Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The by Boyne John

Author:Boyne, John [John Boyne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novel, Fiction, World War II
ISBN: 9781409097518
Publisher: RHCP
Published: 2006-01-29T02:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Shmuel Thinks of an Answer to Bruno’s Question

‘ALL I KNOW is this,’ began Shmuel. ‘Before we came here I lived with my mother and father and my brother Josef in a small flat above the store where Papa makes his watches. Every morning we ate our breakfast together at seven o’clock and while we went to school, Papa mended the watches that people brought to him and made new ones too. I had a beautiful watch that he gave me but I don’t have it any more. It had a golden face and I wound it up every night before I went to sleep and it always told the right time.’

‘What happened to it?’ asked Bruno.

‘They took it from me,’ said Shmuel.

‘Who?’

‘The soldiers, of course,’ said Shmuel as if this was the most obvious thing in the world.

‘And then one day things started to change,’ he continued. ‘I came home from school and my mother was making armbands for us from a special cloth and drawing a star on each one. Like this.’ Using his finger he drew a design in the dusty ground beneath him.

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