During World War II, the German Reich marched across the entire continent of Europe. During the Holocaust, many people became discouraged and lost hope in the future of society. However, the excerpts from “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,” written by herself, and “Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, prove that being positive and persevering is the best thing that someone can do. Whether hiding from the Nazis or already taken by them, the best response to have during conflict and chaos is maintaining a positive outlook on life and to persist through difficult times.
Environment can have an enormous influence on identity and for Anne Moody we saw how her experiences put a burden on herself. Growing up in rural Mississippi at a time where racism was highly recognized, Anne Moody was categorized just like every other black woman in her community, working for the white people trying to meet ends meet, powerless, uneducated and running after men and having babies. Her mother was a prime example of the stereotypical black woman during that time, having many kids, her husband leaving her for another woman, getting into a relationship with another man, uneducated and slaving over jobs to provide for her children. Reading this novel, I saw the identity of Anne Moody’s mother deteriorating, from Anne’s childhood
A social bandit is someone who is tired of law enforcements not taking action when the people are being oppressed, and decides to take matter into his own hands. Joaquin Murieta was called the Mexican Robin Hood by the people and a desperado by those who opposed him. Like many in the mid 1800s, Murieta traveled to California in search of wealth in the mines. After some mishaps, oppression and running into trouble with neighboring Anglos, Murieta later rebelled and turned to a life of crime. But he only committed crimes against those oppressed him and his people.
Anne’s relationship with her mother is gradually maturing and improving. “ I used to be furious with Mummy, and still am sometimes.” This shows that Anne still gets angry with her mother, but not all the time. This shows that her relationship with her mother is getting better because Anne used to get mad at her mother all the time. In that sentence she said “sometimes” .
She didn’t want to tell the truth about what happened in the woods to the adults because she wanted to protect herself. She manipulated the young girls to lie and say they were only dancing, “And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you”(Miller).
Anne Frank’s Character Development Throughout the War Throughout World War II Anne Frank was kept hidden away in a 500 square foot building they came to call the Secret Annexe. Anne Frank, her family, and the Van Daans endured difficult times of hunger, thirst, and lack of privacy cornered by walls for over two years. Anne confided her observations and feelings of the hard times within her diary she named Kitty. By writing in her diary both before and after the war, one could visibly notice how Anne went into the Annexe as a juvenile and came out as a young adult.
How would you feel if you were stuck in a room for two years? In the Diary Of Anne Frank it talks about how Anne lives her life through ages thirteen through fifteen. Anne gets her diary on her thirteenth birthday. She wrote in the diary almost every day. Anne doesn’t get a lot of freedom in her life because she has been stuck in a secret room called the “Secret Annex.”
(Hook) World War II was a dark period in the history of the world, where about six million Jews were killed in Nazi concentration camps. (Bridge) A few of those individuals were Anne Frank and her family. (FS1) Anne Frank and her family were Jews, living in a time period where it was illegal to be of that ethnicity and religion. (FS2)
And finally when Annemarie lied to the Nazis to protect the Rosens and her uncle. “My uncle Henrik forgot his lunch and I’m taking it to him. He’s a fisherman.” (page 113) This lie showed how she had come closer to the Rosen family and her Uncle Henrik, because if she didn’t make it to the ship in time they would have been
The 1940s were a crucial time all over the world with hardships and wars going on for years. Within these wars, two little girls that have been apart of it their whole lives, have shared their experiences through a diary and a book of stories. The Diary of Anne Frank is about a young jewish girl named Anne Frank, who has to go into hiding with her family in order to not get caught and taken away by the Nazis in Amsterdam, and while in hiding, records her experiences and thoughts into her diary. Farewell to Manzanar is a book based on a girl named Jeanne Wakatsuki who is seven years old at the time, and gets taken away with her family to Manzanar encampments, as the U.S. government doesn’t want to risk any Japanese Americans possibly giving up information to the Japanese as they are at war with them. Anne Frank and Jeanne Wakatsuki have many similarities and differences throughout their lifetimes on the run from the war.
In the book “Number the Stars”, Annemarie faces a lot of lies and truth that affected the story. She was forced to be brave and trust her parents and adults to make her feel safe by lies. Our main hero Annemarie slowly goes from girlhood to adulthood. In order to make Annemarie feel safe, the parents and relatives in the story had to make code words and tell lies to Annemarie so she wouldn’t worry and be as brave as a lion when the time was right.
Anne Frank atttained her success through her hardships in her life. My dog's collard chafed his neck until I came and took it off of him. I have a reverence towards God because he created the world for everyone to live on. The citizens of Paris suffered vile torture when ISIS started bombing them.
Anne Frank had many complicated relationships, the latter being in the Secret Annexe. She had both good and bad relations with her family, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel. With Mrs. Frank, Anne had a somewhat rocky relationship. They often fought and found one another ignorant. Anne thought she was a bad parent, and often hurt her mother’s feelings.
In this book report I will talk about the story “The diary of Anne Frank” the story is about a Jew girl called Anne who lived with her family in Germany in the second world war when a new German president called Adolf Hitler came with the idea that all Jew people were dangerous ; so her dad Otto Frank who worked in a bank came with the idea of moving to Amsterdam, Holland to be safer from the German army called the Nazis. Anne was a little girl who lived with her family: Otto Frank her dad, Margot her sister and Edith her mom. For her birthday in June 12 her father gave her a diary were she wrote everything that happened. Days later bad news came, a new German president called Adolf Hitler came with the idea that all Jew people is dangerous
Imagine how it feels to be stuck in a tiny, miniscule room for almost two years, not able to make a sound or movement and if heard by someone,death or concentration camp is the destination? The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett is about a small family which consists of Anne, Margot, Mr. Frank, and Mrs. Frank who were in a shock of fear, and went into hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Over the course of the story other characters join the family into hiding such as Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan, and their son Peter. During the time of hiding, Anne kept a diary to write down all her thoughts, fears, and feelings and was later known to be the most important piece of literature from the times of the Holocaust. The story takes you through their everyday lives of hiding in the annex which also includes arguing and times of happiness.
