The Anne Frank play is a story about a teen girl growing up in a secret annex during the Holocaust. In this play Anne is struggling to find her true identity while trying to still get along with the seven other people she is living with in the attic. During the holocaust, Anne wasn’t the only one struggling to find herself, so was Elie Wiesel who lived in a concentration camp. Eli was a teenager at the time as well, who was jewish. Although Anne Frank and Elie Weisel have some differences in their character actions and settings, both value their fathers more than anyone else and struggle to survive during the holocaust. Throughout most of the book, while Elie is trying to keep himself alive, he still makes it his largest priority to keep
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Frank, she would do nearly anything to get out of that cramped up annex and be away from her family to be alone for awhile and enjoy the outside. In the play anger builds up inside Anne that has to do with her feelings about being crowded in an annex. In spite of this she releases it on her mother hatefully. On the other hand, Eli would do anything to have another day to spend alone with his whole family, out of Auschwitz. This is because he was separated from his mother and two sisters when he was first ordered into a concentration camp, and his father at the time had been ill. Instead of breaking down any of his family members like Anne broke down her mother, he thrives to keep his father from being separated from him and dying.
In conclusion, Anne was more fortunate in all aspects of life during the holocaust, yet didn’t take much advantage of her resources. Although Elli was less fortunate, he still made the most of everything he had and never lost hope. Since Ellie suffered more than Anne, the book “Night” has given me more of a sense of what happened during the holocaust, so I prefer it over the play “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Therefore, the book “Night” is much more involved in the what happened during the holocaust than the Diary of Anne Frank play and I recommend reading it over watching the
Frank, she would do nearly anything to get out of that cramped up annex and be away from her family to be alone for awhile and enjoy the outside. In the play anger builds up inside Anne that has to do with her feelings about being crowded in an annex. In spite of this she releases it on her mother hatefully. On the other hand, Eli would do anything to have another day to spend alone with his whole family, out of Auschwitz. This is because he was separated from his mother and two sisters when he was first ordered into a concentration camp, and his father at the time had been ill. Instead of breaking down any of his family members like Anne broke down her mother, he thrives to keep his father from being separated from him and dying.
In conclusion, Anne was more fortunate in all aspects of life during the holocaust, yet didn’t take much advantage of her resources. Although Elli was less fortunate, he still made the most of everything he had and never lost hope. Since Ellie suffered more than Anne, the book “Night” has given me more of a sense of what happened during the holocaust, so I prefer it over the play “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Therefore, the book “Night” is much more involved in the what happened during the holocaust than the Diary of Anne Frank play and I recommend reading it over watching the