The Holocaust has effected the Jews, such as Anne Frank and her family. The Franks had to share a room with the Van Daans. The two fathers act different towards other people defines their personality. While Mr. Frank and Mr. Van Daan have different personalities, they are similar in some ways. Mr. Frank is a nice and caring man.…
Compare and Contrast Essay There is a great deal of things you can differentiate from the Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank and Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. These two books are similar because they take place in the same time frame but different regions when the world was undergoing World War II. These two books document the story of two families that were affected by this time. One distinct part of these two books was that both families were dealing with the war in different strategies.…
The play named The diary of Anne Frank tells the story of a teenage girl who is hiding from the nazis during World War ll. In this play, Anne struggles with growing up and finding her independence while in an attic with seven other people and a cat. In recent years, a movie version of Anne’s life has adapted the ideas and events from this play. In this movie, the audience sees Anne transition from her normal life in Amsterdam to her life in the Secret Annex. Although the play and the movie of Anne Frank’s life have different settings, both have the same characters and conflicts.…
The Holocaust took place from 1939 to 1945, and 6 million Jews were killed during that time. Hitler and the Nazis were responsible for the Holocaust, and many Jews were hiding from them. Three of the people in hiding were Anne and Margot Frank and Peter Van Daan. Their families were in hiding together. Anne, Peter and Margot were all different in many ways, and they learned that when they had to live in hiding together.…
Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley are some of the most known poets around the world. But back in the 1600’s they weren’t considered a poet, let alone a contributor to society. But both of these women became a powerful threat to the men once they both became educated and had an interest in poetry. Bradstreet was a white Puritan who related greek beliefs to her lifestyle and human society as a whole. Wheatley was an African American poet who was a slave, but she wasn’t like the others, she was educated.…
Kirsten Roche Professor So 3/12/17 ENG 204 Compare and Contrast of Edna St Vincent Millay “Letters of Edna St Vincent Millay” by Allan Ross MacDougall is a short review of some of Edna St Vincent Millay’s poems that talks about her dedication and prose. In a journal article, “Edna St. Vincent Millay” by Edward Davison, he goes in depth about Millay’s way to writing, analyzing multiple works and showing the reader how Millay communicates through her language in poems. The articles differ in tone towards Millay but ultimately have the same effect on the audience, which is showing them Millay’s impressive talent. In the review of Millay’s poem, MacDougall talks about the letters she wrote to her family and friends.…
Our class recently read the play and watched the 2009 version movie of The Diary of Anne Frank. In the beginning of the story, we watch the Franks and Van Daans being situated into the Secret Annex. They learned that they must be quiet throughout the course of the workday and their abilities are limited. Such ability is using the washroom. In the middle, conflicts grow between the inhabitants of the annex.…
In comparing both of these stories, the reader sees both of these women isolated themselves from the town and did not follow society’s norms; because of this, both women are almost pitied by the people in their…
The Diary of Anne Frank Compare/Contrast Essay The Diary of Anne Frank is a story about a 13 year old girl who lived during the holocaust. Her and her family were Jewish and were forced into hiding. They along with 4 other people hid in the attic above Mr. Frank’s office, called the “annex”. The Franks, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel lived there for two years without stepping outside and relying on Miep and Mr. Kraler to bring them basic supplies, food, and information about the world. This story is mainly depressing and intense throughout the events.…
Leigh Anne identifies a strength in Michael which is that he isn’t some aggressive, scary, and mean person. She sees him as a gentle, nice, and very caring person who has nothing going well in his life. Others see as some big scary guy and feel unsafe and maybe uncomfortable when he is around them. In the movie she sees Michael talking to her son and that shows her that he isn’t a scary guy, but that he is nice and caring person, which makes her curious about Michael.…
Charles Dicken presents numerous dualities in his book A Tale of Two Cities, one of which are the characters Lucie Manette and Madame Defarge. These two characters represent two very different themes of purity and hatred, respectively, shown by analyzing their physical traits, character traits, and their past. Lucie Manette has the purity of an angel. The first time she is introduced in the book, she is described as “ a short, slight, pretty figure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes…” (Dickens 33).…
Although the two poems were written centuries apart, both of them share the concept of love, and the sense of being completed by the other half. The poem, “To My Dear Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet has more of an intimate tone as it was written for her husband while Elizabeth Browning’s “ How Do I Love Thee” describes love in a more far reaching way. There are a lot more similarities between the two poems, but the most evident among these is that both of them share a happy and a passionate marriage.…
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt Germany on June 12th, 1929. Being a Jew in Europe during this time was difficult and made her life troublesome. Hitler was searching for people of the Jewish religion everywhere. Due to this, at just thirteen years old, Anne had to go into hiding with her father, mother, and older sister. However, in 1945 when Anne was just fifteen, she and the seven other people living in the annex, were found by the Germans and were taken to various concentration camps.…
Fight For Survive American is a mixed state, classified as a result of ethnic reasons, of their skin color, immigration, and wealth gap. This is a real problem, which cannot be avoided. Even the liberation movement in the sixties and seventies had arisen in the last century; no idea has ever been substantive solution. Confrontation continued, war continues, halt the only survival rights. In the movie "Freedom Writers", the students at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, live in such a violent atmosphere.…
Imagine moving from Earth, to a planet where the sun shines once every seven years, and when it isn’t shining its raining. Well that is what the main character of Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer in a Day” had to go through. Margot, the main character, moved from Ohio to the planet Venus, when she was only four years old. She had been living on Venus for about five years and it was hard for her since the sun meant so much to her. She got picked on and bullied a lot, just because she was so obsessed with the sun.…