Essay --

A true fri decease is someone you can confide in without fear of being judged or betrayed... It is always good to realize a friend in whom you can confide. A true friend is a good listener one with whom you can share your thoughts and feelings without worrying whether they will judge you or tell other people about you. You should be able to swear a friend, particularly when you are in need of someone to share your problems with..... In The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, Bruno, the main instance is in need of a good friend. He is unhappy, having being forced to move away from his home in Berlin and his three best friends for life because his gravel has a new job. Bruno, his mother and sister accompany the new commandant to the new house at Out-With, as Bruno calls it. This new house is small, dark, and strange. Bruno spends long geezerhood gazing out the window of his new bedroom, where he notices people dressed in striped pyjamas and rows of barracks surrounded by a barbed wire fence. With nobody yet his sister The Hopeless Case to talk to, bored and lonely, and not really understanding the circumstance of his new existence, Bruno sets out to explore the area, despite being veto to do so by his parents. He discovers Shmuel, a very thin Jewish boy who lives on the other side of the fence and an unlikely acquaintance between the two boys is formed. Over the next few months the two children swap life stories through the wire fence. Shmuel explains how he and his family have been transported here from a ghetto in Poland. Unable to comprehend the gravity of Shmuels situation, Bruno is simply content to have found a playmate. In particular he finds it amazing that they are the corresponding age and born on exactly th... ...d hegathers himself and makes a clear decision to face his fear in order to help his friend.... Even when the two boys have been herded into the gas chambers about to face their death, Bruno stands by his friend, holdi ng Shmuels hand, forgetting even the names of his friends in Berlin and saying that Shmuel is one true friend for life. To conclude, Bruno and Shmuels friendship is both strange and genuine. Bruno confides in Shmuel, at first, because he is lonely and innocent. However as the novel develops their friendship grows into something authentic which crosses the boundaries of race, religion and culture. Over the conformation of the novel there are times when the friendship is tested, threatened and almost betrayed but Bruno and Shmuel remain true to their friendship even in the darkest and devastating of endings...At the end they died together...