The Diary of a Young Girl

Our class recently read the play and watched the 2009 version movie of The Diary of Anne Frank. In the beginning of the story, we watch the Franks and Van Daans being situated into the Secret Annex. They learned that they must be quiet throughout the course of the workday and their abilities are limited. Such ability is using the washroom. In the middle, conflicts grow between the inhabitants of the annex. They have fallen into a pattern for living in hiding, but their terror is still present…

Reading about Anne Frank’s life certainly has changed my own in a large number of ways. Reading entries from the play and seeing the movie version affected myself by giving a different perspective on someone’s life experience, like how the Germans judged the Jews, but in the movie when the officers figured out about Anne and everybody in the annex they were rushing them to pack and to leave. But when Mr. Frank was getting his suitcase the officer asked him what was in it and how he had it…

My essay will be about the diary of Anne Frank play and about the book We Survived The Holocaust. main character is Anne Frank, who went into hiding during the holocaust.The We Survived The Holocaust book was about a bunch of stories told by survivors of the holocaust.I will be talking about the similarities and differences between the book and play. I will also be talking about the theme for both the book and play. The Diary of Anne Frank play they mention that, she keeps a journal and…

In her diary, Anne Frank, much like George Orwell, has a “desire to push the world in a certain direction” and to emphasize the kind of society other people should begin to strive toward. A Jewish teenager living in Holland during the Holocaust, Anne is forced into hiding and must bear witness the atrocities and anti-semitism brought forth by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Using a diary she received for her birthday, she recounts her life during the Holocaust and her views on the world and how they…

she knows there is a great chance of death, it is better to not care, this is mostly provoked by her excruciating mental illnesses. She no longer cares and is so neutral to the topic as her anxiety and depression progresses. At the beginning of her diary, she is fearful of death and would do anything to get out of a deadly condition. Learning and understanding the news and other Jews, her thoughts replay on carelessness instead of determination. “A deathly oppressive silence hangs over the house…

Sara Young tried her hand at young adult writing with Holocaust novel My Enemy’s Cradle. This gripping story keeps you worried about Cyrla and her fate. It’s the brink of World War II; no one is free. Everyone lives in fear; holding their breath. Cyrla is sent to stay with Anneke, her cousin. Then, upon being surrounded by spies and friends alike, she must face a man of the past that can’t seem to let her go. Sara Young expertly provokes questions and thoughts with her word choice and yet fails…

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…

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 to hiding sooner or later, so me and my wife had already reserved a…

Cornelia “Corrie” ten Boom was born in Haarlem, Netherlands, on April 15, 1892. She was the youngest of 4 siblings (two sisters and a brother.) her father, Casper ten Boom, was a renowned jeweler and watchmaker. Corrie became Holland’s first female watchmaker. After Corrie’s mother passed away from heart failure, Corrie busied herself with helping her father in the shop and she started a girl’s youth club in which she taught Bible, crafts, sewing, and performing arts. In 1940, the ten Boom way…

Fear drives people to work so they can prevent something from happening while hope drives people to work so something does happen. My first source for this argumentative essay is ¨The Diary of Anne Frank¨. I chose this as one of my sources because there are many examples of hope and fear in this novel. (In The Diary of Anne Frank, pg. 43 line 39, Mrs.Frank states, ¨There's no hope to be had. I know that.¨…