Boy in the Stripped Pajamas Blog 2

Today I read more of the book The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas and Bruno and Gretel noticed that the children aren’t just children. There are small and big boys, grandfathers and fathers. They wonder where they are and what is going on. They know they aren’t in a nice place. Where are the women and girls? There were high fences with barbed wire and low flat houses. Bruno and Gretel think the houses are modern and that their father wouldn’t like them. They learned that the country had farm animals and that they grow food, but Gretel and Bruno didn’t see any animals or food growing. Bruno and Gretel kept watching the people on the other side of the fence. They saw groups of people some working, and others talking. There was a group getting yelled out by a soldier. Some had bandages and crutches. They lived close together. Bruno and Gretel wonder why their father would take a job in such a nasty place with so many neighbors. Gretel doesn’t want to play with them because they are dirty. As Bruno continues to watch the people he notices that they all have the same clothes on, a pair of striped pajamas with a grey striped cap on their heads. Bruno’s father left Berlin a few days before the rest of the family and no one had seen him yet. Bruno noticed that when they boarded the train in Berlin all the trains pointed in the same direction this seemed strange to him. Bruno hears his father talking outside the house and later that evening he knocks on the door of his father’s office in the house to speak to his father. They talked about the move and Bruno tells him how he doesn’t like it and how he wants to go home. Bruno is very honest and pushes his father. His father tells him that he needs to know what to keep his mouth shut and follow orders. Bruno continues to ask him about the move and asked his father if he did something bad at his work why else would the fury send you to a place like this. Bruno’s father tells him he doesn’t understand. Bruno still challenges his father until his father has had enough and tells Bruno to go to his room and that he will have to accept things. On his way out, Bruno asks his father about the people outside, he said that they aren’t people. As he leaves, his father calls him back. Bruno remembers and puts his feet together, shot his right arm in the air and “Heil Hitler”. Because of this I can infer that Bruno’s father is leading Bruno to be a Nazi. But I wonder why Bruno’s father has yet to explain their beliefs and political stand point.