Nazi Novel (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas)

      This is a realistic approach to the Holocaust - not every story has a happy ending.

      When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far away where there is no one to play with and nothing to do.

     While Bruno exploring his new environment, he meets another boy who life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship. The story ends with Bruno. As a final adventure, he agrees to dress in a set of striped pyjamas and goes in under the fence to help Shmuel find his father, who went missing in the camp. The boys are unable to find him, and just as it starts to rain and get dark.

      Bruno decides he would like to go home, but they are rounded up in a crowd of people by the Nazi guards who start them on a march. They are soon crowded into a gas chamber, which Bruno assumes is a place to keep them dry from the rain until it stops. But it is not. They wrer all died in gas room finally.