The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Setting
Shalom Nwakibu
Spoiler

When the book starts off Bruno and his family are living in Berlin, around the date of 1942. The season was probably spring because Bruno would play outside with his friends everyday. But then Bruno's fathers work called for a move to a "{place} that made him feel very cold and unsafe"(20). The window in his room was the thing that made him wonder the most. He was very curious about the people that wore the stripped pajamas and lived behind the tall fence. Their new house was named "Out-With" which was in Poland. This setting is very important because if they had never moved essentially their would have not been the camp "Out-With" which was were the Jewish people stayed. Bruno would have never meet his friend on the other side of the fence, Shmuel. Also, his father would have never become Commandant. I would not want to live in this setting because I would not want to experience the cruelty showed to people like Pavel, the servant. If the story never took place in Poland or Berlin; Bruno's father would have never meet with the Fury and moved to Poland. Probably Bruno and his family would be a formal family that did not know anything about the government; they would not have been as wealthy and important.