...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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...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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...In The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne explains how she wants to live even after she dies. She wants to share her personal stories about the war and how she got through it. The Diary Anne wrote has been published all over the world, and I think that her whole life and her family's life in the diary would be different if Anne and her family would have all survived. Anne Frank has indeed lived after her death. The story was published and millions of copies were distributed so everyone knew how Anne lived her life in hard times. Even though, Anne died in a concentration camp very weak, she will be remembered as strong for enduring the Germans and staying with Margot until she died. When the play was shown in Germany many people came to watch it. They...
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...The Diary of Anne Frank Would you family have the strength to sacrifice everything to stay together? The Frank family did. On July 5,1942 Margot Frank, a shy, sixteen year old was ordered to report to a work camp in Germany. To keep his family united Otto Frank decided to go into hiding in a secret annex located in Amsterdam, Holland with his wife Edith and his two daughters Margot and Anne. The Franks were later joined by the Van Daan Family, which included Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son Peter. Then, Mr. Jan Dussel was the last person to live in the secret annex. These eight people had to live together for more than two years. They had become one big family. The main character Anne, an out-going, loud, sociable, thirteen year old found support to get through the two long years from her father, her older sister Margot, and Peter Van Daan. A father and his daughter have a relationship that nobody and nothing can break. A father and daughter relationship is made up of love, respect, and trust. These three words are the key attributes that make Anne and her father’s relationship so special and unbreakable. Many scenes in the play led to conclude that one of the reasons Anne had the strength to keep a positive attitude and never lose hope during the two years in hiding is because of her father. In Act 1 Scene 2 Anne received a special present from her father. Something that she had always longed for, a diary. This diary was extra special to her because it was given to...
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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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...Dr. Seuss once said “ The more you read, the more you will know, the more you learn, the farther you will go.” Do you think reading is important? Do you think it can change lives? For those of you who do, you’re not alone. Reading helps increase your knowledge. It increases your abilities to do certain things. I know for a fact that that reading can change your life. Not only can it do that but there’s a possibility it can change your perspective. “ The Diary of Anne Frank.” Was written by Anne Frank herself. It was her real diary that she wrote in before she died in a concentration camp in 1954. Her death was not long after her sisters’. They lived a horrible life due to the fact that they were Jewish. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, was the only...
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..."The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." The people who had to live in the Annex didn't get the luxury non-Jewish people got. Freedom was one of those things and they couldn't bring their belongings. The people in the Annex, as well as every Jewish person, had to live in fear every day. During their stay in the Annex, there was a girl named Anne Frank who wrote the "Diary of Anne Frank." In the Annex Anne's description of the Annex was scary and she was scared for her life. Her father Mr. Frank chose the secret Annex to hide because Miep worked below them. As long as they had Miep they could get their supplies. Also, with the help of Miep they were able to...
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...million of those victims were jewish " Annelies Marie Frank a jewish girl went into hiding during World War I to avoid the Nazis.Anne and seven other people were hiding in a secret annex on the Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. A little after two years in hiding they were discovered and deported to concentration camps. Anne’s father named Otto Frank, is the only one of the eight people to survive. After her death Anne became famous for the diary she wrote of her personal experiences in hiding. June 12, 1929 Anne was born, In the town of Frankfurt, Germany. Her father’s family lived here for generations. Anne’s had a sister named Margot. Otto Frank her father and the mother Edith. As the economy and war got bigger an Hitler’s power started rising , the family along with many other German Jews decides to leave Germany along with their almost perfect life....
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...Anne frank was a Jewish girl who went into hiding for two years, in fear of being sent away to a camp, or suffer a slow, painful death in a gas chamber during the Holocaust. Was she captured or kept hidden away? This is her first person experience of the Holocaust based on her diary “The diary of Anne Frank “. Anne Frank was a young, adventurous, and religious girl born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. She was mischievous and curious. But soon Germany became a dangerous place for Jews, and , Margot, Annes sister, received a deportation letter and her family figured out that if they hide in Otto’s(Anne’s dad) annex behind his office workplace, they can stay alive and together for a few more years. Thusly, on her 13th birthday, Anne...
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...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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...The Diary of A Young Girl is a book about Anne Frank, a thirteen year old girl who is forced to go into hiding with her family. They hide in a small secret annex above Otto Frank’s (her father) office where they had food and supplies in stock. She names her diary Kitty, and writes in it for almost two years. Some news from the radio makes it into her diary, her friendship with Peter van Daan – a teenage boy also in hiding with Anne- as well as her feelings about living In the annex with her family, another family known as the van Daan’s as well as a companion, Mr.Dussel. Anne begins her diary by saying that she wants to confide in the journal like no other. She has never been able to confide in someone like she wants to in this diary that she received for her thirteenth birthday. She starts writing on Sunday June 14th, 1942. In the first section of the diary, she writes about her childhood- her family moved to Holland because her father found a job with a Dutch company. She also has a German background, but is Jewish. She attended a Jewish Lyceum there. She introduces her friends, and all the fun activities she does with them like getting ice cream, going on ferries, and gets treats from secret admirers. She explains how she has some family still in Germany, some who fled to North America, and how her grandmother came with her family to Holland. Anne reveals that the Germans are making all the Jews wear big yellow starts on their shirts so they are easily pointed out. In...
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...their 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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...you are. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” the authors, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, reveal the personalities and traits of the characters Mr. Frank, Anne Frank, and Peter Van Daan. These aspects of the characters are unveiled by the interactions between each other and their dialogues. In the first three scenes of the play, you can observe Mr. Frank to be caring and welcoming especially with the arrival of Mr. Dussel. Mr. Frank knew the struggles that might arise with the addition of Mr. Dussel in the annex yet he still took him in because he knew it was the right thing to do. He welcomed Mr. Dussel with opened arms and with no hesitation. “Mr. Kraler: ...I know it’s a terrible thing to ask of you, living as you are, but would you take him in with you?” “Mr. Frank: Of course we will.” Mr. Frank was also a very intelligent man. This is expressed through a brief conversation between Mr. Frank, Mrs. Van Daan, and Peter Van Daan. This conversation includes Mrs. Van Daan asking Mr. Frank if he can assist...
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...Lying can be justified when you are going it to help someone else out. Or if it is to protect someone other than yourself. In the “Diaries of Anne Frank” she explains that people lied to help her and her family. The family protecting the Franks lied to help them even though there lives were at risk. This shows that sometimes to protect other people, it’s okay to lie. In article 1 paragraph 2 a survey by the AP-Ipsos poll said that ⅔ poll said that it was okay to lie to help somebody out. I also think that it is okay that if you make a mistake you can lie to save a relationship. So in another AP-Ipsos poll in paragraph 7 of article 1 65% of people said it was okay to lie to avoid hurting someone's feelings. So sometimes that means that you...
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...The diary of a young girl The holocaust for everyone was a terrible thing and horrible things happened to innocent people all because of the Nazis. Then why pick the Jewish people for random reasons? What was the point of the struggle and fights? Was it worth it? Why take away adults lives and children’s like Anne Frank? Anne Frank was just an ordinary girl during the holocaust, but with her diary and the information that was given away, and how well written the diary was she became famous in our century. How Anne frank describes everything as she did and how she told the story she made the diary so explainable. Could such a thing happen again, the Holocaust could happen again? Our decision defines us from making the choices that could help...
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