The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Q10

'"That's the name of this house," explained Gretel. "Out-With."'
Out-With. Out with. Out with the people who had previously lived in the house? Or out with many more?
Making this word a pun temporarily disguises it as a silly mispronunciation, but in reality, it represents more. John Boyne uses this word to convey that it was out with the previous bad people (representing the Jewish people), and in with the good people (representing the Germans). In a way, this suggests that this happens everywhere, all the time, when people decide that it should be out with the people they dislike and in with themselves.
The "Fury" cannot be mistaken as anyone else, for of course it is Adolf Hitler, the Führer. Hitler's deep hatred against Jewish people is aptly represented as "fury".
Both words symbolise more than a nine-year-old boy's mistakes. They symbolise the terror that the two words represented, while veiled by innocent words. In addition, communicating these significant elements with normal words that weren't at all directly related to their real counterparts, Boyne keeps away from too much reality, and sticks to the fact that it was just a story. By using these words, he also implies that the camp of Auschwitz and the Führer were two things that had remained unknown to the world, until they were exposed for the horror that they stood for to its enemies.