...Directly following the Bible; Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the best-selling nonfiction books throughout the world. With over thirty-one million copies sold, the diary has been translated into sixty-seven different languages making Anne Frank a symbol of the six-million Jews killed throughout the Holocaust (Langer). The engaging story of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl contains well-written passages filled with articulate and vivid descriptions of life in the Secret Annex, written by, Anne Frank. While Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl contains few controversial elements; it is an enduring classic that portrays a young girl’s response to her changing life, relationships, mind and body, during the extreme circumstances that constantly surround the world around her. The Diary of a Young Girl begins while following the life of a typical teenage girl, who receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. Like most teenage girls, it seems Anne’s life is solely surrounded with gossip about boys, friends, and school. However, it is in an early entry, where Anne reveals her desire of a true friend to have conversations of value and to be her trusted confident. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, the Franks were forced into hiding. The family moved into a small building above Mr. Frank’s office known as the Secret Annex. For the next two years, the Frank family, the Van Daan family and Mr. Dussel all lived in the Secret Annex while being cut...
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...having an affair with Jack for the last two years. This story takes place on the young girls Eighteenth birthday. Although throughout the story, the young girls feeling of love and hope for their relationship are steadfast, the narrator takes the reader on the wavering struggles Jack has between caring about the eighteen year old girl and their relationship, while remembering the reality of both their situations, even though Jack consistently shows signs of being a non-caring, boozing, and adulterous older man. Throughout the story, the narrator takes the reader through many different opinions on how Jack treats the young girl. In the first sentence, Jack seems like a nice guy who has bought the young girl a five year diary, which is a very thoughtful birthday gift for an eighteen year old. Within moments, the narrator then shows Jack as very uncaring, as he pushes her head down while attempting to hide her from his wife. Not only are the readers now looking at him as an adulteress, but through the narrator’s description of her surroundings, are envisioning Jack as a guy who drinks booze with under aged girls while wearing dirty boots in his dirty truck. Jacks character continues to barrel downwards as he rides by his wife with his mistress in the car slinging insults about the stupid things his wife does. As the young girl tells Jack that she is going to write about how much she loves him in her diary, he discourages her by telling her that in a...
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...possibly considered to be “too adult” in nature for children to understand, even if they were written with the audience of a child in mind. There is one book that comes to mind that provides an in-depth education to what life is like from the eyes of a child, being told that she’s too young to understand some events and discussions, in spite of living through them on a daily basis. That book is Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a partial biography of Anne Frank who had received the gift of a diary for her 13th birthday in 1942 (Frank, 1967). The pages in the diary are written in a two year period, beginning on June 14, 1942 and ending with the last entry of August 1, 1944. Anne was a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam Holland whose life, along with her family and most of her friends, was turned upside down simply for being Jewish. Yet, when one reads her diary, it is clear that we could almost be reading the diary of any 13-15 year old girl when the circumstances of war are ignored. For the most part, Anne is a typical 13 year old girl when she starts writing in her journal. As Frank (1967) stated “It’s an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither...
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...second wave, or so forth, feminism we are talking about and regardless of where you stand on the point- it happened and it has helped shape america to be the great country that is is to day. There are so many stories, both fictional and not, that help us see what women were thinking and feeling during those first and second waves feminism (as well as the later ones). One such book that shows this idealism in an increasingly thought provoking and fascinating way is the anonymously written Go Ask Alice. The book supposedly comes from a young 16 year old girl’s diary but no one really knows if that's true. Despite our lacking Knowledge of the author and the origin of the book it interesting perspective of second wave feminism can help you see what girls of Alice's age back then were thinking and feeling. The heart of the book is Alice’s diaries that she has kept over the years and pours her thoughts and feelings into. Through the perspective of her diary you get to see Alice’s downfall into drugs and where it ends up taking her in life. She was not the only one that was being affected by drugs at this time she was actually a part of a much larger group of women and men that were were acting this way because they wanted to be free from the government's rules and life itself. This is where the connection between Go Ask Alice and second wave feminism shows up. Alice was a part of a revolution that happened in America, In which many people were able to gain rights (both men and women,...
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...The Diary of Anne Frank History 112 The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name, which was based on the diary of Anne Frank. It was directed by George Stevens, with a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It is the first film version of both the play and the original story, and features three members of the original Broadway cast. The film was based on the personal diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who lived in hiding with her family during World War II. All her writings to her diary were addressed as 'Dear Kitty'. The diary was published after the end of the war by her father Otto Frank (played by Joseph Schildkraut, also a Jew). By this time, all his other family members were killed by the Nazis. It was shot on a sound stage duplicate of the factory in Los Angeles, while exteriors were filmed at the actual building in Amsterdam. In 1945, as a truckload of war survivors stops in front of an Amsterdam factory at the end of World War II, Otto Frank (Joseph Schildkraut) gets out and walks inside. After climbing the stairs to a deserted garret, Otto finds a girl's discarded glove and sobs, then is joined and comforted by Miep Gies (Dodie Heath) and Mr. Kraler (Douglas Spencer), factory workers who shielded him from the Nazis. After stating that he is now all alone, Otto begins to search for the diary written by his youngest daughter, Anne. Miep promptly retrieves the journal for Otto, and he receives solace...
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...Mark Fossie was Mary’s childhood sweetheart, and Mark brought Mary to Vietnam. When Mary arrived she carried a curiosity for “the land,” and “the mystery” of Vietnam (O’Brien 91). Mary’s curiosity showed that she did not understand the overwhelming danger of Vietnam. Ultimately however, she became engulfed by Vietnam and wouldn’t leave. At first, she underestimated Vietnam. She thought that she was untouchable when she explored the Vietnamese villages, rivers, and jungles. Eventually, she became distant from the soldiers and began to consume herself with Vietnam. She was seen in a hut with incense and skeletons lying around, “and at the girl’s throat was a necklace of human tongues.” (O’Brien 105) She became the land, the violence, and the war. She was no longer on the side of the soldiers; she was on the side of Vietnam and all that it represented. The necklace that she carried symbolized the hardships and violence of the war, and the idea that war can corrupt the most innocent of...
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...To be young and in love with both life and a boy...that’s the stuff a teenage girl dreams about. Yet, to have these taken away in an instant through a heinous murder...is the stuff of nightmare. In the passage describing Nancy in In Cold Blood, Truman Capote utilizes imagery, syntax, and pathos forcing us to understand who Nancy was and feel sad she is gone because she was an innocent teenage girl who was unexpectedly murdered. Capote displays the usage of imagery in the description of her room and the memories of her journey through life, giving us the general perception of the loss, taking us through the actions of her daily life and the layout the sweet and blameless girl and her room. The purity of a girl's room is seen in this passage,...
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...The Diary of a Curly Haired Girl Young girls in modern society strive to achieve culturally acceptable beauty: contoured cheekbones and long flowing hair. Genetics plays a large role in the physical characteristics within each species, however, humans feel inclined to change these features. The desire to address physical differences becomes more real as modern girls age. With these differences, a girl’s self-confidence dips. If I were given a movie role, I would play the hero because a hero manages to overcome conflicts. The majority of the girls in my elementary school wore their hair in cute perfect ponytails while I wore mine in large plaits with colored clips. The other girls bombarded me with questions. “Why don’t you wear your hair out?”...
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...'Inspector Goole is little more than a staging device to explore the sins of the major characters.' Discuss the role of the Inspector in the play. Is he more than just a staging device? Below is a possible answer to this question. It is not a model answer, and has several things wrong with it, but it would achieve a grade A if it was entered as a piece of English literature coursework. Read through the answer and see if you can understand why it should gain an A. Here are the criteria it needs to match: • sustained knowledge of text • structured response to task • personal involvement/empathy • appropriate comment on meaning/style • effective use of reference/supporting textual detail Specific criteria for 20th Century drama: • explore dramatic effects of character and action • use detail to explore effects of dramatic devices and structures • explore relevance of aspects of the social/historical setting of text Response Describing Inspector Goole as a staging device implies that he is not a character in his own right but exists simply as a way of exploring the personalities and lives of other, more fully rounded, characters. Whilst it is true that An Inspector Calls would not work without Inspector Goole's central role, it reduces him a little to call him 'just' a staging device. In order to understand the full significance of Inspector Goole, it is worth exploring how his primary role works and then looking at what further significance...
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...How different it was in the early 1900s, when blue was for girls and pink for boys. Any colour so long as it's pink | The Women's Journal explained it thus: "That pink being a more decided and stronger colour, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl." DressMaker magazine agreed. "The preferred colour to dress young boys in is pink. Blue is reserved for girls as it is considered paler, and the more dainty of the two colours, and pink is thought to be stronger (akin to red)." Rkgnifnviovn hree years ago, while she was on maternity leave, Ros Ball and her partner, James, began a diary of their children's lives. Their daughter Josie was three and their son Clem three months old. They wanted to record the moments when their children were made aware of gender stereotypes; when they were directed towards a view of the world in which girls and boys inhabit separate, rigid spheres of pink and blue – the first sphere passive, pretty and gentle, the second aggressive, active and strong. The results were tweeted under the title Baby Gender Diary, and Ball, a broadcast journalist who lives in London, couldn't believe how much there was to write about. On the first day, they went to a pantomime with a toy stall, where Josie's older male cousins directed her straight towards the sort of item supposedly beloved of small girls: a fluffy pink tiara. One of these boys then chose a flashing torch, in pink, for himself, to which...
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...perseverance she was able to pull through. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the countries Swat District. She lived in her house in Mingora with her parents and two brothers. Her father is Ziauddin Yousafzai and her mother is Tor Pekai. Her brothers are Khushal and Atal Yousafzai. Malala was mostly educated by her father, who is a school owner and an educational activist. He runs a group of private schools named Khushal Public School. Malala’s father urged her to become a politician, although her original plan was to become a doctor. Her father encouraged this idea very much, that he allowed her to stay up at night and talk about politics together. Malala started talking about educational rights at a very young age in 2008. In the later 2008 moths, a man named Aamer Ahamed Khan of BBC Urdu thought of an idea to find a schoolgirl to blog about her life. Their correspondent in Peshawar, Pakistan, Abdul Kakar, knew Malala’s father, but couldn’t find any students old enough that were willing to risk their lives. It was very dangerous. Ziauddin Yousafzai then suggested his daughter Malala Yousafzai who was only eleven at the time. The editor at BBC agreed. On January 3rd, 2009, Malala’s first entry was posted to the blog. She wrote her notes by hand and gave them to a reporter who would email them. The blog recorded her thoughts during The First Battle of Swat. The military moved in but helps fewer and fewer schools. Eventually the school shuts down...
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...Marilyn Monroe, arguably the most famous woman of the 20th century, was hidden behind her typecasting as a provocative, dumb blonde. Emerging as America’s first sex symbol in the late 1950’s, Monroe was different and immediately attracted attention, while her well-being was disregarded. Although her career was prosperous, it was cut short by her death in 1962: a death that is still debated heavily today. Her photos hanging in teen girl’s rooms, her movies still glorified, Marilyn Monroe lives on. Her life was nowhere near perfect and the other side of Marilyn, the madness, is what will be divulged here today. In the summer of 1926, Marilyn, formerly Norma Jeane Mortenson, was born into a fatherless home and forced to live out her early life...
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...The Importance of being Earnest - THEMES # Lies and Deceit: The most prevalent reason characters in The Importance of Being Earnest lie is to get out of social or familial duties and, instead, to do something more enjoyable. Not surprisingly, few characters hold honesty in high regard. However, we see how hard it is for characters to set things straight once they’ve lied about them. As the situation gets increasingly complicated, characters must weave more complex lies to get out of the tangles of their previous lies. Eventually they reach the point where lies will no longer work and the truth is revealed. Perhaps the most striking thing is that none of the characters ever shows true remorse or guilt about lying. 1. Algernon: Yes. But why does your aunt call you her uncle? 'From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack.' There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter what her size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, I can't quite make out. Besides, your name isn't Jack at all; it is Ernest. Jack: It isn't Ernest; it's Jack Jack lies to cover up his double life. A simple white lie that he doesn’t know anyone named "Cecily" gets him into an incredibly messy situation. When he’s forced to admit he does know a "Cecily," he tries to pass her off as his aunt. But Algy, a fellow Bunburyist, eventually sniffs it all out and forces Jack to confess. What is most surprising is that Jack seems to have no shame...
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...teenage grandson, Wook, in a tiny, cluttered apartment in an unnamed South Korean city. The film begins with her being diagnosed as an Alzheimer’s patient. With the onset of this disease, her life begins to lose meaning: words fade from her vocabulary, connections with the material word diminish, and people don’t seem to make much sense to her. Considering this, her pursuit to study poetry is a way to imbue her life with new meaning. And while this pursuit begins as a pastime, it soon transforms into a passion and, finally, becomes a means of transcendence; a means of seeing the world and the people close to her in a way that could only be described as beautiful, genuine and poetic. For while Mija does not initially understand the death of the young girl, Agnes, through poetry, she is able to see it clearly. Lee begins the film with a mesmerizing image of rushing water in a river stream. What...
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...Suicide: The Lisbon Girls’ Only Escape From the Lies of a Dying Society One of the major underlying themes in The Virgin Suicides is the idea of a dying society, dying not from disease, but from boredom and conformity, not a physical death, but a cultural death, a spiritual death. We see death in the dying fish flies, the dying Elm trees as well as the Lisbon girls. The perspective of the world in the novel is cruelly and unrealistically pessimistic. The “…town is covered by the flotsam of those ephemeral insects. Rising in clouds from the algae in the polluted lake…flying scum” (4). But is not just fish flies that are polluting this town. Life itself in the Suburbs is morally and spiritually polluted. Eugenides writes that “Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair” (175). If this is the case then the entire novel seems to be one eternal winter. Or one could consider summer in comparison to winter, as the season of suicide, and no matter what the season, the world in the novel is a cruel, dark, hopeless place. The world is viewed in the novel as a sort of wasteland from which mankind has attempted to escape, moving to Suburbia seeking perfection and thus salvation. Only perfection is an unrealistic goal, and is therefore naturally unobtainable. Part of the American ideal of happiness is to strive for the unobtainable. The suburbs only exist as an attempt to cover up reality, hiding problems, worries, anxieties, realities, and skeletons behind the monotonous...
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