CUJO AND ANNE FRANK
Claim: How can people best react to conflict ?
Cujo
Cujo is a 1981 psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a rabid dog. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982, and was made into a film in 1983. In this story there is a rabid dog that attacks people. The main characters are Donna Trenton and her son. In here I will describe Donna’s actions to respond the conflict.
In Cujo, Donna Trenton was facing a difficult situation, she was reacting by making decisions to protect her son. Donna’s behavior changes along the story goes on, first her behavior is normal but it rapidly changes when Cujo attacked her family, her behavior then is frightened, scared, she was in shock, she first acted like …show more content…
In this story Anne Frank was reacting to the problem she was involved by writing about it, describing, giving details about what was happening at her surroundings. She was reacting in her way. In the diary of Anne Frank she is in the middle of the war, in the middle of the conflict, she is positive and talks positively in her entries and she gives examples of how she looks in an optimist way the situation she was living in. As in Cujo, this event affected on the daily life of the victim. Her family was forced to hide, because Nazis were sending Jews in trains to concentration camps, and she look in a good way the situation, the conflict, she was not complaining with the conflict neither something like that, in place of that she was trying to superate bad times. Comparing this with Cujo, in Anne Frank things are more realistic, and the situation has more impact because the world war is what is happening, so Anne Frank’s reaction is incredible, instead of being sad and crazy, she wrote calmed down describing the events but also preoccupied and concerned of what was happening around her, she knew the risks that existed because of being Jew. Unfortunately Anne Frank can’t do something, but at least she express her feelings, and describe the events by writing her famous diary in which she talks about the war until she was captured by Nazis in the concentration camp. The diary of Anne Frank has