The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas Setting Analysis

Setting	When and Where the Story Takes Place	Description of Environment / Place	Quotes to Support
Time Period	The story takes place in the time period of World War II. It is early 1940’s because World War II was between 1939 and 1945 and the Auschwitz Concentration Camp was operated between 1940 and 1945	Auschwitz: There was a concentration camp just in front of Bruno’s new house. It was just the huge wide fence that can along the length of it and turned in at the top, extending further along, that separated the outside from the concentration camp. There wasn’t any grass after the fence, or any greenery. There was nothing but low huts and large square buildings. Men and children, had striped pyjamas on them. Bruno’s house was the only one around except the ones in the camp. Berlin: The street that the house in Berlin stood on was quiet and along site it were a handful other big houses like itself. There were other boys in that houses, not like Auschwitz. When you walked towards the centre of town there was always people strolling along and stopping to chat to each other or rushing around and saying they had no time to stop, not today, not when they had a hundred and one things to do. In the house in Berlin Bruno always found new things to do and he loved to slide down the banister from the top floor to the lowest one.	“…..All he could say was that his father was a man to watch and that the Fury had big things in mind for him. Oh, and that he had a fantastic uniform too.” Narrator, page 5 “Those people… well, they’re not people at all, Bruno’s Father, page 53. He says this about the Jews. “I came home from school and my mother was making armbands for us from a special cloth and drawing a star on each one like this…    “ Shmuel, page 127 “My father wears one too, on his uniform. It’s very nice. It’s bright red with a black-and-white design on it… ” Bruno, page 127
Place	The story takes place in these locations; -          House in Berlin -          House in Auschwitz -          Bruno’s Room -          Gretel’s Room -          Father’s Office -          The stretch of land between the fence and concentration Camp -          Kitchen -          Garden -          Auschwitz Concentration Camp		“I heard father say that whoever lived here at out-with before us lost their job very quickly and didn’t have time to make the place nice for us” Gretel, page 24 “One day he was perfectly content playing at home, having three best friends for life, sliding down banisters, trying to stand on his tiptoes to see right across Berlin, and now he was stuck here in this cold, nasty house with three whispering maids and a waiter who has both unhappy and angry, where no one looked as if they could ever be cheerful again.” Narrator, page 15