Chapter 14: Bruno Tells a Perfectly Reasonable Lie

(150-1) What information do we get that makes the reader start to feel that he is becoming less innocent and more ignorant? When Bruno sneaks out through the back of the house and finally Bruno is there waiting for him He does not ask if he is okay he just says that he is sorry and he only said it because the soldier is so scary.

(151-3) What is interesting about the weather and how does it relate to the overall emotion of this stage in the book? The current weather relates to the emotion in the book because pavel has probably just been killed or really badly injured and Schmul is also bruised and upset at Bruno because of what he did

(153) What does Bruno accidentally say to Gretel? Bruno accidentally says to gretel that he has a friend but then he says that they are imaginary.

(155) What is it that motivates Bruno not to tell Gretel the truth? How does this portray Bruno as being selfish? Bruno is motivated not to tell the truth because he does not want to get in trouble from Gretel, mother and father or possibly just doesn't want gretel to become friends with Schmul as well. Bruno is selfish because either he doesn't want to get in trouble or he doesn't want to share his only friend with his sister

(158) What is it that Bruno realises when he starts recounting what Shmuel tells him? Why do you think that this is when he finally starts to realise what Shmuel is experiencing?

(159) What is ironic and hypocritical about what Gretel tells Bruno regarding imaginary friends? It is ironic and hypocritical that Gretel tells Bruno about his imaginary friends because just a couple of weeks ago she had hundreds of dolls and gretel would talk to then and interact with then but they were not real but she was telling bruno not to have them