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In this study, Jerzy Kosinski’s novel The Painted Bird, which he wrote in 1965 based on a real life story during the Second World War, was sociologically analyzed in the context of violence against foreigners, with the focus of Richard Sennett's “foreigner” theory. In the study, while the massacres carried out by Nazi Germany against Jews and Gypsies continued, the social consequences of the social conditions and political environment of the war years on the poor peasants living in misery and disease in the Central European countryside were considered and the struggle of a child who has been subjected to violence by being excluded and marginalized in these villages due to his skin color has been examined. An important reality revealed by the Second World War is that racism, which was identified with Nazi Germany, had irreparable consequences for the human family. The genocidal project, which the German Nazi ideology saw as legitimate in order to become the sole sovereign of the world, was used unlimitedly on Jews, Gypsies and other vulnerable communities, as well as nations that did not recognize German sovereignty. It is seen that the results of this have taken their place in the history of humanity with a break far beyond these communities. It is seen that this table has been handled in many branches of art, especially literature and cinema, in different forms for many years. The Painted Bird novel, which has been translated into many languages, is one of the works that left its mark on the Second World War, together with its autobiographical features. In the novel, the violence and marginalization caused by racism are told through the eyes of a child who is the target of prejudices. In addition, it has been examined how the child's reactions to these are constructed as social reality. This study focuses on how the phenomena such as war, violence and the other are handled sociologically in the The Painted Bird novel in line with Sennett’s theory of the “foreigner”.

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