Table of Contents
- 1 How does Bruno feel about his father?
- 2 What is the relationship between Bruno and his mother?
- 3 What is the relationship between Bruno and his father?
- 4 Why did father shave off all of Bruno’s hair?
- 5 What happened to Bruno’s dad?
- 6 What does the reader most likely understand about the relationship between Bruno and Shmuel that Bruno does not understand?
How does Bruno feel about his father?
Bruno loves and respects his father, but he is somewhat afraid of him. When Bruno’s father says the people on the other side of the fence are not people at all, he means that they don’t matter. He tells Bruno, “You have nothing whatsoever in common with them” (53). He does not care about any of them.
What is the relationship between Bruno and his mother?
Bruno’s relationship with his mother can reasonably be described as difficult. This is largely because, in the family dynamic, she is on the side of her husband, acting as his loyal lieutenant when it comes to instilling the children with discipline and Nazi ideology.
Why does Bruno go to speak to his father?
Bruno decides that he must speak with Father about how much he dislikes their new home. Father had left for the new house a few days before the entire family closed the house in Berlin and left for Out-With.
What does Bruno’s father do in the boy in the striped pajamas?
Bruno’s father, known simply as “Father” in the novel, is a commanding officer in the Nazi Party who takes charge of operations for the Out-With (Auschwitz) Camp in Poland. Father has spent all of his adult life in military service.
What is the relationship between Bruno and his father?
Bruno and his father are polite toward each other but rather distant. It is his mother with whom he has a closer emotional relationship. Father seems to show affection with brief gestures, such as kissing him goodnight.
Why did father shave off all of Bruno’s hair?
She’d found lice eggs in her hair. Bruno had lice, too, and his parents had to shave his hair off.
How does father react when Bruno knocks and then enters his office in chapter 5 the first time Bruno enters father’s office in out with )?
His father is talking with a group of other officers outside his office, which is always “Out Of Bounds At All Times And No Exceptions.” Bruno enters his father’s office after knocking. His father greets him but is not affectionate; according to Bruno, he does not hug like Grandmother and Grandfather.
How would you describe Bruno’s relationship with his father?
How would you describe Bruno’s relationship with his father? Bruno loves and respects his father, but he is somewhat afraid of him. He walks slowly toward his office and hesitates before going in.
What happened to Bruno’s dad?
As he realizes what must have happened, Bruno’s father is grief stricken. He becomes depressed and no longer is concerned with his career. Bruno’s father thought he could keep his family safe from the horrors of Auschwitz but learned the hard way that what we do to others comes back to hurt us.
What does the reader most likely understand about the relationship between Bruno and Shmuel that Bruno does not understand?
What does the reader most likely understand about the relationship between Bruno and Shmuel that Bruno does not understand? That Shmuel is a harder worker and is unwilling to play with Bruno. That Bruno’s words to Shmuel are thoughtless and inconsiderate. That Shmuel has visited Bruno’s home many times before.