The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Chapter 17

'You call this work?’

• Bruno

• Gretel

• Mother

• Shmuel

‘Yes, I’ve often thought of that. It must have been very lonely for you at times.’

• Mother

• Bruno

• Gretel

• Shmuel

• Father

‘Oh Bruno!’

• Bruno

• Gretel

• Mother

• Father

• Shmuel

‘There are hundreds of children here’

• Gretel

• Bruno

• Father

• Shmuel

• Mother

‘When I think about it, perhaps she is right. Perhaps this is not a place for children’

• Bruno

• Gretel

• Mother

• Father

'Well, I’ve seen them’

• Mother

• Gretel

• Bruno

• Father

• Shmuel

‘He was here on Monday and then he went on work duty with some other men and none of them have come back’

• Bruno

• Gretel

• Mother

• Shmuel

• Father

‘And he hasn’t written you a letter?’

• Gretel

• Shmuel

• Father

• Bruno

• Mother

‘I did what you’re always talking about. I did some exploration.’

• Gretel

• Mother

• Bruno

• Father

• Shmuel

‘I don’t think the soldiers like us’

• Bruno

• Gretel

• Mother

• Shmuel

• Father