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In The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, our main character Bruno realizes that Maria, his longtime maid, is more than a maid -- she's a real person with a real history! In the spirit of Bruno, write a story or biography about your maid or worker. Or, if you don't have a maid, write a story from Maria's perspective.
Please post them in the Comments here. Due Wednesday, February 4
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Sky
1/31/2015 11:19:06 pm
Three years ago, a cheerful, friendly. kind and happy soul settled in my home. Her name is Nadar and she’s 23. Her birthday is n 27th of August. She’s from Magway, Mandalay. She’s always wears Thanatkhar and has a beautiful smile on her face. She works so hard, day and night. She has been working for my family ‘till today.
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Thihan
2/1/2015 12:08:05 am
When I was young, about 8, me and my mother stayed at one of my mother's friend's house. I didn't exactly know what my mother's friend does. Only thing I knew was that she had a job with a high salary. She went around the country often. My mother and I had to follow her. My mother worked as a dresser. She had to decide the clothes that her friend will wear. She had to choose what her friend will wear and iron all the clothes.
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Kyi Phyu
2/1/2015 07:13:36 pm
I am the only daughter of my parents. My parents are busy with their job and they can't look after me properly. So,my parents left me under the care of me for 12 years. She is short and plump with an ugly face. But she is a kind-hearted woman. Every morning, she prepares breakfast for me. She is not only my maid, but also looks after the house. She looks after me like her little sister. She cam tolerate me when I bully her. Unfortunately, her parents passed away when she was a child. She is an educated person, and she left school when she was in Grade-4. The point was to struggle in her life as a maid. Actually, she was a paddy girl in her village. She has innocence, self-confidence, and faith. She can do domestic affairs neatly and tidily. Moreover, she knows cookery that is so delicious.Now, she came of age at about 35. Sometimes, my mom bought some clothes for her. At that time, I envy her. But also, she is so pitiful. In fact, she is an orphan. Otherwise, she is in poverty. Gradually, I pity her. Nowadays, there are some hardships to live as a human being. That's why, she has acumen and diligence in whatever she does. Hence, my mom and I are attached to her. That's why, she is really faithful to my family.
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Kyi Phyu
2/1/2015 07:20:45 pm
I am the only daughter of my parents. My parents are busy with their job and they can't look after me properly. So,my parents left me under the care of me for 12 years. She is short and plump with an ugly face. But she is a kind-hearted woman. Every morning, she prepares breakfast for me. She is not only my maid, but also looks after the house. She looks after me like her little sister. She cam tolerate me when I bully her. Unfortunately, her parents passed away when she was a child. She is an educated person, and she left school when she was in Grade-4. The point was to struggle in her life as a maid. Actually, she was a paddy girl in her village. She has innocence, self-confidence, and faith. She can do domestic affairs neatly and tidily. Moreover, she knows cookery that is so delicious.Now, she came of age at about 35. Sometimes, my mom bought some clothes for her. At that time, I envy her. But also, she is so pitiful. In fact, she is an orphan. Otherwise, she is in poverty. Gradually, I pity her. Nowadays, there are some hardships to live as a human being. That's why, she has acumen and diligence in whatever she does. Hence, my mom and I are attached to her. That's why, she is really faithful to my family.
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Anthony Lim
2/1/2015 09:49:36 pm
It was another day,Bruno's dad just became an adult. He was in his house, when there was a knock on his door."Who could that be?" he thought. He walked to the door, turned the handle, and was astonished at who he saw on the doorstep. It was his old caretaker's daughter, Maria. "Maria?What are you doing here?" asked Bruno's father. "H-H-Hans?" she replied, "Well, I was in the country, and I kinda heard you got a house. Well, what i wanted to say was..."She hesitated. She shifted nervously and stared at the floor. After a minute or so, she looked up awkwardly and stuttered,"I l-l-lo-like that you're here!" She wanted to confess her love for him, but she couldn't get it out. "Uhhh, okay then?" replied Hans, father of Bruno. Although it may seem like Hans holds no affection towards Maria, he does. He always had a little fetish towards lolis. "May I get you a drink?" asked Hans. "Y-y-yes please."stammered Maria. "Okay then." replied Hans. He went to the back and poured two glasses of alcohol. While he was in the back, Maria made herself comfortable on the couch and prepared for her next encounter with Hans. She put on some make-up, did her hair, and then loosened a few buttons on her blouse. After a few minutes, Hans came back with two glasses of wine. " T-thank you." said Maria. She reached for the glass but clumsily knocked the glass over. "Oops!" exclaimed Maria. She bent over to clean the mess up. Hans was getting heated up. He was getting steamy when he suddenly blurted out,"Do you want a job or anything?" Maria, shocked by this sudden proposal, panicked and said,"Yep." "Well, I need a caretaker for this house, up for it?" proposed Hans. Maria, raised in poverty, immediately expected. Later, one thing led to another, and Maria got pregnant. Hans was not happy, he had a wife and a daughter during that night of passion. Broomhilda, Hans' wife, never found out about this affair and loved Maria. Although Hans wanted Maria to leave, and Maria to quit, Broomhilda argued over this and persuaded Maria to stay by raising Maria's salary. This is why the commandant refers to Maria as the overpaid maid.
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Nay Win
2/1/2015 10:12:09 pm
Maria's Sad Past
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Sad guy
2/2/2015 09:55:13 pm
:'(
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phone hein kyaw
2/2/2015 08:36:18 pm
I am Maria. I am a 19 year old girl who is a maid in a commander of Germany’s house. Before that I was a little girl who roamed around the street every day, until Bruno’s mum found me. That happened when I was 7 years old, when Bruno wasn’t born yet. My parents died when I was very young. Now, I live with a little annoying boy named Bruno, the talkative mother, the stupid commander and, Gretel who is the least annoying of all of them. We just moved to a new house. It’s terrible here except for the fact that there Is less to clean, because Bruno isn’t as playful as before as before and the house is smaller. There is no one to talk to when you are bored on the streets, unlike back in Berlin. Even if there was I don’t speak Polish. The worst part about this place is that I miss my boyfriend. I left without even saying goodbye to him. He must be worried sick by now. By the way, nobody knows about him except me and Gretel. My contract is going to expire in 3 months, and I shall not renew it if we are going to stay here longer. The only good thing is that I get 100000 Deutch Franes a month. The commander hates it but who cares.
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TOOOOOOOOOONNNNYYYYY
2/2/2015 08:52:26 pm
My maid comes from really poor village. She has a very old and sick mother. At first she was selling vegetables at the market. They work one day and eat one day. They had no extra money to save. So she was looking for work which could save money and heal her mother. Her mother had a lot of diseases. So she needed to get a job quick. And one of her aunts keeps a maid near our house. So we also keep the neighbor that we needed a maid to help my grandmother. So her aunt called her to come to our house but at first she thinks it was not the job she wanted to do. But suddenly her mother got something wrong and ha to go to the hospital so she agreed to work in our house. We gave her money first and she has worked in our house for a year now. At first, she couldn’t do anything in our house. She couldn’t clean the floor, couldn’t cook anything. So we taught her everything such as how to cook Chinese food and curry. We also had to teach her such as what to do from the morning to the end of day. And we also gave her free time. Sometimes when my mother goes shopping, she also buys her some new clothes, because she has worked in our house for a long time. Sometimes when she is sad, and we also cheer her so she will be happy and stay in our house. So now she is happy in our house, and she doesn’t want to leave.
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Tony Chan (A.K.A Chan Chan)
2/2/2015 09:36:07 pm
My maid name is Daw Ma. She told me that she had a very difficult life. She told me that when she was eleven years old, her father died because of drinking beer. Since then she had to work in the farm that her dad's friend owns. She lived in a village in Naung Done. When she was 22, she came to Yangon. To find money, she wanted to be a housemaid.
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Gloria Nitra
2/2/2015 09:42:30 pm
My maid's name is Thuzar Aung. She will be 20 years old in March 21. She is from a village called 'Thar Si.' She has 5 family members. They are her father, mother, brother, herself and her younger sister. Her father's name is U Lwin Aung. Her mother's name is Daw San San Wai. Her older brother is 2 years older than her and his name is Ko Maung Aung. Her younger sister is 3 years younger than her, and her name is Ma Soe Soe.
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Saiful
2/2/2015 10:16:15 pm
Maria is Bruno’s maid. Bruno’s father who is the commandant took Maria in when Bruno was only three years old. The moment Bruno called his father stupid, Maria denied that statement. Maria liked his father for his nice doing. The commandant helped Maria a lot when her family started working with their family. Maria’s grandmother worked with the commandant’s mother back then. Always cleaning up things and making sure that her mother was ready every time. The commandant helped Maria’s mother when she got sick by paying the expenses. He was not allowed to do that, and that is why he used his own money for it. He also paid for the funeral expenses when Maria’s mother passed away. Those things made Maria look up to the commandant as a good man. Maria is believed to be a Jew. Her family got taken away, and that is why she is working for the commandant. If she was in Berlin, she would have been persecuted. She was very lucky to be taken by the commandant.
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Stephen, the clone of Jane.
2/2/2015 10:19:16 pm
We were in a really difficult financial situation. We hadn’t eaten a single grain of rice for a week or two. Life was really bad for me and my family. I could pretty much last without eating but no, my parents couldn’t. I assured myself that I would find myself some money to feed my parents! I must fulfill that! I could not allow my parents to suffer! Fortunately a man came up to me and offered me a job. That job was to be his maid. I couldn’t turn down the offer. I at least needed some money to feed my family. The next day I started working for him. Life was a little hard though, because the man’s child Gretel wouldn’t treat me nicely. But he had another child though. His name was Bruno. Although he was playful I felt like he was a clever child. He treated me well unlike Gretel. Their house was like a mansion, and it was great working for them.
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Anonymous
2/3/2015 09:48:42 pm
lol the name XD
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laughing
2/7/2015 04:54:12 pm
lol
unknown
2/7/2015 05:00:22 pm
hhhaaarr
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Thuta
2/2/2015 11:12:54 pm
My name is Maria, I work as a maid for a family, A family that I owe my thanks for my life. Without them, where would I be in this world? Would I even be on this world? It wasn’t always like this. Let me start from the beginning.
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Harry
2/3/2015 11:30:48 pm
My Maid Story
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