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 Ten：The Dot That Became a S...

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 Ten：The Dot That Became a Speck That Became a Blob That Became a Figure That Became a Boy】

The walk along the fence took Bruno a lot longer than he expected; it seemed to stretch on and on for several miles. He walked and walked, and when he looked back the house that he was living in became smaller and smaller until it vanished from sight altogether. During all this time he never saw anyone anywhere close to the fence; nor did he find any doors to let him inside, and he started to despair that his exploration was going to be entirely unsuccessful. In fact although the fence continued as far as the eye could see, the huts and buildings and smoke stacks were disappearing in the distance behind him and the fence seemed to be separating him from nothing but open space.

After walking for the best part of an hour and starting to feel a little hungry, he thought that maybe that was enough exploration for one day and it would be a good idea to turn back. However, just at that moment a small dot appeared in the distance and he narrowed his eyes to try to see what it was. Bruno remembered a book he had read in which a man was lost in the desert and because he hadn't had any food or water for several days had started to imagine that he saw wonderful restaurants and enormous fountains, but when he tried to eat or drink from them they disappeared into nothingness, just handfuls of sand. He wondered whether that was what was happening to him now.

But while he was thinking this his feet were taking him, step by step, closer and closer to the dot in the distance, which in the meantime had become a speck, and then began to show every sign of turning into a blob. And shortly after that the blob became a figure. And then, as Bruno got even closer, he saw that the thing was neither a dot nor a speck nor a blob nor a figure, but a person.

In fact it was a boy.

Bruno had read enough books about explorers to know that one could never be sure what one was going to find. Most of the time they came across something interesting that was just sitting there, minding its own business, waiting to be discovered (such as America). Other times they discovered something that was probably best left alone (like a dead mouse at the back of a cupboard).

The boy belonged to the first category. He was just sitting there, minding his own business, waiting to be discovered.

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