Anthropology 2201F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: A Fable, Nuremberg Trials, Unit
19 Jul 2015
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John boyne, the boy in the striped pajamas. In this novel, john boyne addresses the subject of the holocaust from the point of view of a nine-year-old boy. Holocaust, it is not written primarily as an attempt to introduce the subject to children. Indeed, this novel assumes that readers already know much more about this era of history than bruno does. Boyne acknowledges this gap in his choice of narrative technique: in the reader"s. At this point in history, however, both of those generations are passing away even for the descendants of those who lived through it, the holocaust is now a historical event rather than a living memory. To write a novel about the holocaust is thus, in some ways, an act of presumption: presuming to tell a story that no one can truly understand who has not been through it.
