Chapter 9

1. (pg95-96) How is Lt Kotler portrayed? Why is he portrayed this way? (remember that 'how' is asking about literary techniques)
   
   He is portrayed as being a man who is the most important person in the world because he wears his black polished boots. But when he isn't doing work for father he is outside talking to Gretel consiquently giving bruno the impression that there are two sides to Kotler in a way. He is portrayed in alliteration with the black boots.
   
   
2. What is Herr Liszt going to 'change' for Bruno? (98)
   
   He is going to change what Bruno is reading, and pretty much by doing s, change the way Bruno looks at life. He is sort of going to take away his imagination and by giving him books on history, it may possibly change or take away some of his innocence.
   
3. (100) What connection does Bruno make between the people in the camp and the people that come and visit his house all the time?
   
   He makes the connection that none of the people in pajamas ever come to visit them, only soldiers are seemingly allowed to come to his house. he also notices that the only person who he has seen up close in pajamas is Pavel,  and he just peels the potatoes.
   
4. What some of the things that Bruno begins to take notice of regarding the relationship between the soldiers and the people in 'pyjamas'?
   That the ones in uniforms are a lot more sharper than the ones in pyjamas and that the ones in pyjamas do what the ones in uniforms say.

Chapter 7

1. How is the mother's defence of Herr Roller entirely ironic?
   It's ironic because she is defending on innocent man, were she is surrounded by hundreds of Jews being tortured and killed, and she's doing nothing for them.
   
   
2. What role does Kotler represent historically in the novel? (think beyond being a soldier)
   
   Kotler represents the role of a typical man, who was bounded by the restraints of compulsorily warfare and forced to kill innocent people.
   
   
3. What character is Kotler juxtaposed with in this chapter? What effect does it have on understanding each of these characters?
   
    The Juxtaposition is in  this chapter is Bruno's childhood and Kotler's childhood. Bruno's childhood was happy, except there was a war going on and he didn't even realize whereas Kotler's was without war, a better childhood before the war where he didn't have to move because of his fathers work for the Germans
   
   
4. How would you compare the interaction Bruno has with Pavel to all the other interactions Bruno has had with adults?
   
   The interaction between Bruno and Pavel compared to the interactions between Kohler and Pavel are drastically different. Bruno treats Pavel like he treated Maria after hearing about her life and treats him like another person juxtaposed to how Kohler treats him. Kohler treats him like dirt, whereas Bruno treats Pavel like a good friend
   
   
5. Why is juxtaposition a key technique employed in Holocaust texts? How has it been used in The Boy in the Striped PJ's?
   
   Because in itself the Holocaust is a juxtaposition on one hand you have the mighty Germans who are the epitome of the perfect human. Whereas the Jews are poor and defenseless.