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short and simple answer is that both Bruno and Shmuel are, in the end, just two little boys. The
entire Nazi doctrine was built around the belief that they were somehow inherently different,
but the friendship they build during the novel symbolizes, through a , that when it came down to
it, they were quite interchangeable. The Nazi guards had absolutely no way of determining that
Bruno didn't belong in the camp; the novel's bleak ending serves to show the absurdity of the
Nazi worldview.
The truth of the matter is that, while Bruno and Shmuel
became friends partly thanks to some...
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