The Boy in The Stripped Pijamas is a book thats based on world war II, where the an 8 year old living in Berlin to take residence near a concentration camp, witch his father was just going to be the commandant. Bruno was sad, he didn’t wanted to live his friends and house, Bruno alone at his home one day he looked at his window and saw the concentration camp but he didin’t know what was it, he wondered why the big chimneys smelled so bad and why was everyone wearing pijamas, one day he decided to go explore, he found the camp, bruno realized that near the fence was a boy, looking sad, but what bruno was most intrigued about was that he was wearing striped pijamas. he asked was his name was at first he was quiet and didn’t say a word but after time he told him his name Shmuel, Shmuel and Bruno became friends and every chance bruno had he went to see Shmuel.
“We’re not supposed to be friends, you and me. We’re meant to be enemies. Did you know that?” (p. #)
This quotation’s meaning is that Bruno and Shmuel are from different worlds, Shmuel was jewish and Bruno was the son of a Nazi, more specific the son of the concentration camp commandant. So Brunos dad is all against jewish people witch exactly Shmuel happens to be jewish, that is why Bruno bruno says they aren’t supposed to be friends they are men’t to be enemies, because all of the bad things brunos dad has told him about jewish people.