Chapter 7 Quotes. Related Themes: Innocence and Ignorance. Page Number and Citation : 82 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Chapter 13 Quotes. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7. Bruno asks Kotler if there are any spare tires around the house. Kotler makes Pavel , an old man who now waits on the family, take Bruno to find a tire Pavel , who has been keeping an eye on him from the kitchen window, comes out and He tells her how Pavel brought him inside when he fell, and how he bandaged his wound. Mother looks uncomfortable, Chapter 9. The servants keep the house neat, and do so in near silence.
Pavel continues to come and peel the vegetables before dinner is cooked, and Bruno catches him Chapter Bruno asks Maria about Pavel , and inquires why he works as a waiter if he is really a doctor. Lieutenant Kotler, who had joined the family for dinner, said he had always preferred the social sciences over the arts despite the fact that his father was a literature professor. Father dropped the subject, implying he would continue the conversation with Lieutenant Kotler later in private.
SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Themes Motifs Symbols. Important Quotes Explained. Book Full Book Quiz. Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics. Summary Chapters 13— Page 1 Page 2. Summary: Chapter 13 As the weeks passed, Bruno realized his family would not return to Berlin anytime soon. Bruno is frightened by the tension but also enjoys Father speaking harshly to Lieutenant Kotler.
At that moment, Pavel uncorks a new bottle of wine and accidentally spills it on Lieutenant Kotler because his hands are shaking. Lieutenant Kotler reacts very angrily and violently, although the details of his actions against Pavel are not revealed. Bruno goes to bed extremely upset about what happened to Pavel. Several more weeks pass and Bruno continues to visit Shmuel when Herr Liszt leaves after their lesson. One afternoon, Shmuel has a black eye but refuses to talk about it.
Every day, Bruno asks if he can come over to the other side of the fence to play with Shmuel, but Shmuel always says it's not a good idea. He tells Bruno that the "striped pajamas" are the uniform he and the other prisoners were given when they arrived at Out-With.
Bruno's lack of awareness is evident in his suggestion that Shmuel should just choose to wear something else when he wakes up in the morning, but Shmuel doesn't explain to him why that would be impossible. One day it is raining too hard for Bruno to go outside. He is lying on his bed reading when Gretel comes into his room, bored.
He accidentally mentions Shmuel to her and quickly covers his mistake by telling her that he is referring to his imaginary friend. In order to sell his lie, he remembers a time when Grandmother had walked in on him while he was going to the bathroom and other embarrassing moments so that his face will turn red.
It works, and Gretel begins to make fun of him for having an imaginary friend. Bruno takes the opportunity to talk about Shmuel, now that he has made sure Gretel believes the boy is imaginary. Bruno tells Gretel about how all of Shmuel's friends with whom he used to play "disappeared without even saying goodbye to him" He goes on and tells her that yesterday, Shmuel told him that his grandfather has been missing for days and that whenever he asks his father about it, his father begins to cry and hugs him.
As he describes what Shmuel has told him to Gretel, Bruno begins to feel guilty for not comforting Shmuel when his friend was telling him these things. Instead, he had changed the subject because he had felt uncomfortable. He decides to apologize for his callousness when he sees Shmuel the next day. Gretel advises Bruno to stop talking to his imaginary friend.
She tells him it indicates he is going crazy, but he tells her he doesn't want to stop. Gretel reassures him she won't tell anyone about his imaginary friend, and teasingly tells him she has her own. When he asks her if she's telling the truth, she scoffs, "I can't afford to act like a child, even if you can" and leaves the room. Bruno hears her talking to her dolls in her own room. He loses interest in his book and stares out the window at the rain, wondering about Shmuel.
In Chapter Thirteen, Boyne uses the technique of omitting information. Just as Maria sits down with Bruno in the kitchen and says, "All right This is as much as I know" , the scene ends and the reader picks back up with Bruno arriving to meet Shmuel later that day. This achieves a sense of vagueness around Pavel's life - he is representative of the many Jews who were torn from their professions and brought to concentration camps, so his story could be anyone's.
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