The Secret Annex Character Analysis

Staying in an annex for two years without going outside may have been uncomfortable, but it gave everyone a better chance at survival. Character interaction, stage directions, and Anne’s diary are three significant ways historical events are portrayed in The Diary of Anne Frank. This play shows the reader that history can be written in many different

When Anne first arrives at the annexe, she’s open to others and tells her family what she’s been thinking about. At the beginning of the book Anne says “I went upstairs and visited the Van Daans. I do so occasionally to have a chat”(Frank, pg.29). This is an example of her being open to others because she’s reaching out to the Van Daans to get to know them better. Anne was also not very fond of Mrs. Van Daan. She thought of her as rude and insulting and told her family what she thought about her. An example is when she says “I get nothing but blow ups from her for my continuous chatter. She is always pestering us in some way or another”(Frank, pg.27). The next paragraph goes deeper into the

Dussel's news. Mr. Dussel is one of the new people that join Anne's family in hiding. When Mr. Dussel moved in, he told the Franks and Van Daans about everything he knew about outside. When Anne heard that her friend was take away to the concentration camp, she felt heartbroken and started to tear up. She wasn’t a person who got emotional but after hearing the horrible news, she felt miserable.

Among the Hidden is a science fiction novel written by Margaret Peterson Haddix, published in 1998. Luke Garner is hiding from the Population Police. He meets a brave girl named Jen, who wants to revolt against the government because she is a third child like Luke. The Garners live on a farm in a community where families can only have two children. In the fall, the woods behind twelve-year-old Luke’s house are destroyed. Luke must stay hidden!

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

In John Updike’s short story “A & P”, a dynamic and round character expresses his subjective attitude towards his views, a plot twist causes him to realize his future. Sammy an opinionated cashier at A & P grocery store does not agree with his Lengel, his manager after he reprimands a particular group of customers at the store. Sammy’s further actions cause him to face the true reality of his future.

Have you ever wondered if Peter Vann Daan and Anne Frank are alike? There are many ways that they are the same and different. Their personalities, the way they act, and their feeling towards things are what make them unique.

Act II scene 3 of the play version of The Diary of Anne Frank is about Mr. Van Daan being caught stealing food and the events that follow shortly after. When everyone is asleep, Mr. Van Daan tries to steal bread but is caught by Mrs. Frank. Enraged, Mrs. Frank wakes the others in the annex and begins to speak about how she wants Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan to leave the annex and never come back. Mr. Frank and the others try to calm her down and change her mind but to no avail. In the midst of this commotion Miep arrives with news about the war. She tells them that the allies’ invasion of Normandy, also known as D-Day, has begun. Everybody rejoices and Mrs. Frank and Mr. Van Daan apologize for their behavior.

I enjoyed the playwrights adding in Mr. Van Daan stealing food. It changed the whole mood of the story. Everyone liked Mr. Van Daan until they saw that side of him. Everyone was arguing with each other. Anne was mad at her mother because she didn’t want Peter to go. Mrs. Frank was mad at Mr. Van Daan because she felt her family had been mistreated.

Mr. Frank thinks the war will end soon, but the level of anxiety in the annex increases. Anne is frightened by the sound of gunfire one night, so she crawls into her father’s bed for comfort. Another night, Peter climbs up into the loft and a rat bites his arm. Mr. Dussel often writes letters to his wife and to others outside, and Mr. Frank demands that he stop. The residents have another scare when they think they hear burglars in the building. After that incident, the clock suddenly stops chiming, which also upsets Anne. Later, the residents hear a radio announcement that all Jews must be deported from Utrecht and the other provinces of the Netherlands by the beginning of

and Mrs. Frank sleep in the main area. Mr. Frank answers their questions, that “Please. I’ve thought this out for weeks. It’s the best arrangement. The only arrangement,” (Goodrich, PDF 707). Instead of making the Van Daans sleep in the main room, the Franks sacrifice their own living space for the other family. They are willing to give away their own comfort and personal needs for the Van Daans to have their own privacy. Meanwhile, later on, a woman, Miep, brings things for the group in the annex, while risking her life to do so. We hear this in one of Anne Frank’s diary entries. She writes that, “The people from whom Miep got our ration books have been arrested. So we have had to cut down on food supply,” (Goodrich, 497). Miep had been risking her life to get these ration books, illegally, for the family, and now has to find a way to get more food for the family while Mr. Kraler, another caretaker of the family, is in the hospital. Miep had befriended Anne and the family, and was willing to put everything on the line just for them. On more recent terms, a football coach of the recent Florida school shooting, was truly a hero and sacrificed his own life for the students of the school. In the

In the Diary of Anne Frank, the two characters I chose to compare and contrast are Mrs. Frank and Mrs. Van Daan. These two ladies are similar and different in many ways. They are both middle aged women that live in Amsterdam. When the Holocaust began in 1939, Mrs. Frank and Mrs. Van Daan moved into the secret Annex with their families.

Mrs. Frank is more modest than Mrs. Van Daan. Mrs. Frank does not flirt with the other men. Mrs. Van Daan on the other hand she pulls her shirt up in front of Mr. Frank and doesn’t even care. Mrs. Van Daan she is sassy but Mrs.

While staying in the annex Anne has made a new friendship with Peter (Hackett and Goodrich). Them becoming friends made living in the annex more bearable, for both Anne and Peter. Anne has also improved her relationship with her mother. Their relationship grew by her and her mother trying to understand each other more. Her and her father’s relationship grew more also. Anne would always go to her father for advice or just to make her feel better when her mother or other people living in the annex would make comments about her and how she should be

About two months after moving in, a local Jewish dentist friend of Miep’s fiance, Dirk, is in trouble. He needs a hiding place, and fast. Mr. Kraler comes to ask if he could hide with them in the annex. After talking it over, they decide it’s the right thing to do. His name is Mr. Dussel. They arrange for him to room with Anne and for Margot to move in with in their parents’ room. Mr. Dussel brings them information from the outside. He tells them about how Jews are being pulled away from their homes and taken off to camps. Mr. Dussel becomes a normal residence of the annex very soon. With time he becomes more and more rude to them, and insensitive.