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

The boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne is about a little boy named Pierrot that has to go through a lot in his young age. His parents died when he was only seven years old and he was left with with no one else in Paris, so he was sent off to an orphanage where two sisters took care of him until he got adopted. When he got adopted, he figured out that it was his aunt that adopted him, that he had never met that lived in Austria working for the master of the German side during the Holocaust. When he got to the masters house he thought that it was going to be like his life back in Paris, but it wasn't. As he got older his life was changing fast and he was starting to act more like Hitler, the master of the German side. His actions weren't right and they ended up hurting some people, then he was left alone in the Bergdorf by himself when Hitler died and there was no one else living there. After the war was over he was captured by Americans and was taken to a camp where he was set straight and went back to live in Paris where he was born.

This book relates to the Holocaust because it is a fictional book that takes place during that time in Austria. The Boy at the Top of the Mountain has to do with World War II and what was happening between the Jewish people and the German side. Pierrot the main character in the book lives with Hitler while he is barking orders and trying to win in the war. Hitler in this book is taking away the rights of the people in many different places, and is capturing them, and torturing  them just like he was doing in the Holocaust. In the book it also related to this historic event because one of the children that Pierrot would hang out with as a young kid went into hiding just like some of the other people did in the real world event.

I like the way the author uses the real life event and turns it into a creative fictional story about how a little boy has to go through all this at a young age. It made me think of how this impacted so many people's lives in the real world. It makes me feel bad that this was an actual event that people had to go through and suffer from. This story teaches us that we shouldn't change for anyone and we should stand up for our rights. It also teaches us that we should stay strong and not let anyone tell us that we aren't capable of doing something.