Hatred Against Differences While I was reading the Diary of Anne Frank, One disturbing moment in the Diary of Anne Frank is when I thought that the nazi’s were coming. Everybody was having a great time then they heard someone down by the radio. Some of the people in the secret annex were scared when Mr.Frank went downstairs. Then they found out it was a thief downstairs who stole the radio and some money. When Mr.frank came back and said there was a robber, the people were scared because if the robber got caught robbing he could bail out by telling the green police were some jews are hiding. One other disturbing fact in this story is when Anne frank had a dream of the green police coming to get her. The reason she could have got
Fear was a perpetual theme in Act I of The Diary of Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank is a play based on the life of Anne Frank. The play was adapted from Anne Frank’s diary by Albert and Francis Goodrich Hackett. The play follows the life of Anne Frank, a 13-year-old Jewish girl living during the time of the holocaust. In Act I, it shows that the Franks are going into hiding in the attic of an office building with the Van Daans, their family friends.
In “The Diary of Anne Frank” there are many different objects and people that are symbolic to something abstract. One example of symbolism in Anne’s diary is when her and Peter have a discussion about the star of David. In the play and throughout World War II the star of David symbolizes a deep hatred. It represents a deep hatred because during the time of WWII with the Jews getting murdered and sent to concentration camps they were forced to wear garments with the star sewn onto them. Anne records, “You can’t throw…? Something they branded you with…? That they made you wear so they could spit on you” (Pg 709 P.22). This quote justifies that while wearing the star of David the Jews won’t receive respect and they will be treated with rude and
In 1933, the nazi took power in Germany, which cause depression to a lot of people. At the beginning, Nazi defy the Jews, Gypsies, and the disabled. In March 1933, the first concentration camp was built and later on more concentration and death camps were made. A family named the Franks went into hiding with the Van Daans in Amsterdam. In “Anne Frank” the characters face adversity and conflict like man vs self, man vs nature, and man vs man that makes the “Diary of Anne Frank” a wonderful story.
In the popular book and story of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl there are many themes present throughout her journal. It’s a touching piece of literature that puts things into perspective about family, warfare, loneliness, and selfishness. Her diary gives insight about people who are actually living in those circumstances from Anne’s point of view, resulting in a more factual story than fictional novels loosely based on true events. Anne goes through a lot during her time in the Annex, including tense arguments with her family, bombings, thieves, Peter, and Dussel moving in. The events may not seem like that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but to a young girl, it’s a huge change of events. It shows a lot from her in the way she acts, Anne’s selfishness proving that stress and war can change people to be more selfish.
Have you ever heard of the Holocaust? The Holocaust was a terrible time in history when Adolf Hitler was torturing many innocent Jews. He put them in concentration camps, but many tried to hid just like Anne Frank and her family. Anne Frank who was Jew, has a famous quote that says “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.” Even though throughout the “Diary of Anne Frank” we see that people are not always the best they could be, I agree with Anne and believe that everyone is still good at heart. One overall reason I chose that people are really good at heart are the acts of kindness Peter has throughout the book to Anne. However, I do know that there are two sides of an argument, I can see how some might
During The Holocost and World war II there is a family that goes into hiding along with another family. A 13 year old girl, Anne Frank and her familly hides in a secret annex behind a bookcase in a warehouse. After two years in the warehouse gets a new owner who tells on the families that are living in the annex. At first they are all sent to a holding camp but soon after they are split up and sent to a work camp. Annes mom is sent to the gas chamber in which she dies at. Anne's sister become extrememly ill with the Typus diease and not long after Anne also gets sick from the same diease. During Anne's stay in the annex she writes in a diary. When her family is foumd it gets left behind and one of the people who helped hid the family kept it for her. Anne's father, the only surviver, reads her diary and publishes it. Her diary
People can only imagine the terrors that the Jews and other ethnic groups had to go through during the Holocaust in World War II. With Anne Frank’s diary, people can finally put themselves into the scene and captivate all the feelings and sentiments that Anne Frank has poured onto the pages. Anne Frank, her family, and their friends were known for hiding from the German Nazis in the Secret Annex for two years from 1942-1944. Innocent and naive,
When Moshe, a foreign Jew, was deported and almost killed by the Nazis told the stories of what he had seen, Elie Wiesel “did not believe [Moshe]…[he] felt only pity for [Moshe]” (Wiesel 6). Wiesel reacted with disbelief refused to believe such horrid stories, and ignored them until it occurred to him that he would be next. Elie Wiesel shows that he is scared of what Moshe says, and deals with this particular conflict with refusal. While Anne Frank experiences the same conflict as Elie does, she reacts to it differently. She was optimistic about hiding and thought of her hiding place as “ a very peculiar boarding house”
In the play, “The Diary of Anne Frank” Mr. Frank said, “ Everyone is motionless, paralyzed with fear.” Correspondingly, because they are fearful, they cannot sleep at night. Anne had nightmares because she was so frightened, she would wake everyone up. Fears in the Annex were vital; no one should ever have to go through
The theme that I will be focusing on is: Fear is not uncommon and it affects many, whether it is their choice or not. Anne Frank was an ordinary Jewish girl living in Holland and going to school with her friends. But one day, Anne and her family are forced to go into hiding from the Nazi’s. They lived in fear that their house would either be bombed or that they would be found and taken to a concentration camp. Most of the entries that Anne Frank kept in her diary indicated she was either in distress or fright.
The Diary of Anne Frank is a remarkably moving book about the short life of a young girl and her family. The Holocaust was a horrible time for Jewish people and Anne and her Jewish family’s lives were completely turned upside down as a result. The war resulted in the deaths of countless people, mostly innocent people. Before the invasion on D-day and the end of the war not too long after, the rest of the world didn’t know the real disaster going on over seas. Anne Frank’s once secret diary has introduced the immense suffering and horror that occurred during the Holocaust.
Parents have been disrespected for a long time, but it is becoming more common now. This is sad because parents are the only reason, apart from God, why they are here on the earth right now. They care for us, and yet we still disrespect them along with other authoritative figures. Children need to abide by God’s fourth commandment; “Honour Thy father and mother.” In the drama “The Diary of Anne Frank” Anne disrespects authority including her mother whom she treats very poorly.
By June 12, 1942, Anne Frank had been alive for thirteen years; as a gift, she received a diary. Her thirteenth birthday present was used to record her thoughts and emotions built up over the two years that she and the others stayed hidden away in the secret annex after her sister, Margot Frank, was called to a German concentration camp. This, an excerpt from Anne Frank 's diary, displays the horror that was felt: “I was stunned. A call-up, everyone knows what that means. Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head.” A normal teenage girl shouldn’t have to endure these types of things. It was courageous of Anne to even write in the diary. She is truthful about the horror of this historical event. She could have left out the gruesome details but if
The Author came out with a strong out look on the situation of Anne Franks Development. Anne Frank was a little girl who lived in Amsterdam with her Father, they lived a normal life until the Holocaust took place and for forced Anne into hiding. Sadly the Nazis found out about the Franks hiding and who they were staying with, Otto Frank was they only one who survived. Anne Frank knew that she would even be living a sad and scary life. "Anne’s Voice. I expect I should be describing what it feels like to go into hiding. But I really don’t know yet myself. I only know it’s funny never to be able to go outdoors . .
This literary work truly shows how Anne Frank was a martyr of racism and an insightful chronicler of her time period and place. The work also shows the typical adolescence of Anne Frank and her constant arguments with her mother in particular. It also deals with the day to day hiding she and her family went through. The only problem with the book is that the fact that Anne Frank rewrote her diary about two months before she was captured because she wanted her journal to be published after the war and she wanted to peruse a career in journalism. Therefore it is hard to tell what existed in her original copy and how much did she add afterwards.