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The Diary of Anne Frank : Movie V.S. Play Last week, our class viewed the Anne Frank movie, shortly after finishing reading the play. Anne Frank was and still is one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust, a dark and bleak time in human history. Many people know of her time spent in the “Annex”, the attic above her father’s office. But many people don’t know of her life before, or maybe even after she was arrested from the Annex. The last week, we studied the life of this young girl in…

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…

the start of her diary, Anne describes typical girlhood experiences, writing about her friendships with other girls, she crushes on boys, and her academic performance at school. After the German occupation anti-Semitic laws forced Jews into separate schools so, Anne and her older sister, Margot, attended the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam. Some bits of news catch Anne's attention and make their way into her diary, providing a vivid historical context for her personal thoughts. Anne often writes…

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…

against certain populations. Eventually, most of these people were murdered. Men ages 18 to 40 were considered lucky and “eligible for work.” They were thrown into forced labor instead of instant death; women, children, and the elderly were rarely spared. One of the most famous victims of this horror is Annelies Marie Frank, commonly known as Anne Frank. The Frank family hid away in a secret annex for over…

testimony of people who worked with Doctor Spanner during a trial where they examine several atrocities that were committed under the charge of this man. They tell of how they used dead bodies of Nazi victims: separating flesh from bone to produce skeletons for universities as well as making soap from the fat of deceased humans. Assistants were to follow the instructions from a “manual” provided by the doctor for creating the products. This text is far more explicit in discussing how people were…

Movies and books have been around for many, many years, and books go back to the start of time. Some people have taken a famous book and made into a picture show, or as we know it today, a movie. However movies can only be so long. Producers have to take away and add stories from the book to fit it in about 2 hours. Many of the movies keep the main story line, but sometimes producers of the show really switch it up. The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, was written about a Jewish girl who is…

conflict that we have overcome has affected someone. Some questions that help us understand better of this conflict is what are some ways that people respond to conflict, does responding a different way change the outcome, and does the way you respond change the way people think of you? To start things off, how do people respond to conflict? There are many ways people can respond to conflict. A girl named Sophie Scholl was a schoolgirl during the rise of the Nazi regime. She did not support…

According to Anne Frank herself, ¨I hope Kitty [Anne’s imaginary friend] that I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.” Anne Frank wrote this passage in her diary before World War II. She wrote this before Hitler invaded the Netherlands. Previous to the war, Anne’s only problems were school, stress, and girl drama. Little did she know that much more troubling times were ahead of her.…

a whole new world and let us into the kingdom of knowledge. The Diary of Anne Frank and Camp Harmony let us have a glimpse of what it was like to live through World War 2 and the Japanese relocation in the U.S. In the Diary of Anne Frank the Diary informs us what it was like to live during world war two. This changes the perception people and lets audiences know of the difficulty of the Jewish population. In the Diary Anne writes how she and her Family got…