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  1. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    But what about school?' said Bruno, interrupting her, a thing he knew he was not supposed to do but which he felt he would be forgiven for on this occasion. 'And what about Karl and Daniel and Martin? How will they know where I am when we want to do things together?
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  2. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    Bruno thought about this and frowned. He wasn't particularly bothered if Gretel was being sent away because she was a Hopeless Case and caused nothing but trouble for him. But it seemed a little unfair that they all had to go with her.
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  3. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    Those people … well, they're not people at all,
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  4. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    Shmuel blinked and shook his head. It was quite extraordinary. If it wasn't for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it would have been difficult to tell them apart. It was almost {Shmuel thought} as if they were all exactly the same really.
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  5. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    But they'd never once invited any of the striped pajama people to dinner.
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  6. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    I'm asking you, if we're not Jews, what are we instead?' 'We're the opposite,
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  7. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    After all, the great joy of literature, as opposed to politics or religion, is that it embraces differing opinions, it encourages debate, it allows us to have heated conversations with our closest friends and dearest loved ones and through it all no one gets hurt, no one gets taken away from their homes and no one gets killed.
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  8. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.' Bruno
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  9. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    approached and sometimes they fell to the ground and sometimes they didn't even get up and had to be carried away instead. It's funny that I've never wondered about those people, Bruno thought. And it's funny that when you think of all the times the soldiers go over there – and he had
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  10. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    The New House
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  11. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    Bruno. 'In Berlin we had a big house with five floors if you counted the
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  12. John Boyne _ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    I'm reading,' said Bruno. 'What are you reading?' she asked him, and rather than answer he simply turned the cover towards her so she could see for herself. She made a raspberry sound through her lips and some of her spit landed on Bruno's face. 'Boring,' she said in a sing-song voice. 'It's not boring at all,' said Bruno. 'It's an adventure. It's better than dolls, that's for sure.' Gretel didn't rise to the bait on that one. 'What are you doing?' she repeated, irritating Bruno even further. 'I told you, I'm trying to read,' he said in a grumpy voice. 'If some people would just let me.' 'I've got nothing to do,' she replied. 'I hate the rain.' Bruno found this hard to understand. It wasn't as if she ever did anything anyway, unlike him, who had adventures and
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