Summary - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” is a Holocaust novel by John Boyne. The story, set in World War II Germany, has become very popular and was adapted into a film in 2008. In chapter one, Bruno, a young German boy, arrived at home and discovered his family was packing up their things to move out because his father’s career as a Nazi soldier. Bruno didn’t like the idea to leave the house and his life in Berlin but finally he accepted it. So, they arrived at a countryside house, very far away from Bruno’s friends, with three new skinny servants who always spoke each other in whispering voices. In chapter ten, Bruno had been felt so bored with no one to play during weeks that finally he decided to explore the land. At the end, he arrived at a fence and there was a little boy on the other side. He was wearing a striped pyjama and seemed bony and sad. The boys discovered that they were the same age and Shmuel, the other boy, was from Poland just exactly where Bruno’s family had been moved at which came as a surprise to Bruno. Shmuel told Bruno that there were a lot of children in his side, but they had never played, and this surprised Bruno too. In chapter eighteen, Bruno discovered that he will come back to Berlin soon, but they wanted to have the chance to play together once. So, they decided that the next day, Bruno will go to Shmuel’s fence side and he will wear a striped pyjama.