The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - text to text

The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne is about a little boy that has a rough life at the age of only 7 years old. Both his parents died with in only a few weeks of each other and he was left with no one else's to care for him in Paris. He was then put into an orphanage and was looked after by two very sweet sisters. Then he was adopted by his aunt Beatrix that he had never met before, that lived in Austria at the master for the German sides house. When he got up there he wasn't really able to act like himself because he was so used to living in Paris it was hard to Change for the people around him. Now he has to learn the usual routine and is working for the master.

I can relate my book to Number the Stars because they both have to do with young kids that are living through the holocaust. In my book the boy that lives with the master of the German side has a friend that he can't write to because he wanted to keep him safe. In the other book the little girl is having to escape from the land to get her friend to a safe place so the Germans won't be able to catch her. They both are struggling to let their friends go because they are not going to be able to see they for a long time and are having to let go of someone very important to them.


In both books I thought it was sad that they had to leave their friends, but at the same time I thought it was sweet how they were doing anything they could to keep their friends safe. The books tell stories about things that took place during the holocaust. Books about the holocaust could prevent something like this to happen again in the future. My book connects to many other book, but I found that this was one of the best books to connect it to.