The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Literary Analysis

A conflict is a serious disagreement. Everyone in their life will have a conflict they have to face. People respond to conflicts differently, for example in the story “Diary of Anne Frank”, she dealt with her conflict of hiding in secret for nazis by writing in her diary. In the story “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” Burno faced his conflict of living somewhere that he disliked by talking to a friend he made named shmuel. In “Dear Miss Breed”, kids at the internment camps also dealt with their conflict by writing to an librarian their situation. As you can see these people responded to their conflict by having some type of emotional outlet.

One reason why having an emotional outlet is the best way to respond to conflict is that it can make you not feel alone and isolated . For example in the book the “Boy in the striped pajamas”, on page 60 it says, “He remebered how much fun they use to have back in berlin and he realized how lonely he had been at out-with.” This shows that an emotional outlet helped showed Burno how he felt alone until now that he was talking to shmuel. On website betterhealth.vic.gov.ua it says “talking to someone can help you find out your not alone in the situation.” Overall when you’re in a conflict it is helpful to have an emotional outlet to not …show more content…
It says on page 49 “In her first letter from Poston, Louise tries hard to hold on to her rosey view of the world.” Writing to Mrs. Breed made Louise name things that positive even though she was at Poston Relocation center. Writing helped Louise have a positive aditude in her conflict. To clarify on rochester.edu, it states “journaling is an opportunity for positive self talks and identifying negative thoughts.” Clearly this shows that by having an emotional outlet like journaling has benefits to help you respond to your