Question 8- Trains

When Bruno left to “Out-With” he was on a train which was very empty, parallel to it was another train which was very crowded with people. Soon when Shmuel tells Bruno that he came on an overcrowded train, that Bruno realized the people in strip pyjamas came on the overcrowded train. This symbolized that at first, Bruno and Shmuel’s lives were running parallel to each other, completely different and never meeting, but it somehow, their lives still came together and met each other. The trains also symbolized a one way ticket, or death because they both went on the train, however none of them got back.