Meaning What Does It Tell Us About the Character?
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Quotes Meaning ??? What does it tell us about the character? “The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.'
'Ah, those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people... well, they're not people at all, Bruno.'
Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that.”
One day he was perfectly content, playing at home, 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 was both unhappy and angry, where no one looked as if they could ever be cheerful again.
About Bruno, after change of location close to Auschwitz concentration camp is forced on his family, Page 15.
Bruno: Why do you wear pyjamas all day? Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away. Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away. ” We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make all the decisions for us. Bruno's mother, Page 14.
“In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.”