BISP Chapter 13

BISP Chapter 13

Mr. Fu

Open Ended

What do you notice from the passage?

Open Ended

Please read G139-141, B135-137.

After reading these three pages, please answer the following question: how does Boyne create suspense for us as readers in these three pages?

Remember that suspense is a feeling of being interested in what is happening in the text while not knowing what is going on.

Open Ended

Please read G142-146, B138-141.

After reading these five pages, please answer the following question: how would you describe the interaction/conversation between Bruno and Shmuel, and why?

Multiple Select

How does Boyne make this passage a dramatic one full of suspense?

• Boyne uses imagery of illness and distress to describe Pavel, which suggests that there is something terribly wrong with the situation

• Boyne uses contrast with Pavel’s previous description in Chapter 7, suggesting that there has been a drastic worsening in Pavel’s circumstances in Out-With since then

• Boyne uses repetition to emphasise how Pavel was struggling, while no one stepped in to help him or ask how he was

• Boyne uses the description of Bruno’s thoughts to indicate how drastic things were, such that Bruno would notice Pavel’s worsening condition

Open Ended

Please read G147-148, B143-144.

After reading these two pages, please answer the following question: how would you describe Bruno’s family relationship, and why?

Open Ended

Please read G149-153, B144-148.

After reading these five pages, please answer the following question: what is your impression of Nazi Germany as a place to live in, and why?

Multiple Select

Please read G153-154, B148-149. After reading these two pages, please answer the following question: how does Boyne make this a depressing moment in the text?

• Boyne uses repetition to emphasize all the positive traits of Pavel, which in turn emphasises to us how Kotler’s treatment of him was undeserved

• Boyne presents Bruno as simply accepting how things were at Out-With, suggesting that Bruno would not end up doing anything to improve the situation

• Boyne presents Bruno as only remembering that “one of [his three friends] was a ginger”, suggesting that Bruno was starting to have dementia

• Boyne presents Bruno as feeling like “His old life...seemed like a very distant memory”, suggesting that the past safety and security was “very distant” to Bruno now