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What happened in Chapter 7 of the boy in the striped pajamas?
By John Boyne Kotler calls Pavel (the Jewish potato peeler) and orders him to get a tire from the storage shed; Pavel drags the tire to the oak tree and helps Bruno set it up. Bruno swings too high and falls off, hitting his head and cutting his leg open.
What happened in chapter 12 of the boy in the striped pajamas?
Chapter 12 returns to Bruno and Shmuel’s conversation as Shmuel answers Bruno’s question about what the people in the striped pajamas were doing in the camp. Shmuel explained that he used to live with his parents and his brother Josef in an apartment above the store where his father mended and made watches.
What happened in chapter 11 of the boy in the striped pajamas?
Chapter 11. The Fury. Bruno recalls the night the Fury came to his house for dinner, how nervous his parents were and how he had to wear his best clothes. Bruno recalls meeting the Fury and his pretty companion, how the woman was much kinder than the Fury and made some nice comments to Bruno before dinner.
What is Shmuel’s birthday?
April fifteenth
When Bruno asked Shmuel how old he was, he said he was nine and that his birthday was April fifteenth.
How did Shmuel get to out with?
Shmuel is a nine-year-old Jewish boy who has been imprisoned in Out-With (Auschwitz) Camp along with his grandfather, father, and brother. Not long after, soldiers forced Jewish families like Shmuel’s into ghettoes, where they lived in extremely cramped quarters until being shipped by train to Out-With.
Was Bruno’s mother happy to leave Berlin?
Bruno’s mother is upset and sad about leaving the house in Berlin. Bruno realizes that she has a “strange laugh” and doesn’t “look happy” when talking about the move. While explaining to Bruno that they have no choice but leave, “Mother sighed and looked around the room as if she might never see it again” (5).
What flashback was in Chapter 11 of boy in the striped pajamas?
The Fury Flashback
The Fury. Flashback to a few months earlier: Bruno’s father has a new uniform and title (Commandant) and announces that the Fury and his girlfriend are coming to dinner. Panic and mayhem ensue, but all is ready for Hitler in the nick of time.
Why do you think Chapter eleven titled The fury was inserted into the middle of the story?
Why do you think Chapter 11 titled the Fury is inserted into the middle of the story? Why didnt the author start the story with this chapter? The author wanted the reader to know how bad their new home was that the Fury sent them too. He Heard how she thought it was a terrible place.
Who is Bruno’s grandmother in the boy in the striped?
Nathalie, Bruno ’s grandmother and Father ’s mother, was a singer in her youth, before she married Grandfather. She is very dramatic, and still loves to sing. Each Christmas, she devises a play for herself and the children, to be performed at their holiday party.
Why was Bruno sent to his room in the boy in the Striped Pajamas?
Bruno then asks if he looks handsome in his ringmaster’s costume, but that only alerts the adults that the children are still present, and he and Gretel are sent to their rooms. Grandmother, who is clearly not a defender of the Nazi party, is vocal about her distaste for Father’s new job.
Who was the grandmother in the boy in the Striped Pajamas?
Grandmother was a kind of matriarch in Bruno’s family, and apparently very different from her strict, forbidding son. Instead of dismissing Bruno and Gretel as merely children who should be seen and not heard, Grandmother sought to engage with her grandchildren.
Why is father so remorseful in the boy in the Striped Pajamas?
Father is particularly remorseful because he and Grandmother had fought before she died and never made it up. Although he is very proud that one of the wreaths sent in her honor is from the Fury himself, Mother says that “Grandmother would turn in her grave if she knew it was there.”