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 Fourteen：Bruno Tells a Perf...

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 Fourteen：Bruno Tells a Perfectly Reasonable Lie】

For several weeks after this Bruno continued to leave the house when Herr Liszt had gone home for the day and Mother was having one of her afternoon naps, and made the long trek along the fence to meet Shmuel, who almost every afternoon was waiting there for him, sitting cross-legged on the ground, staring at the dust beneath him.

One afternoon Shmuel had a black eye, and when Bruno asked him about it he just shook his head and said that he didn't want to talk about it. Bruno assumed that there were bullies all over the world, not just in schools in Berlin, and that one of them had done this to Shmuel. He felt an urge to help his friend but he couldn't think of anything he could do to make it better, and he could tell that Shmuel wanted to pretend it had never happened.

Every day Bruno asked Shmuel whether he would be allowed to crawl underneath the wire so that they could play together on the other side of the fence, but every day Shmuel said no, it wasn't a good idea.

'I don't know why you're so anxious to come across here anyway,' said Shmuel. 'It's not very nice.'

'You haven't tried living in my house,' said Bruno. 'For one thing it doesn't have five floors, only three. How can anyone live in so small a space as that?' He'd forgotten Shmuel's story about the eleven people all living in the same room together before they had come to Out-With, including the boy Luka who kept hitting him even when he did nothing wrong.

One day Bruno asked why Shmuel and all the other people on that side of the fence wore the same striped pyjamas and cloth caps.

'That's what they gave us when we got here,' explained Shmuel. 'They took away our other clothes.'

'But don't you ever wake up in the morning and feel like wearing something different? There must be something else in your wardrobe.'

Shmuel blinked and opened his mouth to say something but then thought better of it.

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