In
chapter 19, Bruno agrees to help his friend Shmuel find his father in the concentration camp. In
order for Bruno to enter the concentration camp without attracting attention from the Nazi
guards, Bruno takes off his clothes and boots before putting on the "striped pajamas"
and climbing underneath the fence. After Bruno and Shmuel tragically die together in the gas
chambers, Bruno's father has his soldiers search the camp and its premises for signs of his son.
In chapter 20, the soldiers end up discovering Bruno's pile of clothes and his pair of boots on
the outside of the fence.
Time passes after the soldiers discover Bruno's
clothes near the fence, and Bruno's mother eventually moves back to Berlin. One year later,
Bruno's father forms a theory and returns to the location where Bruno's clothes were found. He
then notices that the bottom of the fence is not properly attached to the ground and that there
is a space large enough for a small person to crawl through. Bruno's father then contemplates
deeply the possibility that his son died in the gas chambers and immediately loses his
balance.
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