Anne’s diary begins on her thirteenth birthday, June 12, 1942, and ends shortly after her fifteenth. At the start of her diary, Anne describes fairly typical girlhood experiences, writing about her friendships with other girls, her crushes on boys, and her academic performance at school. Because anti-Semitic laws forced Jews into separate schools, Anne and her older sister, Margot, attended the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam. The Franks had moved to the Netherlands in the years leading up to World War II to escape persecution in Germany.…
Matthew Myers English 10 Honors Pre-AP Vidal September 2, 2016 How to Read Literature like A Professor Chapter Response Introduction Recognizing patterns can make reading easier by helping the reader to comprehend the more complicated parts of a book so the reader can get a deeper sense of what the book is trying to portray. By recognizing patterns in books it allows the reader to recall information from past experiences or texts to help them figure out what the book is trying to get you to understand. By recognizing the symbols and patterns of animal farm it allowed me to understand the deeper meaning of the book allowing the read to not be confusing, but fun and exciting.…
To begin with, Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, was an influential writer who’s diary became published after the end of World War Two. She was forced to hide in a place called the “Secret Annex,” which was an attic above the building her dad worked in. Because she hid in this concealed location with her family, Anne was able to postpone having to be sent to concentration camps. During her time…
The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish individuals. Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren is a biography about a teenage boy named Jack Mandelbaum who was separated from his family during the awful Holocaust. The Diary of Anne Frank was about a girl named Anne Frank and her struggles through the Holocaust. The Diary of Anne Frank is adapted into the play version by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett and is the Pulitzer-Prize winning play. Both Jack and Anne were both Jewish teenagers who were forced out of their home.…
In the Diary of Anne Frank, Anne shows a lot of positivity towards her heritage and religion. Evidence of this would be when anne shows a lot of excitement when they are trying to explain hanukkah to their friend Mr.Dussel who didn't understand judaism because he was dutch. “It isn’t over yet! There’s a lot more, songs and presents” (774). When anne says this she shows that anne love her religion.…
“The Diary of Anne Frank” is a very interesting story. It talks and helps you understand what happened to a group of people who lived in fear. It was a hard time. There are characters that helped somewhat because they were good at heart. In the play “The Diary of Anne Frank”, the theme, people are good at heart, is developed mostly through the characters Anne Frank, Mr. Frank, and Mr. Kraler.…
The Diary of Anne Frank Compare/Contrast Essay The Diary of Anne Frank is a story about a 13 year old girl who lived during the holocaust. Her and her family were Jewish and were forced into hiding. They along with 4 other people hid in the attic above Mr. Frank’s office, called the “annex”. The Franks, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel lived there for two years without stepping outside and relying on Miep and Mr. Kraler to bring them basic supplies, food, and information about the world. This story is mainly depressing and intense throughout the events.…
In 1939-1945, The second World War has begun when Germany made an attack into Poland. The battle absorbed the other countries in the heat of battle as well. This was also during the time where Adolf Hitler rose in power and blamed the Jews for the victory of the first World War. The world went through major changes mainly for the Jews. The play called The Diary of Anne Frank talks about a 13 year old girl who has been hiding for two years with her “family” when the war started.…
The most surprising, interesting or useful piece of information learned through reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Eleanor Roosevelt was the difference between life in the Secret Annexe and life today. Firstly, the members of the secret annex did not get the pleasure of three meals a day unlike most people today. For example, Anne states, “We’re going to be hungry, but anything is better than being discovered” (240).…
At the age of four, Anne’s father, mother, and sister moved to Amsterdam and Anne joined them when she reached the age of five. She lived here and enrolled in school. Anne loved school and missed it dearly while she lived in hiding. Her outstanding academics resulted in her acceptance into the Jewish Lyceum. She studied there until her family left to live in hiding.…
Unfortunately, her diary is left unfinished, for she, her family, and the other occupants of the annex are discovered by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp. The general horror of war, coupled with the specific horrors that the Nazis inflicted upon the Jews, is the major theme of the diary. Anne Frank, the young teenage girl who writes the diary, experiences the pain of war first-hand. In order to try and escape the Nazi extermination of Jewish people, her family and the Van Daans go into hiding in Amsterdam, Holland. In spite of their efforts to save themselves, all of the Franks and Van Daans are captured and sent to a concentration camp.…
Fearing they’d be captured and sent to a concentration camp, the Franks went into hiding. Anne, the young thirteen-year-old girl kept a diary and filled it with emotion and events of things that happened while she was in hiding. From the diary, the audience learns more detail about how precautious they must be when hiding so no one will find them. “Shh! I can hear a man’s voice talking.”…
Anne Frank once wrote, “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” This quote comes from a very inspirational individual. As one may know, Anne Frank was a Jewish Teenager who lived during the Holocaust. Anne, in addition to seven other Jews lived in this cramped space for over two years. While she was a teenager, adolescent Anne kept track of her daily life in a journal.…
In this essay, I will be comparing the Diary Of Anne Frank play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich to the original published diary of Anne Frank. I will talk about the differences and similarities in each piece. In Anne’s diary, it starts out in Anne’s original house, and she receives her diary on her 13th birthday. In the play, it starts as the Franks are getting to the hiding place, and Anne receives her diary as a gift from her dad in a box. I think that the people who wrote the play decided to remove this because it went on for a while.…
In The Diary of Anne Frank, the novel starts off by Anne Frank, herself, celebrating her thirteenth birthday and is given a diary of her own. She describes all of her friends from school that attend her birthday party in a hysterical way. Anne describes her sense of loneliness and feels as if she has no one to confide in. She decides to call this special diary “Kitty.” Anne writes about her family and teaches the reader that she has a mother, father and an older sister named Margot, and that the entire family all lived in Frankfurt, Germany until she turned about four years old.…