Does the boy in the striped pyjamas deal with the sensitive subject of the Holocaust in an appropriate way?

Se Jin Lee March 5th
Green class

Does the boy in the striped pyjamas deal with the sensitive subject of the Holocaust in an appropriate way?

No, I think the book, 'The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas' doesn't deal with the Holocaust, because John Boyne used a Nazi's point of view. Even though it was a good choice because it didn't make the whole book complicated with fears and horror, I thought Bruno wasn't that serious about what was happening in Germany. Everything that happened was translated to more like 9 years old boy's eyes. Surely, the Holocaust was more serious that when Bruno felt after moving to Outwith. In the real history, people didn't really suffer because of loneliness(well some people did but..) It was all about surviving! food and death. Maybe it would have deal with the subject more in an appropriate way if the author wrote the book in Shumel's point of view. For example, in the first chapter everything was basically about having to move into a new house, it would have been more interesting if John Boyne wrote about Shumel getting into the concentration camp. To add up, I didn't like the face he wrote the book as a Nazi's son's point of view, a Jew's point of view would have really deal it with the reality, showing more fears and horrors.