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chiarara's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs and Antisemitism
Minor: War and Murder
elli_friend's review against another edition
1.0
The writing style was ok, a bit lackluster but that might just be because it was written from the perspective of a 9 yo boy. The book contains a lot of misinformations and lacks historical accuracy. It’s written from the pov of a German boy and spreads the false narrative that German people weren’t aware of what was happening in the concentration camps when he literally lives next to one. At the end of the book when the mc Bruno dies the focus is on the parents reaction to the death, sympathising with the Nazi parents rather than the 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million Jewish children, that died during the holocaust. Instead of reading this nazi-sympathiser book read books by Jewish authors about the shoah and the Jewish experience
https://hcn.org.uk/blog/the-problem-with-the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas/
https://hcn.org.uk/blog/the-problem-with-the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas/
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, and Genocide
agatha_hopkins's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Antisemitism and War
Minor: Death and Child death
ewaaa's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Antisemitism, and Murder
Minor: Animal death
alexlily's review against another edition
1.0
Major yikes
Auschwitz Memorial: "'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' should be avoided by anyone who studies or teaches about the history of the Holocaust."
Auschwitz Memorial: "'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' should be avoided by anyone who studies or teaches about the history of the Holocaust."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism, Confinement, Death, War, Genocide, Religious bigotry, and Child death
sammmehhh's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: War, Genocide, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism
Minor: Child death
snakeking8's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism
kotroby's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
After reading this book I can only say that I feel immense pain. Excruciating pain for the horrors and heinous crimes committed during world war two. It’s awful it’s villainous it’s so cruel and unforgivable what these people were put through and how many people were killed so ruthlessly by people who had absolutely no right to treat anyone this way. This book touched me deeply and made me truly see the entire conflict in a new light. Bruno was such an innocent, kind and thoughtful child brought up in a world that didn’t deserve him, to a high ranking military dad personally favourited by their leader. Throughout this whole book he represented how an innocent child would view the world and his story is inspiring as much as it is heartbreaking. I knew he was going to die, or at least had an idea that he would, but it made it no easier. The image of the two boys who had managed to find each other in such an awful world, innocently and ignorantly holding hands whilst their lives were taken away from them was harrowing. I wish I could find them and hug them and tell them everything would be okay, but it wouldn’t. I loved how the story switches seamlessly between the different perspectives, I loved the family dynamics and most importantly the relationship between Bruno and Shmuel, and how the narrator wrote in the way you would imagine Bruno was thinking, as an innocent 9 year old viewing the world through his lens. It’s so sad that these atrocious things occurred to millions of people and thay millions of Shmuels existed but without a Bruno, suffering alone until the end. This is why we need to make sure we don’t forget history, so that these atrocities are never ever committed again.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and Antisemitism
eirasenior's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism and Xenophobia
Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, and War
brookewhelen's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism and War