Author's+Purpose



Definition - The author's reason for creating a work. The purpose may be to explain or inform, entertain, persuade, or reveal an important truth.

The author's purpose for writing the story "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" was to entertain and, at times, to reveal important truths to the readers. This is because John Boyne wanted to reveal what happened on the other side of the fence, or in this case on the Jewish side. In the book they reveal truths by showing how at the end Bruno goes to the other side and finally realizes how different that side of the fence is like, and towards the beginning after Bruno and Shmuel meet and as they start to talk about each side of the fence and a reader realizes how terrible a place the concentration camps were. Also the author is entertaining readers by using a little boy who is making a new friend and is very naïve and unknowing as to what is going on during the Holocaust. The text shows how, at first, Bruno is happy and becomes sad and happy again after a few weeks pass. This was because he met Shmuel and they became friends. Although, the main reason for the author to write this book was to entertain its readers.