Diary Of Anne Frank Comparative Essay

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While the themes of The Pianist and Anne Frank’s Diary are primarily concurrent with one another, both can also contrast another. For example both share common themes of overall oppression, survival, and injustice but both protagonists experience these themes in different ways. One of the the three main themes of both stories is survival. Now the definition of survival is to stay alive and somewhat healthy for as long as possible. In this case of survival both protagonists in both stories were being treated extremely cruel because of their religion thus resulting in hiding, just to not be sent to the concentration camps. For example in The Pianist, Szpilman, the main character is constantly running from the Nazis and is moving from place to place with multiple people helping him. This even includes an SS officer in a high ranking position helping him survive. In the end he lives to 88 ,being lucky to have survived the holocaust. While in The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne, is in hiding and only stays in one space with a whole other family and has minimal help. This resulted in Anne and her family going to the concentration camps and only her father be the one to survive. …show more content…

In The Pianist the lives of his innocent family members and friends will never be brought back, but why were they ever taken away in the first place? The lives of the Nazi officers who may have killed them will never repay him or bring him justice and that is why Szpilman’s story is very unfair. Anne Frank was also treated just as unfairly being only 13 and having her life taken away from her for all the wrong reasons. The same goes for her family and friends also killed very