Boy in the Striped PJ's Chapter 4

• (pg 31) How does the author continue to use juxtaposition in regards to the two housing situations? (the Jews and Bruno's family) How the house is difference to the other. there was two sides of the house. its ironic because she shows that there is darkness in the house. it is also juxtaposition because she says that outside the garden "everything changed". 
• What is it about the children that makes it difficult to understand exactly what they see through the window and just how bad it is? Bruno describes it as a farm and then Gretel describes it as a sad place where no-one wants to live and under statement is used. they don't have the knowledge of an adult 
• Summarise how Gretel describes what she sees. She describes it a sad dead area where nothing lives and that no-one wants to live but where they live is very green and nice for a picnic or a place to read a book. she is a little bit like bruno because she is young and a little bit like an adult
• What does Gretel attempt to do when she sees the Concentration Camp? How does she attempt to understand what she sees? the children cannot understand what a concentration camp is. She attempts to see to see it as a dead place where nothing lives
• Is her attempt successful? Does she convince Bruno that she understands? What does she eventually give in to? What does she say/or not say? (pg 32) Her attempt was not successful and  she cannot convince Bruno about what she sees. What Gretel does not say is that she doesn't know what it is because she always wants to be right and smarter than Bruno, just like her father in to maria
• What can't the children do when they see the Concentration Camp that the adults seem to be able to do? Which group can understand what they see? Why do you think that this is the case? she cant express herself because she does not know what it is show doesn't understand the horrors that are going on. there is allot is rationalization by saying that it is good for them and their country and most other people just ignored it 
• How does the author use understatement through the children's description of the Concentration Camp? they describe it just how they see it and it heights it down because we know what happened in the camps