Did you like the book The Things They Carried?

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas?

This story was my favorite of the week. It reminded me of a movie called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. In this movie a nazi soldier is in charge of a concentration camp and he moves his family to a very luxerous house close by so they can be with him. The families house is surrounded by a huge brick wall and the soldier's son is forbidden to go outside the walls. However the innocent boy wants to play fairlytales and he sneaks out and sees another boy in the concentration camp wearing striped clothes. They become friends and the soldiers son sneaks into the camp and is utimately killed by his father's own accidental orders. In the story Once Apon A Time, a family is so determined to remain safe from the "others" (the poor and colored who live in a different area) that their house is enclosed by barbed wire. A reoccuring theme is the stories and fairytales this family tells their young son. He is given a story book for christmas for example. The author was also asked to write a childrens' story. This child is ultimately the victum of his parents protections when he is caught in the barbed wire.

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