The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas depicts two extremely interesting experiences of the Holocaust. Night was a non-fiction novel written by a Jewish boy who was sent to a concentration camp during World War II. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is based on the novel of the same name by Irish writer John Boyne.
It tells the story of a Nazi soldier’s son named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy he meets at a nearby concentration camp. Bruno sneaks him food each time he comes for a visit, but what happens at the end is heart-breaking. Throughout the film Bruno has no idea what the Nazis were doing to the Jews; he sees the Nazis as people helping their country. Not until the end of the movie does he realize the terrible things the Nazis were doing to the Jewish people.