Blog entry #2

In the last couple of chapters that I have since my last post only one stunning revelation has been exposed. After Bruno looked out the window and saw what he saw, he didn't take it as a big deal, and instead casually mentioned it to his sister. After he told her, Bruno brought his older sister Gretel into his room and told her to look out the window. Even his sister wasn't able to fully comprehend what was going on behind the fence that is described as, "...a huge wire fence that ran along the length of the house and turned in at the top...the fence was very high, higher even than the house they were standing in...at the top of the fence enormous bales of barbed wire were tangled in spirals."(p. 31-32). Already you are able to tell that the tide has changed, and you are able to infer that whatever is beyond the fence is something much like a prison. At the end of my reading Bruno and Gretel come to the conclusion that whatever is beyond that fence is something that they didn't want to be near. However, Bruno still doesn't quite understand that it is a concentration camp, I can tell because he looked at all of the prisoners and noticed they were all wearing striped pajamas and said to himself, "How extraordinary."(p. 38). I have inferred that Bruno will approach whatever is behind his house behind the mysterious fence, because he doesn't understand the dangerousness of what is going on, and is clearly fascinated about the people behind his new home. I do wonder if Bruno will try to make contact with the people he has seen, and if so what will be the outcome of it all. Will he be in true danger? Will he get in serious trouble? I am not sure what will happen, but I do believe that Bruno will try to go near the fence. I believe this because firstly, he is a nine year old boy who has his curiosities, secondly he is described as adventurous almost earlier on in the book. I think that these characteristics will leave him wanting to figure out just what is going behind his new house.