Language

John Boyne uses very simple language in his novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which makes the story authentic, since it is written from the point of view of a nine-year-old boy. For this reason, the sentence structure is very straightforward. As a result, the reader is led through the text with a childlike, naive narrative style. 

The literal speech is almost always presented directly. In addition, the entire novel is written in the past tense. This, too, is part of the overall concept of this novel, since the narrator explains at the end that the events are already far in the past. Some linguistic and stylistic peculiarities stand out.

Bruno's mispronunciation

Although Bruno is already nine years old, he mispronounces the words related to Nazism. Instead of talking about the Führer, he talks about the "Fury". This makes stylistic sense, since Bruno has supposedly never heard of the Führer and does not know what...