The Diary of Anne Frank Essay

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    of BCS had the privilege of seeing the Diary of Anne Frank in play form at the Avon Theatre in Stratford, Ontario. The director Jillian Keiley had started the play by lining out the 19 actors and having them all tell stories from when they were 13. Anne Frank was also thirteen was she went into hiding in the Secret Annex. This gave a sense of understanding the difference between life back in the 1940’s and the life today. The real life story of Anne’s diary starts out by Hitler gaining power in…

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    The Diary of Anne Frank is a nonfiction story almost like an autobiography. In the book Anne faces many hard times because they were in hiding during the holocaust. I think that the theme is that, you should try to be happy even if the situation you are in isn’t the best. Anne tries make the Annex a happy place like when it was Hanukkah and everyone was talking about how they could not get presents that year, and she said “Presents!“. That lifted the spirit of the holiday because everyone…

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    year 1947 rolls by, a dad was able to fulfil his little girl’s wish. That dad was Otto Frank. The Frank family was a Jewish family and was forced to live in hiding till the war was over. Otto’s youngest daughter, Anne, wrote a diary, and Otto published it making her wish come true, which was her being an author. However, not everyone in the Frank family was able to see the war end and was able to see Anne’s diary published. Only Otto survived the war. “Well, we knew that we were going to go…

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    July 9,1942 Anne Frank and her family went into hiding. The reason why they went into hiding made an emotion of grief because Margot ,Anne's older sister, got a call-up notice. That is when you are supposed to get sent to a concentration camp. The euphemism used by the Nazis where "an area free of Jews " and "cleaning operation". The historical content where Anne Frank is writing is in a secret annex in Amsterdam , Netherlands during world war 2.Anne's emotions at the beginning of her diary will…

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    values potentially conflict? How can you reveal the conflicts in those values? Do any of those values conflict with themselves? These are important questions that should be answered in order to have a reasonable conflict. In The Diary Of Anne Frank, pg. 10, paragraph 1, Anne…

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    “Dearest Kitty. . .” the diary entry that began it all, the horrendous pain, yet undetailed historical diary that told the unwritten past. The diary of a young girl who was in hiding from the Nazis; the diary of Anne Frank. Her diary tells the historical past about the event named the Holocaust. In the Holocaust many Jewish people went into hiding, though more, though more than half of the were captured. Anne Frank’s diary follows her experiences and consequences, while being in hiding. Her…

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    taken into hiding for her life. She and her family are in hiding for more than two years with another family and a dentist. During those long years, she waits in fear that everyone in the annex could found. That is what Anne Frank has had to go through. In The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne and the other seven hide in an annex above a warehouse. They hid for their lives, because they were Jewish. As Hitler came into power, he restricted Jews and invaded other countries. Due to this, World War ll had…

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    As reading Anne Frank’s diary, is realize that neither Mrs. Frank nor Margot offer much to Anne in the way of emotional support. Though Anne feels very connected to her father and derives strength and encouragement from him, he is like one’s mother. Living as a Jew in an increasingly anti-Jewish society, in cramped and deprived circumstances, heightens the isolation Anne feels and complicates her struggle for who she is as a person and also questions why Jews are hated by everyone. Feelings of…

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    In the movie The Diary Of Anne Frank you meet different characters with different traits. For example, Peter Van Daan was introduced in the movie. At first he is quiet and shy. When Anne and Peter first met, Peter was hesitant to talk to anyone which led to his mother having to introduce him. Another character that is introduce in the film was Mr. Kraler. Mr. Kraler is the “protector ” of the group. He is also a leader and he would do anything to protect everyone living in the annex. For example…

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    The Diary of Anne Frank is a story of a little girl going into hiding with her family and another family joining them for two years on July 6, 1942. They went into the secret annex for hiding when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands.They were a Jewish family. Anne was born on June 12, 1929, she was 13 years old when she went into hiding. Anne was active, emotional and a little childish. Mr.Frank gave the diary to Anne and she started recording her feelings and observations. Anne had an…

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