In this last section Bruno finally sees his friend Shmuel on his side of the fence, in fact, he was in his house. That is because Lieutenant Kotler told him to clean the glasses for the party they were having for Father's birthday. When Bruno saw him in his kitchen he know that something was not right with him being there however he was happy that there was not a fence separating them. When Bruno offered him some food, Shmuel continued to say no, because he knew that he would get in trouble, however Bruno felt that there was no way that he could get in trouble by a man like Kotler, who did not own the house. For that reason he shoved the food into Shmuel's hand; Shmuel hesitated but after looking at the door to make sure no one was there, he shoved the food in his mouth and gulped it down in a matter of seconds. not too long after that, while the boys were talking Kotler walked into the kitchen and asked Shmuel if he was talking to Bruno instead of doing what he was told to do. He then went closer to Shmuel's face and asked if he had been eating, and he stole food from the refrigerator. Shmuel said no, and that his friend Bruno had given it to him. When asked if Shmuel was his friend and if they have ever spoken, Bruno denied everything and was sent out of the kitchen. Bruno felt so ashamed of what he had done that after a few days of not seeing Shmuel he apologised for being such a bad friend; Shmuel forgave him although he had a black eye.
In this last section there were some changes. Kotler no longer worked there, he was sent away to another camp. Grandmother died, and according to father, Grandfather had become senile. Gretel no longer played with dolls, in fact she threw all of them away and focused more on the news. She didn't pay mind to Bruno any longer, which slowly made Bruno thing she wasn't a Hopeless case any longer. He actually had a conversation with her, in which he found out that the people on the other side of the fence are Jews, the opposites, which is them, do not like. The two groups did not get along and according to Gretel there was no way of changing that. The biggest change that occurred was that mother was becoming less fond of this new place she had been living in for more than a year. She slept more, and was getting depressed. However, what made her speak up was the fact that both Gretel and Bruno had gotten lice. Bruno cried when they cut his hair. He now looked like his Shmuel, and now that they had something else in common, Bruno had to leave. Mother had had it, and wanted to go back to Berlin. At first father did not agree with her decision and was not going to allow it, but when Bruno told him that he could see the hundreds of kids from his window father felt it was, just as mother had said, a place that was not for the kids. although Bruno couldn't see the hundreds of kids from his window he know this was true because he had been talking to Shmuel every day for more than a year. They became very close, and Bruno did not want to leave now.
After a few days without seeing Shmuel, he told him that he was leaving. Shmuel also dropped some horrible news, which was that his father was missing, and is no where to be found, although he had done some exploring. Both boys then realized that they only had a few days left with each other, and that they had never played together as normal friends do. Then Bruno devised a plan. Because he now looked like a fatter version of Shmuel, because he was bald just like him and all the other people on that side of the fence, Bruno was to come back the next day and change into a pair of stripped pajamas that Shmuel was to bring him. Then after doing so he was going to go under the fence on to the other side, and see how Shmuel's side was, play with him, and search for his father. The next day, although there was a lot of rain, They met up by the fence and did what they had panned. After searching and seeing how miserable these people were Bruno felt it was time for him to go home. Right there and then, the soldiers decided that a group of the Jews begin to march. Bruno and Shmuel happened to be in that group. After the march they were pushed into a dark room. Bruno was never seen since then. Mother moved back to Berlin with Gretel in hopes of finding her son waiting for on the steps of the house. Father was hated by all the other soldiers because he bossed them around so much, and every night he went to sleep he thought of Bruno. One day he remembered of an area where he did not close the fence properly, and he went straight to it, and there was all of Bruno's clothes.
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Quote:"As it turned our, all the things that he thought might be there - weren't"(Boyne 207).
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Here, Bruno had realized that all that he had imagine to be on Shmuel's side of the fence was wrong. He noticed that the life that Shmuel was living was worse than his. I think this was like a small lesson, because in the beginning he was so angry about where he live and felt that it was os unfair that Shmuel had many friends his age living with him, without understanding why Shmuel did not like it at all, but now he knows why.
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