Page 86-finish of the boy in the striped pajamas. SPOILER ALERT!!-The Second Paragraph!!!!
This book may have to be one of my favorites of all time. That is because how it was written, not full of action, just interesting conversations throughout the book. The whole book seemed pretty inocent and normal with the focus on Bruno and Shmuel's conversations. That is until the end when the book had an amzing way of leaving me unsettled and thinking about what just happened. I even had to read the last chapter again to catch all the detail!
I left off when Bruno felt like leaving Out-With. But one day Bruno decides to go exploring so he could leave his new boring house and as he walks for over an hour he notices a dot in the distance. It turns to a blob, a figure, and then a little boy. This boy is the first one he has seen since he has been in the town Out-With. Bruno is completely unaware what a concentration camp is, so he thinks Shmuel lives in a happy go lucky town that wears striped pajamas. Shmuel and Bruno start having conversations everyday. They both enjoy that because neither really has a friend besides each other now. Bruno is interested of what is on the other side of the fence, but Shmuel insists that he would hate it. (Shmuel knows what is going on at his camp, but he does not want to tell Bruno the Brutal truth.) Shmuel and Bruno talked together almost every afternoon for a year; except on days with. bad weather conditions Although Bruno's mom is having the least joy out of this place they have moved to. She argued with Bruno's dad heavily proclaming that "this is not the place to raise children". Mom did get her way, and now they are moving back to Berlin. But the problem is that his dad has to stay here in Out-With. Bruno's sister Gretel is very excited about leaving, but Bruno didn't remember anything about home, and he was unsure about leaving his new best friend Shmuel. Bruno has to leave regardless though. So after Bruno tells him the bad news, the boys dream up an adventure. An adventure where BRuno goes to the other side of the fence to help Shmuel find his papa. So he does that but as Bruno arrives at the camp, it is a lot worse that Bruno ever thought of, and he is wondering why his kind dad would run such a brutal place. But at that very time the Jews (along with Bruno) are marched into a big airtight chamber; the showers. But as Bruno and Shmuel are holding hands, being eachother's best friend forever. There is a release of gas in the room, gasps and screams ring through the air. Bruno is never seen or heard from again.

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