Summary of 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'

When nine-year-old Bruno comes home from school one day, he finds the maid, Maria, packing up all his belongings. He tries to remember if he has done anything naughty in the past few days that would warrant him being sent away as a punishment. He asks his mother, what is going on. He is somewhat relieved to notice that her things are being packed, too, by the Butler.

Bruno’s mother goes into the large dining room, where the Fury, had come to dinner the week before. She tells him that the whole family will be going on “a great adventure.”

Mother explains that the Fury has “big things in mind” for his father and is sending him to a place where there is a very important job waiting for him. Bruno has never really known what his father does, unlike his friends.

Bruno don’t like that the family is moving so fare a way, and that their house in Berlin is being closed up for now. Bruno won’t be able to return to school, and he won’t be able to see his friends.

Gretel’s day:

Gretel started her day by eating breakfast she ate some bread with marmalade on and went to school where she had some different classes throughout the day, she started the day with some domestic science were they had to learn how to cook some different traditional German dishes, that they then ate for lunch, after lunch they had German were they learned about gramma and typical gramma mistakes and then they were off. She got home from school around two pm, were she came home to see the maid Maria pack all of her thing down, she was a confused about why she was packing her things, and then her mom explained to her that they had to move because her father got a relocated to somewhere faraway outside Berlin, and that they all had to come with him. She was happy because she liked him, and she wanted to make him happy. Then her father came home, and she congratulated him and then they all had dinner together.