...Otto Frank returns to a secret hiding place in which he and his family have lived during the first part of the Holocaust in Amsterdam. His friend, Miep Gies, has saved a diary that his daughter Anne kept during that time. Otto begins reading the diary aloud, and the play follows Anne's thoughts and actions, as well as those of the others hiding in the Secret Annex. In the play, you can see their daily struggles such as their fear of existence and fear of the Nazis. Throughout the play, you can tell how the struggles their family went through made them closer. They all hope that they can make it out alive but they know that their chances of survival are very slim. Even though they are afraid that they will burn to death or be brutally slaughtered...
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...ANNE FRANK by DylanWilliams I want to write about Anne Frank because her story is just to horrifying especially to a teenager. I couldn’t image how scared she would be. Especially when you stay in an attic for 2 years, you don’t know what is going on, and youre clueless to the outside world. I don’t understand how she went two years of staying inside when I can only do it for a couple of days. Not only was she up there but she had to be quiet during the day so no one will know they are up in the attic. Naother reason I want to write about her. Her story is mjust unbelievablde and catches the readers attention and keeps you on the edge of your seat. And once youre drawn in there is no losing interest. The rising action and conflict is so powerful that it will have you biting your nails. And this story has done those things for over 68 years. The fact that she could have gone on to be one of the greatestwriters in the world, or went on to start a revoluition on the haulocaust. There are many what ifs to her story. And my final reason is because in her story she always had a positive attitude no mateer what the circumstances. The question is how do you have an attitude like that while being hunted and hiding in an attic? In conclusion I think this story is one of the most interesting out of all that I have written. When a story has love,warfare, and family, its kind of hard not to write about...
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...Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager who was forced into hiding at age thirteen during the Holocaust. She hid in a secret annex located behind Anne’s father’s office. She lived in the annex for about two years with her immediate family along with four others. During this time she wrote in her diary about her thought and experiences. The annex was mentally and physically detrimental due to the lack of nutrition, bad living conditions, and constant exposure to tension. The Diary of a Young Girl is the translated version of Anne Frank’s diary. It gives insight of what life was like through the eyes of a mature teenager. In her diary, Anne has a list of rules and conditions of the annex in which she is staying in. She called it the “Prospectus and...
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...relationships between dramatist . Anne Frank is known as the girl who wrote the most famous diary of the century during World War II and she was the was most affected out of all the people living in the annex. Right after Anne’s thirteenth birthday they immediately went into hiding, but once they hid they never came out the same. When Mr. Dussel was first introduced to the annex, he told everyone what was happening outside, that hundreds of Jews were being exiled every day just like the Native Americans walking the trail of tears. This is when it all started with Anne. Firstly Anne had horrid nights in the annex, her dreams were turning into nightmares. At first she didn't know what was going on and why they moved into the annex....
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...Each page of a “Diary of a Young girl,” consists of Anne Frank’s resilience. Her bravery has been known throughout the world for over 70 years. The three crucial ways Anne was resilient during times of desperate measures was she was very flexible from day one, she had perseverance to overcome her challenges and she used creativity to produce inspiring thinking. Anne Frank was a jewish girl who wrote a diary documenting her life while she was hiding in the secret annex. She is the most well known victim from the Holocaust because of her diary. From 1942-1944 Anne and her family spent their days hiding in the attic of the building her father worked in, until they were betrayed in August 1944. Although she did not survive the Holocaust, the mark...
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...that’s still left in an around you and be happy.” This quote is by Anne Frank, a girl of Jewish descent who experienced first hand the harsh realities of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a catastrophic event that shook the entire world, as Adolf Hitler demanded the execution of several million European Jews. Hitler deemed the Jews as those of an inferior race who served as a threat to purity of the German community according to history.com. On biography.com it indicated that Anne’s real name was Annelies Marie Frank. It also stated that she was born on June 12, 1929. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany but as anti-semitic pressures increased in their home country they moved to the Netherlands. Anne lived with her two parents and her sister, Margot, in Amsterdam in the time leading up to Nazi Occupation preceding WWII. During World War II, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding along with another family when she was thirteen as to avoid persecution by the Nazis. They remained in hiding for two years, during which Anne documented her thoughts and feelings into a red-checkered diary that she received for her 13th birthday. This diary became the famous work we know today as The Diary of Anne Frank. The Frank family’s hiding place was discovered when she was fifteen and her entire family was shipped to the Auschwitz death camp. Her family was then separated and sent to different concentration camps. Anne...
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...Anne Frank was the most influential person of the 20th century because of the way she explained what was going on of World War II. Her diary explained how Jew’s was going through a horrible experience. Anne Frank influenced people learning how discrimination was affected during the 1940’s. Anne Frank gave people by giving a little knowledge about her life was, emotional impact, history how Nazis treated the Jew’s, her showing her bravery, and Anne Frank helped the world understand that 6 million Jews was killed in the Holocaust. By Anne famous diary, Anne Frank helped the world understand that 6 million Jews was killed in the Holocaust. Since the persecution of Jew’s in the Netherlands was extremely similar to the early persecution of Jew’s in Germany, the Franks could foresee that just like it had for the Jew’s in Germany. Anne Frank gave people by giving a little knowledge about her life emotion impact. Anne and her family lived in the secret Annex for three years with 8 people; 1994 all 8 people had been arrested sent to Auschwitz and was all split up. Anne was 13 years old when she and her family went in hiding. That did not stop her from being who she was very strong and brave. She also influenced people about Nazis conquering. She helped teach people that the Holocaust died in that camp, it was a horrible thing. Without her diary the world would never know the intensity of the pain and suffering abused during this time. Anne Frank was born in 1929...
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...own life. In the Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, a girl named Anne Frank gets a diary and writes about her life during the time of World War 2. She is hiding in this place called the Secret Annex. Along with her parents. Also, another family arrives with them, the Van Daans. Along with their son Peter and their cat Mouschi. During the story, Anne will show a lot of her being positive, but mostly with Peter and his father Otto Frank. Anne remains positive in this environment by wanting to dance with Peter. She remains positive so she can get distracted and not worry about what's going on outside of the Secret Annex. She also acts positively because she is an innocent person. “Peter, where are you going? Come dance with me.” (230). Anne tries to provoke Peter so he can get angry. Also, so Peter can get in trouble and Anne won’t. Anne turns happy after she gets frustrated for a while. In the story, there is a scene when Anne see’s Peter for the first time. Anne gets’s excited because Peter has a cat. Anne is all happy because she had a cat before she went into hiding. But Peter shows Anne a bad attitude because he doesn’t really like Anne....
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...What would it be like to be kept hidden and protected from a war zone, yet you still know what’s going on outside? Could life on the outside of a safety zone affect how life is on the inside? Anne Frank and the people from the Secret Annex were hidden from the outside world, but they still knew what was happening, and knowing what was going on caused them to change. The Historical Events from the Holocaust shaped the character’s feelings and caused people to do unnormal things in the play of Anne Frank. Character’s Feelings were changed by the historical events that happened during the holocaust. Anne Frank’s feelings of safety were changed by her fear of the Nazis. {Pg. 130- Mr. Dussel brought this information} “You don’t realize...
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...Imagine a war was happening in your city and all you heard were bombs and missiles, this is was the life of a brave 13 year old girl. THE DIARY OF A YOUNG Girl by Anne Frank is a Nonfiction diary which is about a girl named Anne Frank, she tis 13 years old and is hiding from the Nazi’s, who want to take her and her family to the concentration camps which will eventually kill her, but she is was being brave. Anne Frank’s purpose is to document her experience in the annex and what she was doing to stay optimistic. Anne Frank is being brave in the secret annex, where she was hiding to not get found by the Nazie who want to kill her because Hitler wanted “the perfect commentary” and that didn’t include Jewish people, ”Oh, kitty the best part of...
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...Anne throughout her journey in the secret annex has changed in many ways that have shaped her personality and her perspective towards things, that help her become a young woman even at the age of fourteen. When she envisions herself , how she is different from her old self, and how she is different from the image of her mother. Frank quotes “That is all I was-a terrible flirt, coquettish and amusing.”- “I know quite well that the circle around me would be much smaller.”(Frank 178). The author uses these quotes to show that the Anne in 1942, was a girl who had many friends, and one that was amusing. Now she would have fewer friends if she wasn’t in the annex because she has matured. The author shows how different Anne and her mother are by...
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...Youth, inspiration, and enthusiasm, were all traits of the young woman named Anne Frank. This young girl was living in what was known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was basically a time period where Hitler, a discriminating dictator, had blamed the loss of world war one on the innocent religion of Judaism. As a punishment for making Germany lose world war one, Hitler and his harlequin worshippers tracked down people of the Jewish religion and sent them to work camps. These camps were eventually named concentration camps. These were not enjoyable and soothing, for they were areas meant for backbreaking, manual labor where dignity, honor, and credence in a marvelous world, would wander off to die an agonizing death. Problematically, Anne...
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...Anne Frank began writing in her diary on June 12, 1942. She received her diary as a birthday present from her father. She writes in her diary for two years, during the hiding from the Nazi’s. Anne lived with 7 other people in the attic of her Father’s, Otto “Pim” Frank, former business. She expresses to us her feelings, thoughts, and her day-to-day routine. As Anne continued to write in her diary, we ascertain that Anne changes and become more mature. Anne also falls in love with Peter van Daan. She talks about their relationship and describes their conversations. In the beginning, Anne was immature and innocent. She was moody and sometimes too opinionated. She tends to annoy most of the people in the secret annex. Anne and her mother’s...
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...TIMELINE OF IMPORTANT DATES May 12, 1889: Otto Frank (Anne‘s father), is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. April 20, 1889: Adolph Hitler is born in Austria. January 16, 1900: Edith Hollander (Anne’s mother), is born in Aachen, Germany. 1914-1918: Otto Frank serves in German Army during WWI as a lieutenant. Adolph Hitler also serves from 1914-1920, as a Corporal. November 11, 1918: The Armistice which ends World War I is signed. June 23, 1919: Germany accepts the Versailles Treaty. September 12, 1919: Hitler joins the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. January 1923: The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), known as the Nazi Party, holds its first rally in Munich. May 12, 1925: Otto Frank and Edith Hollander are married in Aachen, Germany. July 18, 1925: Mein Kampf, Hitler’s autobiography and anti-Semitic plan, is published. February 16, 1926: The Franks’ first daughter, Margot, is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. June 12, 1929: The Franks’ second daughter, Anneliese Marie or Anne, is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. July 31, 1932: The Nazis receive 37.3 percent of the vote and are asked to form a coalition government. January 30, 1933: Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. February 1933: Freedom of speech and assembly is suspended by the Nazi government. March 1933: The Gestapo, or Secret State Police, is established. Dachau, the main concentration camp for...
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...There are not a lot of people that I could live with in such a small place as the Secret Annex. In the play The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, we learn about Anne Frank and the people she was in hiding with such as Mrs. Van Daan. I find Mrs. Van Daan hopeless and theatrical. Anne Frank was a positive and optimistic teen. My favorite character in the play is Anne, while Mrs. Van Daan is my least favorite. I chose Mrs. Van Daan as my least favorite character because she was overly dramatic. She is hard to take when she was so dramatic about things and I would find it very hard to live with her. When no one had heard from Miep in three days, everyone was sitting around worried that something had happened. Mrs. Van...
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