Diary Of Anne Frank Compare And Contrast

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In this essay, I will be comparing the Diary Of Anne Frank play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich to the original published diary of Anne Frank. I will talk about the differences and similarities in each piece.

In Anne’s diary, it starts out in Anne’s original house, and she receives her diary on her 13th birthday. In the play, it starts as the Franks are getting to the hiding place, and Anne receives her diary as a gift from her dad in a box. I think that the people who wrote the play decided to remove this because it went on for a while. In the diary, she is mostly talking about people and stuff about school before they move to the annex. These things aren’t as important when talking about the Holocaust. It goes on like this for about

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