When Bruno asks when they can return to Berlin, Father tells him to give Out-With a chance, because it is their home now, "for the foreseeable future" (48). After Gretel returns to her room, Bruno continues to watch the people out his bedroom window and notices that they're all wearing the same thing: "a pair of grey striped pajamas with a grey striped cap on their heads" (38).īruno decides to speak to Father, who arrived at Out-With a few days earlier. She agrees with Bruno that their new living situation is horrible and tells him that the place is called "Out-With." Bruno shows Gretel the scene from his bedroom window: There are boys, men, and elderly men living together on the opposite side of a fence that extends farther than they can see into the distance. Bruno runs into Gretel's room and discovers her arranging her dolls around her room. In contrast to his family's big, beautiful home in Berlin, "there was something about the new house that made Bruno think that no one ever laughed there that there was nothing to laugh at and nothing to be happy about" (13).Ĭhapter Three introduces Gretel, Bruno's older sister by three years, whom he refers to as "Trouble From Day One" (21). Chapter Two begins with a comparison of Bruno's old home in Berlin to his new living situation. When he asks his mother what is going on, she explains that Bruno's father's job is the reason they are all leaving their home in Berlin someone Bruno knows only as "the Fury" has plans for his father's career. Bruno, a young boy living in Berlin during the Nazi regime, arrives home from school one day to find his family's maid, Maria, packing up his things.
0 kommentar(er)
