Frank Darabont

inspiration is from Anne Frank, in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. This girl has documented her experiences from the moment her religious group was being slaughtered by Nazis and went into hiding to when she was captured and sent to a concentration camp. Although she was eventually captured, Anne tried to make the best of it and had a positive attitude, even in the most impossible situations. The impact and thoughts are revealed in words by many people. In Anne Frank: The Diary of an…

In The Diary of Anne Frank, the novel starts off by Anne Frank, herself, celebrating her thirteenth birthday and is given a diary of her own. She describes all of her friends from school that attend her birthday party in a hysterical way. Anne describes her sense of loneliness and feels as if she has no one to confide in. She decides to call this special diary “Kitty.” Anne writes about her family and teaches the reader that she has a mother, father and an older sister named Margot, and that the…

left me forever moved by the story of Anne Frank and the secret annex. The writing on this day was to take the place of the camera I would have used and wanted to document but was not permitted to do so. The next best thing was pen and paper so I entered with the look of seeking answers to questions never even imagined. I started off the day meeting my professor a half an hour late as I lost my way to biking to the house on Princegrattchen St where the Frank family went into hiding. I felt like…

just like people today, but they were lost too soon. Anne Frank, one of those individuals, was a Jewish girl who lived in hiding in an office building with her family during the Holocaust. However, they lived in fear of being discovered. Throughout her living in hiding, Anne documented her life and thoughts in Kitty, a journal, and her stories told an insightful look into life during the Holocaust. The different perspectives in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl informed my own understanding…

“While the standard polarization of human being in a crime story is normally dividing by the law abiding citizens from the criminal, the characters here are soon divided on the basis of sex differences.” (Alkalay) In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” Glaspell uses a murder investigation of a woman’s husband to demonstrate the different roles of men and women in the early 1900’s. Glaspell shows the reader, through small significant objects that the men think are inessential to illustrate the greater…

Designer Devan Kaufman said it best when he declared, “Frank Lloyd Wright houses have always just made sense.” Wright had a way of creating floor plans that was so novice and incredible that anyone of the twentieth century and now could tell that he was the architect of a house just by looking at it. His work was so amazing because of how contemporary and intelligent it was. Wright knew how to do certain things like creating pillars to be soundproof so that you couldn’t hear a busy road just…

teach important morals at the time of their creation. However many of these stories contained one-dimensional, stereotypical characters with simple, almost predictable, plots. This was how many fairy tales were told until 1900 when L Frank Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz. L Frank Baum thought differently of these stories and wanted The Wizard of Oz to be a modernized fairytale. The term modernized, in the context of Baum, pertains to the 20th century, the era in which the books were written. It is…

The film Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantasy drama film set in America, which involves two main characters, Wink and Hushpuppy. Hushpuppy is Wink’s daughter and they both overtake many obstacles together. Spirited away is an animation film whose main characters are a family of three: Chihiro and her parents. The family is moving to another Japanese town when they come across a hidden spirit world that seems like an abandoned theme park. The films Beast of the Southern Wild and Spirited Away…

The one-act play “Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell in 1916 is a play about an on-going crime scene investigation where Mrs. Minnie Wright is accused of having murdered her husband, Mr. John Wright, but no evidence or reasons for her to commit such crime is found by the County Attorney and the Sheriff inside of the house where Mr. Wright’s body was found. In the play, it is shown how Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find a dead bird in the house and decide to hide it from the investigators. As a juror…

Daniel H Burnham and John Wellborn Root are consider to be one of the founding fathers when it comes to advancement towards Chicago architecture. Root was born in Georgia and Burnham born in New York; however, both became native to Chicago at a youth consequently loving the architecture that was there beforehand. Roots had the better recognized education while learning about architecture in school while studying in Liverpool, England and eventually got a degree in civil engineering from New…