介绍： 《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》由爱尔兰编剧、制片人约翰·伯恩创作。八岁男孩布鲁诺一家随着纳粹军官父亲的一纸调令，由柏林搬迁到乡下，布鲁诺偷偷结识了铁丝网另一边的同龄男孩施穆尔，并时常带给他食物吃，施穆尔是布鲁诺惟一的朋友。一天布鲁诺决定，要去铁丝网的另一边帮施穆尔找到他的父亲……

【Chapter Seventeen：Mother Gets Her O...

介绍： 《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》由爱尔兰编剧、制片人约翰·伯恩创作。八岁男孩布鲁诺一家随着纳粹军官父亲的一纸调令，由柏林搬迁到乡下，布鲁诺偷偷结识了铁丝网另一边的同龄男孩施穆尔，并时常带给他食物吃，施穆尔是布鲁诺惟一的朋友。一天布鲁诺决定，要去铁丝网的另一边帮施穆尔找到他的父亲……

【Chapter Seventeen：Mother Gets Her Own Way】

Over the course of the next few weeks Mother seemed increasingly unhappy with life at OutWith and Bruno understood perfectly well why that might be. After all, when they'd first arrived he had hated it, due to the fact that it was nothing like home and lacked such things as three best friends for life. But that had changed for him over time, mostly due to Shmuel, who had become more important to him than Karl or Daniel or Martin had ever been. But Mother didn't have a Shmuel of her own. There was no one for her to talk to, and the only person who she had been remotely friendly with—the young Lieutenant Kotler—had been transferred somewhere else.

Although he tried not to be one of those boys who spends his time listening at keyholes and down chimneys, Bruno was passing by Father's office one afternoon while Mother and Father were inside having one of their conversations. He didn't mean to eavesdrop, but they were talking quite loudly and he couldn't help but overhear.

'It's horrible,' Mother was saying. 'Just horrible. I can't stand it any more.'

'We don't have any choice,' said Father. 'This is our assignment and—'

'No, this is your assignment,' said Mother. 'Your assignment, not ours. You stay if you want to.'

'And what will people think,' asked Father, 'if I permit you and the children to return to Berlin without me? They will ask questions about my commitment to the work here.'

'Work?' shouted Mother. 'You call this work?'

Bruno didn't hear much more because the voices were getting closer to the door and there was always a chance that Mother would come storming out in search of a medicinal sherry, so he ran back upstairs instead. Still, he had heard enough to know that there was a chance they might be returning to Berlin, and to his surprise he didn't know how to feel about that.

There was one part of him that remembered that he had loved his own life back there, but so many things would have changed by now. Karl and the other two best friends whose names he couldn't remember would probably have forgotten about him by now. Grandmother was dead and they almost never heard from Grandfather, who Father said had gone senile.

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