The boy in the striped pyjamas

Monday, March 04, 2013

The book "The boy in the striped pyjamas" written by the irish novelist John Boyne is situated during the World War II, when the jews where persecuted by Hitler and send to concentration camps. Three words that could describe the theme of the book would be discrimination, religion and open-minded. Discrimination is when there's an unjust act or prejudicial treatment towards a certain category of people, it could be because of their race, age, sex, or their likes and dislikes. An example related to the book would be when the jews people are being discriminated due to their religion, and are taken by Hitler into concentration camps to be torture and finally killed. Religion is believing on a superior power and being truly devoted to it. Since I'm a catholic I belief in God, but there also other religions like the buddhism, judaism, or hinduism. Religion can be seen in Boyne's novel because people are being judge and killed due to their religion, in this case jews. Finally, open-minded means to be open and willing to new ideas, cultures or customs, so being unprejudiced. Being open-minded would've change everything, since the jews wouldn't be judge because of their religion and there wouldn't be a persecution and many innocent deaths.I choose this words, because I feel there all related to the novel. If people of World War II would've been more open-minded into different races or religions, then there wouldn't be any discrimination due to being jews.