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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas :

WORKSHEET FOR CHAPTER 2

Instructions:

Exploring SettingIn this chapter, we are going to look at the Brunos new home, Out-With (the new houseis given this name in Chapter 3) and compare it to his former home in Berlin. What arethe differences between them and what do the differences imply?

Differences between the house in Berlinand Out

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SettingDetails

House in Berlin Out-With

1 LocationPg _______

SignificanceOf Location

2StreetSceneoutside thehousePg _______

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Significanceof Street

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3 SizePg _______

Significanceof Size ofHouses

What is the main significance of how the 2 places are being set?

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TEACHERS EDITION - Possible Answers

Differences between the house in Berlin and Out-With.Setting

Details

House in Berlin Out-With

1 LocationPg 11

- Stood on a quiet street- Alongside other big

houses (always nice tolook at)

- Other boys live in themwhom he played with

- Stood all on its own in anempty, desolate place

- There were no otherhouses anywhere to beseen

- Which meant there wouldbe no other familiesaround and no other boysto play with, neitherfriends nor trouble

SignificanceOf Location

- Sense of belonging to alarger community

- Sense of disconnectionfrom the world

2StreetSceneoutside thehouse

Pg 12, 13

- When you walkedtowards the centre oftown there were alwayspeople strolling alongand stopping to

chat...or rushingaround

- There were shops withbright store fronts, andfruit and vegetablestalls with big trayspiled high withcabages

- Feeling his head growdizzy with the mixedscents of sweetness

and life

- there were no otherstreets around the house

- no one strolling along orrushing around, anddefinitely no shops or fruit

and vegetable stalls- everything around him

just felt empty and cold,as if he was in theloneliest place in theworld

- the middle of nowhere

Significanceof StreetScene

- sense of home,neighbourliness, life

- sense of isolation,coldness, emptiness,lifelessness

- Enormous- Despite knowing the

house from birth, he

- Had only three floors (topfloor, ground floor,basement)

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3 SizePg 11, 12

was still able to findnooks and crannies thathe hadnt fully finishedexploring

- There were even wholeroomsthat he hadbarely been inside

Significanceof Size ofHouses

- Implies freedom, easeof movement, perhapssense of happiness

- Implies limitation ofmovement, stiflingenvironment

What is the main significance of how the 2 places are being set?

This is a technique of foreshadowing in which the author is preparing hisreaders for the life to come for Bruno (and perhaps his family). For Bruno, hisnormalcy will be taken away from him and in its place something lessoptimistic is taking over.

*At this point time, there is not much to say about what is taking over. This,however, will be seen clearer as the novel progresses.