English Novel
viernes, 4 de mayo de 2012
Sequence?
I think that it might be a sequence of the novel, but it can´t have the principal characters Bruno and Smuel. It might be about the life of the family after the terrible situation and also about how they survived or the situation that they still living during the world war II. It would be interesant because we can know how world war II ends and the consequences and also the benefits that this brought on.
Conclusion
I think that the novel "The boy with the striped pyjamas", is a great description of what happened in extermination camps, and also the big difference that there was between jewish people lifes and german people lifes. We can notice in this novel that sometimes the people that is rich and most powerfull doesn´t care about poor people, instead they use their power and wealth in a bad way, in this case to exterminate these people who were poor or misshapened. I really liked this novel because it shows how childhood is the best time of our lifes, and how children doesn´t think about war or hating people just because the religion, race or different ideas. For that I recomended other people to read this book, because it does not just make us think about beeing good human beeing or nice with the people who is different from us, it also shows us how the world can be a peaceful place and also the concecuences like a war, for just dont tolerate the others.
People's reviews.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas explores the beauty of a child's innocence in a time of war, the common desire we all have for friendship, and the fences—both literal and figurative—that we must all navigate and choose whether or not to break down. -eNotes review.
My Auschwitz friend read the book at my urging. He wept, and begged me tell everyone that this book is not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation. No one may dare alter the truths of the Holocaust, no matter how noble his motives.
The Holocaust is simply too grim a subject for Grimm fairytales.- by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
As we can see many people thinks that yhis is a good book with a good intention to tell people the history of the holocaust and how this affect to a lot of people and also killed million of them and changed completely not only german and jewish lifes, also a lot of people´s lifes.
We can also see that there are people who took this book as an insult because they remember the time that they spent in the holocaust or the time in the world war II and for them is an insult because they think that the author is makeing fun of them or took the situation just to write a book.
Music
This book talks about the horror that jewish people lived in the holocaust and how the childhood of two children were interrupted and also unpleacent for that the music that may be good for this book is a sad music and also classical for the time where the context of the book is happening. For that reason I think that moonlight from Beethoven is a good example of the music that this book should have to transmite different emotions and get peoples attention and also involve them with the situations that the book relate.
Mexican version?
There can be a mexican version of the book. The reason is because the book talks about the horror that jewish people live trough the world war II and how they were treated in a sinister way and also exterminated in concentration camps. When spanish people control mexican territory and also the government they enslave people from the different mexican culture and also treat them in a sinister way, letting them in poverty and also enforcing them to live the way they say and also to practice the religion they practice. There were no holocaust for them but they were also exterminated and forced to do hard work. For that reasons there can be a movie based in the novel the boy with the striped pyjamas about an indigen boy from mexico that meet a spanish boy in the period of the conolization of Mexico.
The Movie
The boy in the striped pyjamas is a movie based on John Boyne´s novel. The film talks about the horror of a world war II extermination camp and the different lives of an 8 year-old boys one the son of the camp's nazi commandant, the other a Jewish inmate. SS officer Ralf and his wife Elsa move from Berlin to the countryside with their children Gretel and Bruno, after Ralf is promoted to commandant of a Nazi concentration camp, implied to be Auschwitz. In this description of the movie we can see a difference between the book and the movie. In the book there is no name for Bruno's parents, they are called just mother and father, and as we can see, the parents do have a name on the film. As we all know in all the books the scene and stage are described with detail while the film has no much detail in those narrative aspects because you can see how it is. Another difference is that the film don´t show all the things that Bruno and Smuel went through before they became best friends. There is no much difference between the novel and the film because it´s a short novel that can be turn into a film without taking away important scenes or situations.
The Author
John Boyne was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1971. He studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and creative writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown prize. His early writing consisted mostly of short stories and he published a number of them. His first story, The Entertainments Jar, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Award in Ireland. In total, he has published about 70 short stories.
His 2006 novel, "The boy in the striped pyjamas" , was made into an award-winning Miramax film. The novel itself won 2 Irish Book Awards, the Bisto Book of the Year, and was shortlisted or won a host of international awards. Amongst other accolades, it spent more than 80 weeks at no.1 in Ireland, topped the New York Times Bestseller List, and was the bestselling book in Spain in both 2007 and 2008. Worldwide, it has sold more than 5 million copies.
In April 2012, at the Hennessy Literary Awards in Dublin, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for my body of work.
Suscribirse a:
Entradas (Atom)

