What literary elements are found in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and how do they make the story more relatable for the reader? What similarities and differences can be found between The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne and Inside the Walls by Eddie Klein?

Boyne's novel is in the third-person point-of-view of Bruno, following the thoughts and views of a young boy. Bruno's ignorance as a child is conveyed in a relatable way using terms like "the Fury" (Führer/Hitler) and "Out-With" (Auschwitz), which both function as symbols. Bruno and Shmuel both associate the Fury with disrupted family life, though in vastly different ways. Bruno's mispronunciation of Auschwitz is actually demonstrative of the camp's function: to take Jews, Communists, homosexuals, gypsies, and other minorities out of society. "Out-With" thus symbolizes imprisonment and mass murder. The theme of family and friendship is also relatable through Bruno's struggle with a domineering older sister, his pride for his father, Shmuel's, search for his own father, and the strong friendship between Bruno and Shmuel.
While The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a work of fiction, Inside the Walls follows Eddie Klein's real-life experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. Boyne's story takes place in and around the Auschwitz complex, while Klein's novel contains many settings: Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sosnowiec labor camp, Mauthausen concentration camp, Gunskirchen, a hospital in Austria, Italy, Israel, and Montreal. The events of Boyne's novel take place around 1943 and 1944, whereas Klein's storyline ranges from the 1930s to the late 1960s. A very crucial difference is the fact that Boyne's novel is in the German perspective of the Holocaust— featuring ignorance, complicity, and nationalism—while Klein's novel focuses on the suffering and loss under the same regime. Both novels highlight isolation and imprisonment through fences and barbed wire enclosures, but in opposite perspectives.