Open Response---Please write a 150 word response to what you saw in the film. It can be about anything that struck you emotionally, intellectually or otherwise. Please respond to at least 1 other student's response. Please keep responses appropriate.
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Dylan
3/24/2014 11:54:04 pm
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Comf
3/24/2014 11:55:35 pm
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Tiltons Evil Twin
3/27/2014 02:41:58 am
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Caviars
3/24/2014 11:58:21 pm
I think I read the book before
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Dylan
3/25/2014 12:06:32 am
No matter where they go they always have to live in a mansion
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Comfy
3/25/2014 12:10:04 am
I love the little kid that is acting in this movie! His name is Asa Butterfield and he was in Enders Games!
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Dylan
3/25/2014 12:12:45 am
I've never seen Enders game
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Michael Westberg
3/25/2014 10:09:16 am
Today, we watched part of the “Boy in the Striped Pajamas”. So far the small boy that is focused on in the move is more innocent than the rest of his family. After leaving Berlin it seemed like he would be more of an outcast. Seeing the camps and calling them farms would be correct because they are actually only keeping that workable and are slaughtering the weak and ill. This fact is he is not relizing what it really is.
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Dylan
3/25/2014 10:35:21 pm
The boys family should tell him what the "farms" really are
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Jordan
3/25/2014 10:45:51 pm
He's to young
Cody
3/25/2014 10:45:51 pm
Exactly, he is so innocent though
Aaron
3/25/2014 10:46:38 pm
Yeah and the rest of Germany should tell everyone what the "farms" really are too lol
Dylan
3/25/2014 10:53:08 pm
The boys going to find out one way or another
Michael Westberg
3/26/2014 10:32:02 am
Bruno is just an innocent young German that hasn’t conformed to the rest of the German opinion. This and how he wants to find some new friends allow his to befriend a special person who he shouldn’t be friends with at that time. He lied about his friend’s eating of the food and that wasn’t right. Just to do what Bruno did wasn’t right. Luckily his friendship with him didn’t get ruined.
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Corey Boucher
3/27/2014 03:01:12 am
He would have faced a weaker punishment than what his friend faced
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Brandon
3/27/2014 02:42:13 am
I feel bad for the Jews hey were tortured and beaten so bad and basically killed for no reason.
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Sarena
3/27/2014 02:44:18 am
The movie has not really struck any emotions but one thing I have to disagree on is how the man beats the boy even if they beleved that they were the enemy a man should not beat a boy. Also I love how there twos friendship grows between the fence even though there from 2 different worlds there friendship truly shows that he wants to help him find his father.
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Big E
3/27/2014 02:49:46 am
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3/27/2014 02:59:34 am
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Isaiah Geer
3/27/2014 02:51:17 am
They treat the Jews like nothing they aren't even people. This movie shows part of what happened to the Jews in Germany. They were disrespected and abused. Bruno didn't know the horrors that was behind the fence. They should've kept an eye on Bruno and they could've stopped him from the interaction with smol. Not that Smol is a bad kid but if Bruno would've listened to smol about not coming in and how it was to be there he may not have gone.
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Isaac Monahan
3/27/2014 02:55:00 am
The film as a whole heavily struck me in the sense that there's the multiple points of views going on between Bruno with his feeling that the prisoners are farmers and that his dad is a soldier fighting for "good" cause and his father and sister's point of views that nazism is a good cause and that the Jews should die because they are enemies to the advancement of the Aryan's and the white Protestant society this film made me think from all views from the nazis to the young children and even the prisoners of the camps all in all a very eye opening film that invoked many different emotions into me especially the first time I watched it
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Isaiah
3/27/2014 03:14:49 am
If the dad or mom would've told Bruno he may not have thought but being a kid and being the Jews are the enemy the question is why? Why were they attacking these innocent people and what did they do.
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Dylan
3/27/2014 02:59:53 am
Worst ending ever. Of all time
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Matt LaRoche
3/27/2014 03:10:41 am
Seriously?! You're that insensitive? Just no...
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Matthew Bonneau
3/27/2014 03:00:05 am
In the movie, Bruno's father was a ranking nazi officer. He moved his way up the ranks, to where his family finally had to move to a new home, which happened to be within viewing distance of a death camp. His father spent his entire life dedicated to the eradication of Jews, both young and old. He never put a thought into what it would be like to be a Jew int eh situation, loosing a loved one, or in the worst case, a child. I find it completely ironic that after years of treating th Jewish people like animals, his child was a victim of a death camp that he personally oversaw.
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Brandon
3/27/2014 03:01:01 am
This film was alright, it struck me in a way and I do feel bad that the two boys friend ship grew than, they had to die together and the boy didn't even know what was going on and the Jews thought it was a shower.
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Tori
3/27/2014 03:06:54 am
This movie really shows the ignorance of the soldiers and all the people that thought it was okay to just kill all the Jews because of their religion. None of the soldiers could tell the difference between Bruno and the rest of the Jewish people, because there is no difference, they are all innocent people. The only people that should be killed are the heartless soldiers.
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Matthew Lavallee
3/27/2014 03:07:22 am
The movie was based on a young German boy named Bruno. Bruno was unaware of the political atmosphere in Germany throughout most of the movie and befriends a young Jewish by named Shmuel. As the movie progresses Shmuel and Bruno become better friends and Bruno breaks into the concentration camp to help Shmuel find his father. The movie ends with both boys gassed.
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Matt LaRoche
3/27/2014 03:09:27 am
This struck me as a whole as really eye opening. I already knew how horrific the Holocaust was but actually seeing it, even as a movie, was just awful. The Jews were treated straight up inhumanly. They were starved and abused and forced to do work and hard labor. The terror they must have had to gone through while walking into the showers, knowing they wouldn't come out alive. The fact that they were just ruthlessly executed. I agree with Matt that the father was just following orders. He had the choice of either having him and his family executed or following hitlers orders. He had to work at the camp.
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Isaiah Geer
3/27/2014 03:09:52 am
From what I've seen in the movie only the soliders really discriminated the Jews for what hitler thought to be true. The wife seemed to hate what was being done. Even if they had told Bruno what the camp was he would've gone to see what it was like anyway the only real way to avoid Bruno's death was to have only the dad move by the concentration camp. I don't like this movie because I hate seeing the way Jews were treated. I knew that this is what happened to millions of Jews and other kinds of people. I think it's sad how the Germans could do this innocent people, and have no remorse after doing it. Even though all of Germany wasn't bad it was run by bad people.
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Matthew Lavallee
3/27/2014 03:10:08 am
In my opinion the father was a good guy forced to do evil things. The cost of disobeying orders was your life in some situations. The fact that he was forced to run the concentration doesn't mean he agreed with it, and throughout the movie he does show love for his family.
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Michael Westberg
3/27/2014 03:12:36 am
I agree that he dido bad things but was a good person. He was just doing what he thought was right for him to do at that time in Germany's situation.i
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Matt Bonneau
3/27/2014 03:13:14 am
The man had many career choices as a kid, am correct? He was NOT in any way forced to choose "nazi" as a career choice. You are correct in the sense that once he chose this path, he was just following orders, but it was also obvious hoe much pride he took in this. He was able to triple the capacity of the death chamber, and the pride there was obvious.
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Aaron
3/27/2014 03:15:29 am
I agree with Matt. He could not have been a good person knowing very well what he was doing.
Matt Bonneau
3/27/2014 03:14:35 am
You are a terrible person and you should put yourself and your family in the shoes of a family in the concentration camp.
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Trevor Smith
3/27/2014 03:16:15 am
He was not a nice man he let those Jews die, and get beat. May be he should have paid more attention to his son instead of increasing death efficiency of the Jews, if anything he killed his own son
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Shawna Hawes
3/27/2014 03:10:18 am
In this movie Bruno thinks that there are farmers that live across the land from where he moved. He met this little Jew boy named shmuel and becomes friends with him. He finds out that the "farm" is a concentration camp where Jews are held. Bruno's mother Elsa finds out that the soldiers burn the Jews. Bruno explores and he goes to the concentration camps. His friend shmuel can't find his father, so Bruno dresses up like a Jew and gets into the concentration camps. His mother and father find out that Bruno has been going to the camp and looks for Bruno. His dad finds out that there is a hut without Jews and realized that his son was there and he was in that chamber with the Jews.
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Tori
3/27/2014 03:10:33 am
The dad also reported the other solider for not telling the government about his fathers rebellion to what they are doing but at the same time he didn't report his own mother for rebelling for the same things.
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Ian Merry
3/27/2014 03:10:57 am
From what I have seen in the movie "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas" it was a terribly cruel and hateful time back then. The way they treated everyone else was just sickening. Making the "Jews" servants doing tasks like serving and cleaning then putting them back in the camps is just awful. If you made a mistake you would actually get beaten ruthlessly if not put in the gas chambers or the oven. They also used kids as servants also. The father of Bruno was a total tool he keeps his family with them near the concentration camps and expects his kid to not be curious and go wandering? When Bruno ends up finding the concentration camp it wasn't surprising. He should have just sent his kid to the other safe house and visit him it's not like he was constantly spending time with him anyways. He could have saved his kids life and his family a tragic loss if he had just thought. But I guess that's what people mean when they say "Karma is a b*****". The father kills millions of "Jews" and his kid ends up dying one of them he had it coming from the start.
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Erica
3/27/2014 03:12:45 am
This was such a sad movie.. Maybe If the parents maybe told Bruno what was going on it could've been avoided instead of ignoring him when he was asking questions. If Bruno was a few minutes late for some reason he wouldn't have been killed. I think once Bruno died his dad probably opened his eyes on what they were doing to do the Jews. And if Bruno was informed he could've have brought the shovel and helped his friend escape. It's unfortunate how they didn't know and that so many people died.
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Trevor Smith
3/27/2014 03:12:56 am
This movie was about a boy named Bruno, Bruno thought he had a hard time in life, but didn't know the life that he would have had if he were Jewish. Bruno didn't understand why his father made the decision he did, but Bruno was innocent and didn't know. Near the end of the movie a high ranking officer said Bruno would be the best explorer if he found a nice Jew. Bruno soon realized that most Jews he met were nice.
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Dylan
3/27/2014 03:13:50 am
An innocent young boy named Bruno believes his father is a good man yet his father puts people in concentration camps. Bruno found one of these concentration camps and befriends a Jewish boy named Shmuel. Bruno thought that the camps were a fun place. But looking at the violence the nazis inflicted upon the Jews he learns that the camps were prisons. One day he decides to help his friend find his dad. So Bruno disguised himself as a Jew and went into the camp. They followed a group of men hoping to find Shmuel's father. But what they didn't know was that these men were going to die by a "shower". They undressed and went into this chamber. The door locked behind them. Then the nazis poured the poison gas into the room, killing them all.
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Aaron
3/27/2014 03:14:04 am
The film "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" consistently strikes a chord in many viewers, depicting a very personal view on the horrors of the holocaust. With two opposite worlds colliding, one being the German boy Bruno and the other being the Jewish boy Shmuel, the film gives a feeling of moral conflict from Bruno and his family. Any viewer of this film would feel emotional pain seeing Bruno's family come to the realization that Bruno had died in the gas chambers, in the very same camp that Bruno's father had been running. Seeing the look on his father's face and hearing the screams from his mother, one can't help but make a personal connection to the story, and perhaps make a connection to the pain the Jews underwent during the Holocaust. The film is intellectually stimulating, being rich in historical content from the time period, also the film's plot line causes the viewer to use their mind to understand and ponder about the films contents. In conclusion, the film "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" gives a different perspective on the horrors of the holocaust, and evoked emotion and thought in the viewer of this incredible movie.
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Stephen Mellen
3/27/2014 03:14:54 am
This movie is beautifully shot and we'll directed. It illustrates the life of a young boy who's fathers job is to watch over a concentration camp in Germany. The boy (Asa) befriends a young Jewish boy who is stuck inside the camp. Eventually Asa digs his way into the camp to be with his friend. The movie ends with the boys being gased and killed. I have visited a concentration camp and this movie accurately depicts the setting and theme which is inferred. I found the herding of the Jews into the showers shocking.
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Corey Boucher
3/27/2014 03:18:38 am
I don't think beating and using the Jews as cleaning servants. They even beat the little kid Shmuel very badly.I liked how Bruno and Shmuel became closer and closer friends but Bruno didn't know what the farms were about.In my opinion Bruno should of asked his dad about the farms to see what they were about. Instead the kid found out for himself and died because of it.This movie is terrible and the ending is terrible too.
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