Chapter 8

In this chapter we get to know more about Bruno’s family, in this case his Grandmother and Grandfather; he mentions how much he misses them. But there was actually a conflict that Bruno wasn’t aware of, because of his young age and ignorance about what was happening in the world, more specifically in Germany. One week after the Fury had come to dinner, it was Christmas Eve and Father was wearing his new uniform, since he was promoted to Commandant. Grandfather was really proud about Father’s accomplishment mentioning how he was given such a responsible position and that he was going to reclaim there countries pride, but Grandmother was neither happy nor proud. On the contrary, she disagreed questioning where she went wrong, for him to be like a puppet on a string of the powerful men, and how now what he only cared about was to look good in his uniform not taking into consideration the terrible things the militaries do. But what I didn’t quite understand was whether or not Bruno’s Grandmother was in favor or against of Germany and Hitler sending innocent Jews to be tortured and assassinated in the concentration camps. Finally, Bruno sends a letter from Out-With saying how sad and miserable he is and narrating them about the fence and the people in the striped pajamas, even though he doesn’t know what this people represent.