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THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
It’s inside an improbable historic background that the tale written by John Boyne takes place in the novel “The boy in the striped pyjamas”; a best seller with a strong emotional impact based in part on fantasy and in part on sadly famous events that signed our county’s history such as the one of the entire Europe.
Bruno, a 8 years old child son of a SS general, is forced to leave his house together with his family to reach a place called “Auscit” because of the mysterious but highly respectable job of his father, a solider deeply faithful to the autocratic regime he serves and for this raised to high dignities directly from the “Furio”, principal cause of the displacement of the young protagonist.
At Auscit Bruno will take contact with a really different reality from the previous one of his Berlin life, an existence made of boredom, prohibitions, soldiers, and after few days of residence, of the funny sight of a weird “farm” populated by farmers dressed with striped pyjamas, situated some kilometres far from his house’s window.
It’s so that his curiosity won the fight with the recommendations and prohibitions of the family, and Bruno adventures towards the farm where he will have an unexpected meeting at its impassable border, something that will completely change his life.
Unless several historical inaccuracies and the impossibility for some events to happen inside an autocratic and clearly racist regime like Hitler’s one it seems that Boyne’s novel can’t be affected by these critics about the message expressed by the author in every single page of this jewel: the strength and importance of friendship that flies over every boundaries, over the barbwire, the racial division, adult’s ideology, the symbols, history and the bitter smoke of death condensed in the sky near an enormous, horrible crematory.
Little diamond of modern literature, The boy in the striped pyjamas does not of course have the problem to tell authentic historical events, but with his copious dose of fantasy gives our heart a knowledge of a too much diffused reality made of hate, now as then.
Shikaia590
Planned and developed by Mrs Lindstrom with the help of Nailedtoacross, Legolas di Mirkwood,
Shikaia590 Editor in chief: Mrs Lindstrom, Graphic Project: Dan[616]
