The boy in the striped PJ's chapter 4-what they saw through the window

The author continues to use juxtaposition by telling the description of both the houses by using similes and many other word techniques: It shows that Bruno's family is very small while the Jews family contains many people

The reason why the children find it difficult to understand about what they see through the window because like the people in the POW, they are not children but people of all ages and the children think they are like big boys, little boys, fathers, grandfathers and maybe uncles.

Gretel described the camp by saying that it is a nasty and horrible looking place because this is from a rich person's point of view (huts only have one floor, barbed wire all over.)

What Gretel attempts to do is to try and think what the place was. She tries to understand what she was looking at.

Her attempt was not successful as Bruno was not convinced that she understands and so Gretel gave up saying that this is not the countryside and that this is not a holiday home.

The children can't see that the people in the camp are Jews and are the lesser race in the Germans point of view. The group that can understand would be the soldiers and the people today. I think that this is the case because they are children and are not old enough to learn about the Jews.

The author uses the understatement using the children by describing the POW camp and how the Jews are like.