| From the back of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) and sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope that you never have to encounter one. |
Of course all this happened a long time ago and nothing like that could ever happen again. Not in this day and age. "See Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoes All of the other food, meat, fish, vegetables Were shipped out of the country under armed guard To England while the Irish people starved And then on the middle of all this They gave us money not to teach our children Irish And so we lost our history And this is what I think is still hurting me And if there ever is gonna be healing There has to be remembering and then grieving So that there then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and understanding" (O'Connor). | |