What first assumption does Bruno make as to why they are packing?

In href="">The
Boy in the Striped Pajamas by href="">John
Boyne, theis a young boy named Bruno. Bruno and his family leave their home in Berlin
to move to Auschwitz, where Brunos father is the camp commandant. Prior to
the move, he enters his house in Berlin and sees that the servants are packing his belongs.
Bruno initially assumes that he is being sent away from home as a punishment.

He asks his mother, What's going on? Why is Maria going through my things? His mother
responds that Maria is packing Brunos belongings. The author then explains Brunos
thoughts:

Packing them?" he asked, running quickly
through the events of the previous few days to consider whether he'd been particularly naughty
or had used those words out loud that he wasn't allowed to use and was being sent away because
of it. He couldn't think of anything though. In fact over the last few days he had behaved in a
perfectly decent manner to everyone and couldn't remember causing any chaos at all.

Bruno then asks his mother what behavior warranted his being sent
awaypresumably to boarding school.

Why?" he asked
then. "What have I done?

She explains that the
entire family is moving because of the fathers new job. Brunos next assumption is that the move
will be to a house that is somewhat nearby. Brunos mother explains that they are actually going
to be quite a distance from their current home in Berlin. Bruno is shocked and worries about
leaving school and his friends.

You don't mean we're
leaving Berlin?" he asked, gasping for air as he got the words out.
"I'm
afraid so," said Mother, nodding her head sadly. "Your father's job
is"
"But what about school?" said Bruno, interrupting her, a thing he
knew he was not supposed to do but which he felt he would be forgiven for on this occasion.
"And what about Karl and Daniel and Martin? How will they know where I am when we want to
do things together?

Bruno does not fully grasp the
significance of the fact that move means he will no longer be near his friends. In other words,
Bruno and his sister, Gretel, as well as their mother, are being uprooted because of the
father's new job.

Moreover, the author appears to be using somehere. The
reader learns that Bruno has had a strict upbringing and knows that he must be polite to his
elders, including to the servants. The irony is that this is in sharp contrast to the treatment
people receive in Auschwitz. When the family arrives in Auschwitz, Bruno is still polite to the
adults around him, including the man who works in his familys kitchen chopping vegetables and
helping to serve meals. The man, Pavel, is a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz who had once been a
doctor before the war. Pavel realizes that Bruno is too young to understand
Auschwitz.