Elie Wiesel's The Diary Of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank is about a girl that kept a diary while hiding from Nazi’s in Amsterdam for two years. The diary ends when the Nazi’s found her and her family. Her whole family was killed in exception for her father. She was given the journal on her thirteenth birthday. She simply summarized her life for two years in this phenomenal journal.

A multitude of people nowadays choose their favorite songs because of how they sound and the attractiveness of the singer. However, some people select their favorite songs because of its appeal by relating to their personalities and feelings. Just as songs can relate to people, they can express countless similarities with stories as well. When it comes to the story, The Diary of Anne Frank, there are a variety of characters and events that songs can relate to. The songs “Chocolate Rain”, “The Last Goodbye”, and “Lost Cities”, verbalize numerous commonalities with The Diary of Anne Frank.

The play of Anne Frank tells the story of Anne and how her family survived the time they did in the Holocaust. In this play, Anne and her family move to an annex along with some of their friends where they have trouble getting along at first, but as the play goes on they begin to adjust. While the play of Anne frank is the story of a teenage girl’s life during the Holocaust, the book of Night is the story of Elie Wiesel who is a teenage boy’s life during the Holocaust. In Night Elie lives in the concentration camps and must work while receiving small rations of food. Although the play of Anne Frank and the book of Night differ in religious beliefs and family relationships, both focus on surviving the Holocaust and staying close to their families.

The Diary of Anne Frank, by frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, is about a young girl named

Anne Frank 's life has impacted the lives of others because, her family background, Anne 's time in hiding, and what she expressed in her diary. Without Anne we would never know what life was like in the holocaust, from a personal standpoint. It came from the pages of a diary belonging to a young Jewish girl, Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank has been read by hundreds of millions of people around the world since the end of World War II.

The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank tells the story of a young girl who goes into hiding during the Holocaust. In this play, Anne writes in her diary the details of what it’s like to go into hiding. In 1942, it was not only Anne who was struggling to survive, there was a boy, Elie Weisel, who was not in hiding, he was in a concentration camp. In this book that he wrote called Night, he talks about the details and struggles of being in the concentration camps. Although the play and Night have different settings, both works focus on the same conflicts and themes.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s the world experienced very traumatic events. Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany. He banned all political parties, except the Nazis. Two of the families that were affected by his changes were the Franks and the Van Daans. Anne Frank was a member of the Frank family. Her family and the Van Daans experienced what was happening personally. During the time that she was forced to go into hiding, she kept a diary with her. The diary has become very important item for learning about the events that happened. Historical events are reflected in the play “The Diary of Anne Frank” by showing how what’s happening in the outside world affects the families that have had to go into hiding.

To a large extent, Anne Frank’s diary explains what life was like for Jewish families during the second world war.

Many people were hurt by Adolf Hitler's plans and one thing he achieved was killing six million Jewish people including children. Anne Frank and her family were one of them. They lived in a secret and tiny annex where Otto used to work. They started off just going to stay there for a few months till the Allied Forces could invade Holland but that didn’t work out. In the drama wrote by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett eight people crowded into annex for 2 long years not being able to go outside. Many historical events were impacted in the drama Anne Frank. Even though these problems took place outside of the secret annex it changed the mood and relationships of the character.

June twelfth 1942 It’s Annelies Marie franks birthday or as we all know her as Anne frank. For her birthday she receives from her father a Autograph book Bound with white and red checkered cloth With a small lock.This autograph book is what will become her very well known Diary.Anne started writing in her diary almost as soon as she got it.One of the first things she writes about in her diary is about the changes that have taken place in the Netherlands since the German occupation.On June 20th of 1942 she listed all of the restrictions on the Jewish population. Not to long later Margot Frank got a notice from the Jewish emigration on July 1942 ordering her to go to A work camp so Otto Frank decides that him along with his family was going to go into hiding.Otto frank makes all the preparation for them to go into hiding along the Amsterdam canals and in which prim will have his most trusted employees would help them While in hiding.

In the play called, “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the Van Daan’s son, Peter, cuts off the Star of David on his shirt. Shorty after, Anne begins to cut her star off as well. Once her star was off, Anne says, “It’s funny, I can’t throw mine away. I don’t know why” (Goodrich 709). Peter doesn’t like Anne’s decision, he thinks that she’s out of her mind, so he begins to question it. Peter reacts to this by saying, “You can’t throw . . . ? Something they branded you with . . . ? That they made you wear so they could spit on you?” (Goodrich 709). From his point of view, Peter thinks that the right thing to do is to burn it, after the way they’ve been treated by the Nazis. He sees the star as a symbol of embarrassment

In the play is says. “I never thought i’d live to see the day when a man like Mr.Frank would have to go into hiding…” (Hackett pg. 110). This changes the mood in the secret annex because it took the hope that one day they may exit the annex and be free. The people living in the annex have nothing but dreams that in the future things will get better, and when this was said it made the characters realize the harsh sad reality that they live in. Even though they don’t fully understand the meaning of going into hiding yet, they do know that it’s going to be a rough and a suspense full time in the secret

In the “ Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank, she stated “I could go on for hours about all the suffering the war has brought, but then I would only make myself more dejected. There is nothing we can do but wait as calmly as we can till the misery comes to an end. Jews and Christians wait, the whole earth waits; and there are many who wait for death.” Anne Frank states that the Holocaust was a very traumatic event that happened to all the people residing in Germany apart from the Jews. The Holocaust consisted of different types of violences from killing people starting with the Jews, gas chambers and putting them in concentration camps.

The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert hackett. I am doing topic B.Mr.Frank was a great leader his decisions were really good especially about the thief like here.”(Mr.Frank getting a flashlight) I'm going down”. He was brave on how he went down to check to see if the thief was still there and the moment when they got caught he said something amazing right here. For the past two years we lived in fear now we can live in hope.”he was brave all through the play. You need to be brave if you are going to be leader.he made some good decisions like when the just got a cake the went crazy and he calmed them down like here.”Do you see what a piece of cake does to us?It goes to our heads.” He knew how to deal with all of these situations

Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl should be used as a social studies book for multiple different reasons. For example, even though Anne is in hiding, she still is able to talk about the war and what is happening outside of the annex. On Friday, 9 June, 1944, Anne talks about the war by saying, “Super News of the invasion. The Allies have taken Bayeux, a small village on the French coast, and are now fighting for Caen”. On Tuesday, 6 June, 1944, the only thing Anne is talking about in this entry is D-day, a very important event in WWII. In Anne’s Wednesday, 13 January, 1943, she says, “And every night hundreds of planes fly over Holland and go to German towns… and every hour hundreds and thousand of people are killed in Russia and Africa…