depended on it? This is exactly the situation that Anne Frank faces when her family is forced to hide from the Nazis. When Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday on June 12‚ 1942‚ she knows it is a special gift. She calls the diary ’maybe one of my nicest presents.’ She has no way of knowing‚ of course‚ of the important role the diary will play in recording the years she must spend in hiding. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank details approximately two years of the life a Jewish
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Response The Diary of a Young Girl written by Anne Frank is an inspirational coming of age diary written to teach the reader that difficult situations lead to maturity. Anne’s diary shows the evolution and maturity of Anne’s character over a few years. Anne had to face many challenges in her difficult situation. She was hiding in a confined Annexe because she was a targeted victim of genocide during the Holocaust. These situations led her to an entire new level
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Anne Frank Anne Frank pictured in May 1942 Born Annelies[1] or Anneliese[2] Marie Frank 12 June 1929 Frankfurt‚ Weimar Germany Died Early March 1945 (aged 15) Bergen-Belsen concentration camp‚ Lower Saxony‚ Nazi Germany Nationality German until 1941 Stateless from 1941 Notable works The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) Signature Early life Frank was born Annelies[1] or Anneliese[2] Marie Frank on 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt‚ Germany‚ to Otto Frank (1889–1980) and Edith Frank-Holländer (1900–45). She
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The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most important and shocking pieces of Holocaust literature. By keeping a journal‚ Anne Frank did a vast service to future generations as she documented her life‚ and what it was like to be part of a Jewish family living in this time period. Historians and upcoming Jewish generations rely on such recollections and memoirs when they study the past. The fact that a thirteen-year-old girl such as Anne kept a detailed‚ thoughtful and organized diary is truly remarkable
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The Diary of Anne Frank Essay Test On Theme Directions: Answer at least one of the questions below about theme. Use complete sentences and answer in paragraph form. Your grade will depend upon the length of your answers‚ the accuracy of your judgments‚ and your ability to defend those judgments with specific details‚ examples‚ and quotations from the play. Also‚ use vocabulary terms we have discussed. This should be an example of your best writing skills. If you answer only this question
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The Diary of A Young Girl‚ written over a two-year period‚ tells about the life of a young girl named Anne Frank who is also the author‚ while she and her family are in hiding in Holland. They are staying in a secret attic of the office building where Mr. Frank used to work in order to escape from the Nazis during World War II. During their stay in the annex‚ they are supported by several people in the office building‚ who risk their own lives to insure the secrecy of the Jewish hideout and to provide
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cheerful depressed hopeful Question 2.2. Anne describes the annex as a ’little piece of blue heaven’ surrounded by what? (Points : 2) heavy rain clouds the canal a vacuum Question 3.3. Anne has upsetting dreams and visions of a school friend. Which one? (Points : 2) Jopie de Waal Miep de Jong Lies Goosen Question 4.4. What do the dreams and visions remind Anne? (Points : 2) She is very lucky to be safe as many are
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themselves. It is helpful at such times to narrow our focus to an instance or two‚ to close our eyes to the devastation played out on a vast scale‚ in order to appreciate the suffering each individual or families experienced. At Stratford‚ "The Diary of Anne Frank‚" written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacket‚ which is adapted by Wendy Kesselman permitted me to do just that. This compelling play confines the action of the story to a concealed storage attic‚ in which the claustrophobic realities
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escaped to freedom. Years later a fault in the Nazis system gave one of the women taken away the chance to live. In our second story The Annex it talks about how two families the Franks and the Van Daans that lived with Mr.Dussel in a tiny attic. What we know was written by the Franks daughter Anne in her diary. It tells of how she had a relationship with Peter Van Daan‚ and the trouble that occurred in that annex. They lived there for three years before they were captured helping them were two
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strong. In Hackett and Goodrich’s play The Diary of Anne Frank‚ the theme of heroism is illustrated by Miep‚ Mr. Kraler‚ and Anne. Miep was a young woman who was engaged and also had to work everyday and yet she always found the time to visit the families‚ to bring them food‚ books‚ news and whatever else they might have needed or wanted. Miep was very modest. On New Year’s Eve she baked them a cake‚ even though sugar was sold on rations. Mr. Frank offered her a piece of the cake but she said
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