Similarities- Relocate from home, Education
Differences-Status, Ideologies
Explanation:
Bruno and Shmuel had stark similarities as well as contrasting differences.
Similarities include-
1. Both of the boys were forced to relocate from their homes. Bruno left his home due to his father who got a new position in the Nazi regime. Shmuel was taken as a prisoner during war and later put in a concentration camp thereby leaving his home in Poland.
2. Both of them (Bruno and Shmuel) was born on 15th April 1934 and were educated. Bruno had a private tutor who taught him the ideologies of the Nazi party. Shmuel was schooled by his mother who herself was a teacher, taught him about foreign languages.
Difference between them includes-
1. Bruno and Shmuel belong to two different strata of society. Bruno lived in opulence surrounded and cared for by maids and servant at all times. Shmuel lived in a dingy, cramped barrack always overlooked by cruel ill-tempered guards.
2. Bruno was raised in the Germany ruled by Nazi’s to the parents who were on the side of Hitler’s regime. Shmuel, on the other hand, was raised in Poland. He was born to parents of Jewish origins.