REVISION: KEY QUOTES Explain who said each quote and when (Context) State which of the following you would use each quote to help support: Setting, Character, Important Relationship, Important Moment or Twist, Theme. “The fence was very high, higher than even the house…At the top of the fence enormous bales of barbed wire were tangled in spirals” “It is a nasty-looking place isn’t it?” “Not even insects would choose to stay at Auschwitz” “There were crowds of people sitting together in groups…looking horribly sad” “all he could see was two different types of people: either happy, shouting, laughing soldiers…or crying people in their striped pyjamas” Bruno’s Grandmother describes Ralf as “dressing up like a puppet on a string” “Were they really so different? What exactly was the difference? And who decided who wore the striped pyjamas and which people wore the uniforms?” “Germany is the greatest of all countries…we’re superior” “He wondered what was going on in Out-with and whether it wasn’t a very bad idea if it made people look so unhealthy. None of it made any sense to him” “He held his hand out and Bruno couldn’t help but notice that it was like the hand of a pretend skeleton…veins visible through the skin, fingers little more than dying twigs” “I look like you now” “only fatter” “It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really” “You’re my best friend Shmuel…my best friend for life” “Of course nothing like this could ever happen again. Not in this day and age”
Explain who said each quote and when (Context)
State which of the following you would use each quote to help support: Setting, Character, Important Relationship, Important Moment or Twist, Theme.
“The fence was very high, higher than even the house…At the top of the fence enormous bales of barbed wire were tangled in spirals”
“It is a nasty-looking place isn’t it?”
“Not even insects would choose to stay at Auschwitz”
“There were crowds of people sitting together in groups…looking horribly sad”
“all he could see was two different types of people: either happy, shouting, laughing soldiers…or crying people in their striped pyjamas”
Bruno’s Grandmother describes Ralf as “dressing up like a puppet on a string”
“Were they really so different? What exactly was the difference? And who decided who wore the striped pyjamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
“Germany is the greatest of all countries…we’re superior”
“He wondered what was going on in Out-with and whether it wasn’t a very bad idea if it made people look so unhealthy. None of it made any sense to him”
“He held his hand out and Bruno couldn’t help but notice that it was like the hand of a pretend skeleton…veins visible through the skin, fingers little more than dying twigs”
“I look like you now” “only fatter”
“It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really”
“You’re my best friend Shmuel…my best friend for life”
“Of course nothing like this could ever happen again. Not in this day and age”