One of my favorite books/movies

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

     I like to read books, most of them are about fantasy, supernatural situations, adventures, horror, not much about love and stuff like that, it's not my first option. This book in particular is beautiful because it shows you how innocent a kid is, no matter where they are or how they live. For example, when Bruno, the main character, arrived in his new house in Auschwitz, he didn't know why they were there or what's his dad's job about, but he's still proud of him. As time passed, Bruno discovers a "farm" where strange people live; his mother doesn't let him to go to the "farm", but he's so bored that he can't control his adventurous soul, that's when he meet Shmuel.

     What I admire the most in this book is how Bruno and Shmuel's friendship starts and grows. This doesn't suppose to happen. Why? Because Bruno is a german boy and his father is the commander of the SS in Auschwitz, while Shmuel is a jewish boy trapped in a concentration camp. They're suppose to be "enemies", but that's not how they see it. I feel that they had some kind of connection and it started to get bigger and bigger, stronger and stronger every time they met. Even a small talk was enough for them to have fun because they were enjoying each other's company, they were inside of their bubble where everything was ok, even though they were in the middle of a war.

     To conclude with, the end of the book was sad (even though I didn't cry and that's why my friends say that my heart's a stone or that I don't have one xD), but I didn't see it in that way. I felt that they died was, not the best, but the most appropiate thing that could happen to them; somehow I didn't find a future in that friendship because of the circunstances. For me it ended well, Shmuel was Bruno's best friend and he wanted to be like that forever and they died together being that, best friends forever. This also helped (maybe) to make Bruno's father think, analyze that what he was doing was completely bad and his job was not worth it if that made him lose his son and his relationship with his family.

Like I said before, this book is beautiful, simple, but BEAUTIFUL.