Bruno does start to evolve as the plot of this story gets deeper. For instance, he sees Holocaust victims for the first time. Page 38 notices that, "And one final thought came into her brother's head as he watched the hundreds of people in the distance going about their business, and that was the fact that all of them- the small boys, the big boys. the fathers, the grandfathers, the uncles, the people who lived on their own on everybody's road but didn't seem to have any relatives at all - were wearing the same clothes as each other: a pair of grey striped pajamas with a grey striped cap on their head." This is quite a sight for Bruno, as he never seen so much people wearing all the same clothes. It was also quite strange for Bruno to see such a sight from his bedroom, as he is really young and doesn't know why they are there. However, this is also Bruno's first taste of what Out-With is really is, and which he would explore later. At this point, he is used to Out-With but he still has hard feelings about this place. For example, on pg.59 he calls his father stupid, despite Maria saying his father was "a good man" and saying that he made a "terrible mistake". It probably took Bruno a long time to get used to Out-With. Plus, there was always times he would think it was better to stay in Berlin. He probably didn't really mean to call his father stupid, as back then it was big to respect your parents, rather he was expressing his anger that he was in Out- With in the first place. However, on the other hand there is clear separation between him and Berlin as in pg. 95, "And he still wished that he could go back to Berlin, although the memories of that place were beginning to fade." At this point, Bruno seems used to Out-With, merely accepting the fact that it is now his home for the "foreseeable future".
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