Bruno's thoughts and understandings are comprehended through innocence making him seem unaware in many occasions in the book "the boy in the stripped pyjamas." Bruno, being the main character but still not having a clue what is going around him is quite absurd, but then again, he wasn’t told any of this. He has never been exposed to poverty, any bad treatment, Nazi’s, the Jewish Holocaust or racism. When he first looked out his window, his assumes all the wrong things. He considers himself and a Jew to be equals. Bruno thinks he knows what is going on at the out-with and why he and everyone else is there, but he doesn’t. He was being kept in the shade, from the unpleasant, harsh world. Bruno is living in the WWII without even understanding what is going on around him. But, of course, how would he understand, he is eight; the age where every kid believes that unicorns are real. When he first looks out of the window and see’s the people in the stripped pyjamas, Gretel thought it was a country side, but Bruno figured out that it wasn’t a farm because there were no animals, like Gretel had said but they were right enough to figure out that it was a horrible place. Then further along they came to the conclusion that ‘it must be some sort of a rehearsal’ (on pg.37), because after the kids had formed a line were out of their hurdle the soldiers stopped shouting and hitting the kids, the soldiers laughed and applauded at them, both Bruno and Gretel ignoring the fact that the kids were actually crying. Finally they decided that these were not the types of children that they wanted to play with since they didn’t look clean, which Gretel thought was stupid because (on pg.38) she said ‘what kind of people don’t have baths?’ to which Bruno replied with, ‘people who don’t have hot water?’ and because they lived in houses that ‘must be modern types of houses’ according to Bruno and Gretel (on pg.33) but are actually hu