Chapter 5 Boy in Striped PJ's

1. What does it say that we only actually meet the father in the book in Chapter 5 even though he is the one causing much of the action in the book? We can infer that becuase we have only been introduced to father in chapter 5 we get the sense that he is very important is always on military business. It also means that becuase of the work the father does whether he wants to do it or not he is very detached from his family and therefore is always away and is even though a major character is also at the same time a minor character
2. the mother says: ‘We should have never let the Fury come to dinner. Some people and their determination to get ahead.’ What theme does this introduce regarding the role of ambition and causing harm? The theme that we can pick out from this quote is that some sort of army officers had come over to the house to have dinner with the family in order to get popularity with the father. Instead of going to dinner to get closer to the family they had gone just to try to get a promotion or to get favored over all the others.
3. How does Bruno's father speak to him? Give an example to support your answer. "Well, i don't think you can be very good at your job if it means we all have to move away from a very nice home and our friends and come to a horrible place like this." "You don't understand the significance of such a position" father said. Prior to this chapter we get the image of father as being a typical Nazi officer who is dark and evil and emotionless. But from this chapter we feel that his father is very considerate of Bruno and his feeling about all the changes so he is very nice ans supportive of Bruno to do his best to make him feel at home.
4. How would you compare the way Bruno speaks about the world to his father's? Do they both comment about what is going on around them the same? We could say Bruno speaks exactly what he see's and what he doesn't like in his world where as his Father speaks like a politician who speaks around the truth and rationalizes and convinces himself that he's doing the right thing for the good of Germany.
5. How does the father rationalise every concern that Bruno has? Bruno's father has a good tway of understating everything that happening and changing. For example when Bruno says that he hates the new house and asks why would they move from such a nice house to a horrible house Bruno's father just says it could be better if you do more exploring and take the best
6. What is ironic about what the father says when he comes around the desk and talks to Bruno about his childhood?
7. Do you think that the father really cares about Bruno? Why/why not? Yes I believe he cares deeply about Bruno but the job he has been asked to do has made him very distant from his family as he is trying to keep them away from his work. In this chapter we get the sense that he is trying to help Bruno get through all the changes that have happened.
8. Do you think that Bruno understands what he is saying when he says 'Heil Hitler!'? No becuase as he reader we know the historical facts on why they say 'heil Hitler' and the fact is he forgot to saw it as he was leaving his fathers office we get the idea that he doesn't exactly understand what that means.
9. How is juxtaposition used in Bruno's description of their boarding the train to Auschwitz? The juxtaposition between Bruno's way of living and the Jews between the trains they are taking to Auschwitz where Bruno is very comfortable and the Jews are all crowded in one train. This scene is a microcosm of the main theme how he doesn't do the right thing because Ill get in trouble and his dad and Germany whether he should do the right thing or not about the treatment of the Jews.
10. What is Bruno's reason for not saying anything to the Jews on the crowded train? How is this a representation of the greater German population? Bruno's feeling at that point represent the larger scale freedom of speech which is happening all around Germany. We know from previous chapters that what differs Bruno from all the other characters is that when something happens he is the only character who expresses his feeling while everyone else just stays silent. this is another example where he has to follow the crowd being his family so he wont get in trouble.