Letters

Bruno to his Grandmother right before going on his final adventure (imagine she was still alive)


Hi Grandma


I really am missing you right now, as you know this is the last day before we move back to Berlin. Well not all of us, father says that he has to stay and do important work. He and Mama got into a fight last night and me and Gretel heard everything, now the next thing we know we are going back to our old home in Berlin. I don't really look forward to it, I have grown to this house in Out-With and im not sure I want to leave. I will miss the funny people in striped pyjamas and the way that they act, I will miss the swing tyre outside the front and most of all I will miss all the adventures I had and all of the discovery's I have found. To be honest I can't even remember the friends I had back in Berlin,  there names have slipped out of my memory and all I can think about is life in Out-With. But it will be good to be free again and not en-caged in Out-With with soldiers telling me what to do every time I see them and I do look forward to the fruit stalls and sliding down the banister, but i truly do want to stay at Out-With because it is where I belong.


Hope to see you soon Bruno


Write a letter from the mother to the father upon leaving to move back to Berlin without him


I know I must be hard for you to hear that we are moving back to Berlin, but you know the reason why. This just is not a place for children, Bruno is becoming suspicious, Grettle is changing into something I don't like and the way you respect the Jewish race is just horrible. The smell that drifts from the mountains is just terrible but you don't seem to notice. All you care about is Germany and how to win the war when you should be focusing on your family and what they want. Once we move back to Berlin i hope that our futures will become greater than what they are becoming, people are dying right next door and you think that that is right. This was just like the time you let poor old Pavel get thrown around the room only because he made a little mistake. I really do not like it here and i hope you actually know that. So basically what im trying to say is that i hope you will change your mind and come with us or you could stay in this unforgivable place and waste your life killing innocent people. I really hope you do come with us because then we can live the lives we dreamed of back in Berlin. 
I guess this is goodbye love  from your dearest wife