’s injury after falling off his swing in the beginning of the movie, right in front of Bruno’s eyes. Later, the clueless Bruno found out that he was beaten to death when his sister said that Pavel will never be coming back. Then, there was another scene where Shmuel, Bruno’s new Jewish friend who was also eight years old, was temporarily called out from the concentration camp because they Germans needed a pair of small hands to dry and polish all the glassware at Bruno’s house. Knowing how Shmuel is always hungry, Bruno gave him a few cookies. Right after, Lieutenant Kurt came into the room and found Shmuel eating so he automatically assumed that he stole

While still searching for Shmuel father for hours, Bruno was losing his patience in the rain and was ready to go back home. Consequently, it was too late the door had slammed and locked in the room it became very dark and chaotic as the boys holding hands tightly telling each other they best friend for life. Before leaving the soldiers was looking for Bruno but he was nowhere to be found , so they returned back to the place where her son clothes been and noticed the opening in the fence .That’s when they realized what was must have happened , which lead to a tragic ending in the finals scene.

Bruno likes going to meet Shmuel as much as he can and also loves bringing him food, talking and asking questions about his unfortunate situation and his seclusion behind a fence. Although Bruno does often say some silly and selfish things, Shmuel manages to contain himself out of respect. One example is when Bruno asks him why he wears pyjamas all day and Shmuel replies that are the soldiers that they took all their clothes away. Bruno then says: “My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away.” This sort of dialogue shows how naïve, ignorant and unaware were the young people like Bruno about the political situation of their time and about the segregation of Jewish people and their extermination and

Unlike Shmuel, Bruno was not to familiar with how they do things on the other side of the fence. But Bruno’s intentions were to be a good friend and help find his friends father. So shmuel grabs and extra pair of uniforms and gives Bruno them to change in to. Bruno changes his clothes and leaves them right below the fence and Shmuel lets him under the fence. They look and look for the father but get overheard by the soldiers and get thrown into a “Gas Chamber.” (used to burn jews to death) They were demanded to strip their clothes. Little did they both know they were walking into their deaths. This book is very great in describing Hitler. There's a sadden ending only to really show the truth about one of our worst history memory. At the very end Bruno’s parents find out what happened and our very devastated. There is also a movie made similar to the

In the concentration camps he was dichotomized and not considered a human,but instead as an animal. Bruno is spoiled and hence is susceptible to be damaged by superficial problems,and is deterred away from the truth. On the other hand,Shmuel is not spoiled. These are the principally the distinction between Bruno and Shmuel that I am trying to establish. In brief,Bruno and Shmuel are different in their perception of events,as Bruno is spoiled while Shmuel is

Once Bruno is on the same side of the fence as Shmuel they both have an urge to hug each other. This is a natural response as it almost feels as if the boys are being reunited, even though only a fence separated them before. These boys have been friends for a while and confided their secrets to each other, they were all they had to look forward to and I believe this is why they get emotional. They do not go through with the hug and that may be because they feel it is childish. Bruno and Shmuel never had a normal friendship as most friends play and hang out together. Their relationship was almost like having a pen pal. Since they both met in a dark and lonely part of their life, one can assume that their friendship held an utmost value.

"His new friend was sitting cross-legged on the ground waiting for him." This interpretes Shmuel's eagerness to see Bruno at a daily basis and the conversation they make and the situations they experience are quite similar. For example when Shmuel's mother saying that they could not "live in ... [their] any more." This has a similar connection towards what Bruno's Mother said to Bruno, "are we all being sent away?" , "no we all are", and relates to the idea of Bruno stating "we are like twins." Another example of Bruno's similarity with Shmuel is the armband that Shmuel wears and the armband Bruno's father where. For a nine-year-old boy, Bruno does not know the difference between the two armbands and believes that they are "all the same." The conversation between Bruno and Shmuel bring them together and allow them to discover the similarities they have between

Bruno want to discover the other side in the fence looked like, and also spent the time with Shmuel, however, he didn’t know that because of his curiosity, he would be in danger. When they followed people into the gas chamber, Bruno and Shmuel didn’t know they were facing the death, Bruno just told Shmuel about how he attached great importance to this friendship. “You’re my best friend, Shmuel, my best friend for life” (213). Because of the innocence and pure thought, they had the

Friendships aren’t intended to be for personal benefit, but to care for another person and be someone that they can trust. At the start of the relationship between Bruno and Shmuel, there’s slight competition regarding whose situation is more grueling. Because Bruno pities himself for having to move from Berlin, he is incapable of comprehending, much less sympathizing for, the dismal words his new friend tells him. It isn’t until he, “said (it) out loud to himself (that) he felt terrible that he hadn’t tried to say anything to cheer Shmuel up…” (Boyne, 158).

Shmuel, went from being lonely and sad, to be more cheerful after meeting Bruno. Bruno gave him support, food and friendship things that he didn’t have inside the camp. One day, they planned to go and find Shmuel’s dad inside the camp and marched together with other people not knowing that they were marching to their death.