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    he Diary of Anne Frank is a nonfiction drama by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett; it is about the sadness of the two families, the Van Daans and the Franks in hiding with another person, Dussel. They hide in the spice company that Mr. Frank used to own, inside a door covered by a bookcase that leads to their secret annex. As the families stay in hiding for approximately two long years, they try to find happiness within the cramped space that they are living in. For the most part, those hiding

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    escape and get to safety. However, Jews had to stay in hiding to no be arrested. In the dramatization “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the Franks, Van Daans, and Dussel escaped from the Nazis. They hid in a secret Annex above Mr. Frank’s store. However, they are soon discovered twenty-five months after fleeing and are sent to concentration camps. The drama follows Anne as she struggles with undergoing adolescence while being trapped with six other members for twenty-five

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    Immortalist). WWII was a very rough time for Jewish people especially in Nazi Germany. 11 million, Jewish people, gypsies,homosexuals, etc. died. Anne Frank, was a German-Jewish girl, that was born in Frankfurt Germany. Before the Nazis invaded, the Frank family soon moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Starting with what we are reading. The play Diary of Anne Frank, changes the names of the characters. First, Miep and Mr. Kraler are combined into two people instead of five. Kliemen, Kugler, Jan and Miep

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    order to stay alive. In The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne and her family and another family lived in the loft of Mr. Frank's old warehouse. One night a robber breaks into the warehouse and we believe goes and tells the Nazis and soon after Anne and her family are found and sent to a concentration camp. In “Night” a little boy and his father are in a concentration camp. They go through the selection process and live. The father goes through another

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    The Diary of Anne Frank had many emotions to it. Going to a soothing story then leaving you hooked or seeing the intense strucuture of it all. The story had many various characters and themes that could complement the story in any way. The themes of the historical story make up the story, they let you know what happens next and what’s going on. Also Anne’s personality describes who she really is on the inside and then the out of ropposite of her personality Peter. Finally how the story makes you

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    The Diary of Anne Frank takes place during the Holocaust. When Edith Frank comes into the attic and finds his daughter’s diary, he begins reading aloud. A flashback goes back to two years ago, when the Frank family is hiding in Amsterdam to hide from the Nazis, as the Franks were Jews. However, they have to share their apartment with another family, the Van Daans, and later, with Mr. Dussel. Anne Frank is thirteen years in the beginning of the play, when she is first introduced in Act I scene II

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    Both ¨The Diary of Anne Frank¨ and ¨Freedom Writers¨ illustrate the point that the more time you spend with someone the more you get to know who they really are. ¨The Freedom Writers¨ tells the tale of a teacher that is hired into a gang ridden school split and divided among the students. Mrs. Gruwell, the teacher, has a class full of kids who do not care about school and have their own problems out of school. Because of this Mrs. Gruwell feels the duty to help these kids and try and distract them

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    In the end of the diary of Anne frank she ends with a statement from her diary she writes "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." By reading this we can tell Anne has courage she is a strong independent woman who helps others and she needs no one to hold her hand. She is happy and forgives those who have done wrong because she cares more about others than her own Anne is a very independent girl who doesn't talk much to others and she does her own

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    The Diary of Anne Frank In “The Diary of Anne Frank,” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, explains flashbacks of a young girl and her family being forced into hiding from the Nazis. The main character in the story is a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank, who writes in a diary as she goes through changes in her life because of the Holocaust, and she also wrote about her family's life, things she misses the most, and the least. The authors may have wrote this story that explains very important

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    “The Diary of Anne Frank” 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

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