I thought that I would enjoy the point of view of a child. But interestingly enough, Bruno's point of view irks me a bit. Although it is understandable that Bruno does not know what is occurring in Auschwitz, it annoys me that he doesn't realize how bad things are for Shmuel. Bruno asks him naive questions like if he and the other boys play or not or if Bruno could come under the fence and play with him.
Sometimes the timeline of the story confuses me because it jumps around a lot, very much like Things Fall Apart and A Long Way Gone. I didn't realize that chapter 11 occured in the past until the end of the chapter where it said that this where the story began. It is interesting that Bruno finds Hitler to be a rude and mean person. When he comes for dinner, he is quite condescending towards everyone, which I guess, you could expect Hitler to be.
Bruno also does not have a good idea of the world outside of Berlin and what is happening. It is interesting when Bruno says that Germany is the most superior country in the world because that directly shows what was being taught to children in Germany. Children were being raised to become the so-called "Hitler Youth" to continue Hitler's beliefs.
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Though Bruno's naivety annoys me too, there is really no other way for the author to write it. If Bruno understood what had happened to Shmuel, it would detract from the way the story is told, and not have the powerful ending that the book does.
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