The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

This book is awful. *****Spoiler Alert***** Firstly lets start with the plot holes: - Bruno is a boy who grew up in Germany during Hitlers reign and went to a public school (Which was required to have a picture of Hitler on the wall) and thus should have known when Hitler came to his house who he was. - Secondly Bruno pronounce Auschwitz as Out-With which is all cute until you put out with into translate and find he has been calling Auschwitz Raus Mit - Thirdly (Getting into the deep stuff now) Bruno cannot see any buildings at all when he gets to Shmuel meaning (Due to the curvature of the world) He is 5 kilometers away from them, Auschwitz was 4*8 kilometers meaning that he should be able to see the end of the fence from the house and especially from where Shmuel is and if he can't half of Auschwitz is being used for one child. - Fourthly, Bruno climbs through a small hole of an electric fence, a double layered electric fence, in the rain. He did not do that without A) Him being shocked B) Him being caught in between the layers. Now on to the authors writing style: John Boyne wrote this book in two days, and it shows. The book is terribly written. Sorry no room.

Perfectly detailed and formated in a child's perspective. Delivered to us with great emotion and information of the experiences of Jews during the war. Sad ending with a great built up. An astonishing read! One for all ages.

A brilliant tale written from a 9year old perspective that achieves the rare task of being so simple yet deep that it appeals to the forgotten truths.and.9 years old inside all of us.