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    Introduction The Book Thief is a Bildungsroman of sorts, dealing with the protagonist, Liesel Meminger. The odd narration by Death supplies it with a sense of ambiguity that no other book seems to emulate. This novel regarding the journey of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who was given up by her mother in 1939, she embarks a new life living with Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the humble town of Molching. Liesel’s journey evokes many mishaps and moments of joy; the book…

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    Miep Gies: A Short Story

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    To illustrate, the Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. However, it came to an end when the Nazis were defeated by the Allied powers in 1945. This was a very tough and critical time especially for Jewish people. Approximately two-thirds of the Jews living in Europe were killed by the Nazis and about 11 million people were killed in all, six million of these were Jews. These poor people were put in all kinds of different camps, including concentration, extermination…

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    of a seemingly normal day that leaves us with the expectation of seeing another entry on the next page. Anne’s diary, the observations of an imaginative, friendly, sometimes petty, and rather normal teenage girl, comes to an abrupt and silent end. Otto Frank is the family's sole survivor, and he recovers Anne's diary from Miep.He decides to fulfill the Anne's wishes by publishing the diary. Anne’s diary becomes a condemnation of the unimaginable horror of the Holocaust, and one of the few…

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    Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family consisted of her father Otto Frank who she called Pim, her mother Edith Frank, and her sister Margot Frank. Anne’s full name was Anneliese Marie Frank, but she preferred just Anne. As a young girl Anne had a normal life and lived in an upper middle-class family. She moved to Amsterdam in 1933 where she attended Sixth Montessori School. She lived a perfectly normal childhood with plenty of friends. But that would all soon…

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    Laura Movie Analysis

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    cinematographer of Laura, Lucien Ballard, uses shadow, lighting, high-contrast black and white cinematography. The film received the award for Best Cinematography and was nominated for five academy awards. For those who love a good romantic mystery thriller, Otto Preminger’s “Laura (1944)” will be enjoyed…

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    Imagine going into hiding for months or even years. Imagine having to be completely quiet most of the time because every little noise made could put everyone’s lives in danger. This was the life that many Jews had to live. In 1933, a man by the name of Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and destroyed the lives of many innocent Jewish citizens. One of these people being a young girl named Anne Frank. Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Anne and her family went…

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    events that occurred right under their noses. The story revolutionized the world; movies, radio broadcasts, and a play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett were created to promote Anne and to discuss the terrible journey inscribed in her journal. Once Otto returned to Amsterdam and recovered the diary, he continued the story by adding his own personal words about what had happened to the family; he recognizes Anne’s accomplishments in the last section of the book. He writes on page 283 a few…

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    As Anne Frank once said, “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again,” applies to the screenplay “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett because of the moral that is conveyed to us by the author. The “Diary of Anne Frank” is about a Jewish thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank who goes into hiding with her family and family friends whose names are Mr. Frank, Mrs. Frank, Margot, Mr. Van Dann, Mrs. Van Dann, Peter and Mr.…

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    “Despite everything, I think that people are really good at heart” from Anne Frank. Believing in this message can be hard if you had lived your life in hiding during the holocaust but Anne Frank believed every word. Inspiring, is the best word to describe Anne, she spreads a message through million of people’s hearts, saying that even though people may do horrendous actions, they are all charitable in our hearts. During her life, Anne Frank went through way too much misfortune than any…

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    Anne frank is a true story about a girl named Anne frank who was in hiding for two years in a attic. People like Anne frank can best respond to conflict by staying positive through the most of it. Anne frank kept her hopes up while she was stuck in the attic and she would put postcards on the wall to imagine what it would look like. In I Am Malala , Malala stays with positive thinking even tho she was in the hospital and was shot in the face. Also in The Boy with the striped pajamas shmuel…

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