English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: A Fable

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2033E
• Professor: Clarissa Suranyi

Document Summary

Unit eleven john boyne, the boy in the striped pajamas: boyne addresses the subject of the holocaust from the point of view of a 9-year-old boy. This is a book about a child, but it is not written primarily as an attempt to introduce the subject to children. This novel assumes that readers know more about the era than. To write a novel about the holocaust is an act of presumption: presuming to tell a story that no one can truly understand who has not been through it. With(cid:863) (cid:449)ith aus(cid:272)h(cid:449)itz, (cid:271)ut i(cid:374) (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) ways, this is not an accurate representation of. It is unlikely that a child as young as shmuel would have been there. The fence is also inaccurate, it was electrified and there was no possibility of crawling under it. These inaccuracies are necessities of the plot, they call attention to the fact that the e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts of this (cid:271)ook (cid:272)ould (cid:374)ot ha(cid:448)e happe(cid:374)ed i(cid:374) (cid:396)eal life.