Enrichment Opportunity
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by wojtask
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Rent the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. It’s an excellent movie on the Holocaust. You may do this with friends if you’d like. Write a reflection on the movie. Include what the Holocaust was about as well as some of your thoughts on what you learned by watching this video. Your reflection should be a paragraph of at least 10-15 sentences. The movie is PG 13, so you will need consent from your Parent/Legal Guardian to watch the movie. Make some popcorn and enjoy. 
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I just got done watching the movie “The Boy in Striped Pajamas”. It is about a young German boy, Bruno that finds friendship with a Jewish boy named Schmuel. They usually meet at the corner of the electric barbed wire fence everyday. Here are my thoughts on the movie.
The movie itself was disheartening and extremely sad. Because of the fact that Jews and Germans were enemies at this tragic time, Bruno had to sneak around to see Schmuel, which made things complicated for being friends. In one part of the story Schmuel was commanded to go to the house which Bruno and his family lived and had to dry dishes, Bruno gave him food, as he was eating a German officer walked in, Bruno lied about giving him the food and Schmuel was severely punished. This is where the story gets sad. Bruno tries making up for the mistake that he had made and tried to help Schmuel find his father who was missing inside the Concentration Camp. As they were looking they were all sent to the gas chamber and were suffocated to death by the gas, Schmuel and Bruno were holding hands until death and that was extremely sad. Overall the movie was heartbreaking and made me depressed. That is what I thought about the movie “The Boy in Striped Pajamas”.
Report Written By: Jonathon Hansen (5th)