The Diary of Anne Frank by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett includes dramatic license which is unjustified because of Anne Frank: The biography by Melissa Müller because the people are shown with different personalities, some events were not present, and the people in the annex were given inaccurate emotions. The change made to Mr. Van Daan’s personality causes the reader to believe that he is a horrible person. He has been shown as this rude, selfish person because He was shown stealing the bread from the cabinet. Mrs. Frank says “The bread! He was stealing the bread” Goodrich and Hackett (425). Mr. Van Daan is stealing the bread which they thought was a rat but he wanted food for himself and not saving
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Goodrich and Hackett didn’t show the S.S officer having emotions which gives the reader a better background of the officer. The officers yell, “Open up! You in there! Open up! Quickly! Quickly! Quickly!” (Goodrich and Hackett 433). The officers weren’t really shown on how they felt about all of that, but they were only shown as normal police. Only that the officers were yelling for the people in the annex to come out. They didn’t show everything the S.S officers actually did. Although Goodrich and Hackett changed the play to make it more interesting, doesn’t mean they were giving us all the facts. Many pieces were shown as the reader built the S.S officers up in Melissa’s facts. The S.S officer was shown as a normal, emotional person when he saw that Mr. Frank used to be an officer. Then the officer states, “Silberbauer struggles with himself, then says in a chocked voice, ‘Take your time.’ Is he about to lose self-control? Has something touched him? While the assistants guard the captives, he retreats down stairs” (Müller 10). The officer knows what he has to do but he starts to feel for him because he is a higher class officer. He starts to feel for him because of his family, the officer usually goes in like a robot and takes them out so he doesn’t have to deal with his feelings but when he saw the family and the officer trunk his feelings started taking over. The S.S officer
Goodrich and Hackett didn’t show the S.S officer having emotions which gives the reader a better background of the officer. The officers yell, “Open up! You in there! Open up! Quickly! Quickly! Quickly!” (Goodrich and Hackett 433). The officers weren’t really shown on how they felt about all of that, but they were only shown as normal police. Only that the officers were yelling for the people in the annex to come out. They didn’t show everything the S.S officers actually did. Although Goodrich and Hackett changed the play to make it more interesting, doesn’t mean they were giving us all the facts. Many pieces were shown as the reader built the S.S officers up in Melissa’s facts. The S.S officer was shown as a normal, emotional person when he saw that Mr. Frank used to be an officer. Then the officer states, “Silberbauer struggles with himself, then says in a chocked voice, ‘Take your time.’ Is he about to lose self-control? Has something touched him? While the assistants guard the captives, he retreats down stairs” (Müller 10). The officer knows what he has to do but he starts to feel for him because he is a higher class officer. He starts to feel for him because of his family, the officer usually goes in like a robot and takes them out so he doesn’t have to deal with his feelings but when he saw the family and the officer trunk his feelings started taking over. The S.S officer