Boy in the Striped PJ's Chapter 4

• (pg 31) How does the author continue to use juxtaposition in regards to the two housing situations? (the Jews and Bruno's family) Juxtaposition is used as Bruno is complaining about his house in Auschwitz with maids, and chefs where as the Jews live in a large shed with concrete and hay/thin mattress beds, getting hardly no food, and having to work themselfs to death, and bieng killded  for no reason
• What is it about the children that makes it difficult to understand exactly what they see through the window and just how bad it is? The children don't think that people would or could do this sort of thing to one and other so they come to the conclusion that they must be farmers.
• Summarise how Gretel describes what she sees. Gretel thinks that she sees a community of farmers who are actually the Jewish prisoners and she thinks that they live in the huts that she sees though Bruno window. 
• What does Gretel attempt to do when she sees the Concentration Camp? How does she attempt to understand what she sees?  Gretel attempts to think as hard as she can by narrowing her eyes and think of every possible solution to the question at hand as she thinks she is smart enough to solve this problem 
• Is her attempt successful? Does she convince Bruno that she understands? What does she eventually give in to? What does she say/or not say? (pg 32) She is succesful in convincing Bruno that it must be a farm as Bruno thinks she is right as she is the older sibling. 
• What can't the children do when they see the Concentration Camp that the adults seem to be able to do? Which group can understand what they see? Why do you think that this is the case? There is a large difference between what children think and what adults think. Gretel thinks that  she should stay clear of them because of where they live and there apperence, where as the adults are fully aware of the situation at hand, so stay away from them because that is what they have been brainwashed to believe.
• How does the author use understatement through the children's description of the Concentration Camp? The authour focus less on the facts and more on what the children think and see.