After reading this book, I strongly believe that Bruno experienced the biggest change by the end of the book. Reasons supporting my belief are that he is going through an emotional change by meeting Shmuel.
His lifestyle changes because he has moved house and is still trying to emotionally settle in. Additionally, Bruno's relationship with his family has changed because he starts lying to them. He says 'I am going out on the swing' when he is in actual fact he was going to meet Shmuel. Thankfully, he never gets caught... Until right at the end.
Also, Bruno's relationship with Shmuel changes quite a lot as well because it turns from a friendly relationship at the start of the book, and then, then develops into the two boys not being friends, and then, right at the very end, turns into the strongest relationship that could ever be.
Bruno's thinking and values change substantially throughout the course of the book. One example of this is when he moves house right at the very start of the book, he is sad, angry and annoyed and the dad continued to show no benevolence to any of them, but then, as the book goes along, Bruno thinking starts to switch from sadness, anger and annoyance to acceptance.
During the book, the dad asks him and his sister if they wanted to go back to Berlin and Bruno said 'NO'. At the start of the book, the answer would have being a definite YES. The father continued to show no benevolence. Despite this, they still stayed in OutWith.
I strongly believe that at the end of the book, the relationship that Bruno and Shmuel have with each other reached an all time high peak. The clue that suggests this the most is the fact the Bruno and Shmuel have always had a predominantly strong relationship so I believe that that had hit an all time high at the end of the novel.
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