Does Bruno Get Gassed?

In the end to The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, both Bruno and Shmuel enter into a gas chamber in the concentration camp and are killed. This happens shortly after Bruno joins Shmuel in the camp, and the moment before the boys are gassed, Bruno tells Shmuel that he is his best friend.

Who is responsible for Bruno's death?

No one individual is completely responsible for Bruno's death in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. However, his father, as commandant of Auschwitz, should take most of the blame.

What were Bruno's last words?

And unlike Galileo, he not only didn't fear torture and death, but his last words on the subject —literally his last words on the subject, (spoken to his tormentors just after they had sentenced him)— were defiant: "Perhaps you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it."

James H. Sterling

James H. Sterling

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