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CHANGE: THE BOY IN THE STRIPED
PAJAMAS
By: Rory
BEFORE I FINISHED THE STORY
I have just finished reading the first couple chapters
of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. An opinion I have
is I think the John Boyne uses really good, visionary
words. He is very detailed in his writing and really
gives me visuals of the story. Some examples
are………
I really like how when the author wrote the book, he
made the characters act very realistic. Bruno acts
how a real 9 year old kid should (I know, I have a
brother around the same age). Gretel is very
impatient, like most 12 year old girls are. She acts
like she knows everything, just like most of the
teenagers in our grade do.
An opinion I have about the John is dialogue. I think
he doesn’t use enough discussion in his writing, and
I got pretty bored after every couple pages not
having anyone talk in it. The story was very
interesting, but I think some of the thing in the book
weren’t as necessary as other things that could have
been put in the book.
I don’t like how the author takes a long time to get to
the point. I know he writes beautifully and very
descriptively; but he writes a lot where he can write
the same thing, equally as beautiful, in a much
shorter amount of time. In the story he exaggerates
a LOT of things. He might take a whole paragraph on
telling me how somebody’s shirt had a stain on it. I
think the author should exaggerate the important
things, but not every single little detail.
AFTER I READ THE REST OF THE B OOK
I think when Bruno and Shmuel went into gas
chamber; “real” 9 year old boys wouldn’t have been
so oblivious. I know they didn’t really know what was
going on, but they were being shut in a room with a
bunch of people they didn’t know. The fact that they
were treated so cruel also was a little suspicious. If it
were my brothers being shut in there, they would
have been curious and maybe even freaking out. I
think in the story they act way too calm.
Another opinion that has changed is the dialogue. I
think towards the end of the story the author used
more dialogue, which kept me interested. There
were still some spots where not a lot was going on,
but overall there was more conversation. I thought
John was good at keeping things moving smoothly.
Another thing that has changed is that the author
was too descriptive. Before I thought that John used
too many descriptive words, but now, I don’t think he
did. I think in the end, when Bruno and Shmuel were
in the gas chamber, he worded the end of the
chapter beautifully. It wasn’t gory, and it didn’t tell a
lot of what happened; but it made the reader use
their brains to figure out what happened.