A key
symbol is contained within the novel's title. Bruno describes the uniform worn by the prisoners
of Auschwitz as "striped pajamas." In the Nazi's most
deathly concentration camp, prisoners who were not selected for the gas chambers were starved,
beaten, and dying of disease, forced to do manual labor while living in near-suffocatingly
cramped barracks and unclean conditions. Bruno's mistaking the uniforms for pajamas represents
his innocence, as he does not know the camp's true deathly function.
Bruno
crosses the fence and puts on a uniform that Shmuel gives him in order to search for
Shmuel's...
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