Compare And Contrast Zlata And Anne Frank

Compare and Contrast Essay

Zlata’s Diary” by Zlata Filipovic and “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett both have very similar qualities. From surviving the war to keeping all their day to day thoughts in a journal, Zlata and Anne are alike in many ways. Zlata’s Diary is about a thirteen year old girl who is forced into hiding from the bullets of a war that broke out in her hometown. The Diary of Anne Frank is about a girl named Anne who ends up having to stay in captivity for a long time as well. The only big difference about Anne and Zlata is that Zlata could still go outside when the war started. Zlata never had to dream about seeing the stars like Anne did. The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata’s Diary is pointed out as two very similar books because Zlata went through so many similar situations as Anne, this is the reason for why Zlata was usually known as the “Anne Frank of her time.”

Anne Frank was an ordinary thirteen year old girl. The main problem Anne faces is when she finds out that Hitler has taken over and she finds out she has to stay in captivity. Some main events that affected Anne’s life was when she found out it wasn’t gonna be just her family living together but also a family called the Van Daans and and a dentist named Mr.Dussel.

In the beginning of the novel, Anne starts off as an annoying, talkative little girl but over the course of time Anne starts to mature, she starts to realize that she might be in captivity for a long time so she tries to act nicer to others. The main problem Anne faced was never really solved, her family ended up getting caught and were sent to concentration camps where everyone died except for Mr.Frank.

Zlata Filipovic is an eleven year old girl at the time. She finds out that a real war is going on in Dubrovnik, guns are being fired and some of her best friends are even getting killed. One main event is when she has to go into the dreadful cellar for multiple occasions just to survive. In the beginning of the book she is a talented, bright young lady, at the end of the book she starts to discover the meaning of things, Zlata Filipovic starts to understand that she doesn’t need the answers to everything, she refuses to like politics and the cellar she hides in, she also refuses to give up and let the men with guns win. The problem is resolved when Zlata and her family move to Paris.

Zlata and Anne both never understood war, their questions about politics and people taking over so quickly was never something they thought about.

Both characters kept a diary for everything that happened to them. Zlata and Anne also named their diaries, Zlata’s was named Mimmy and Anne’s was named Kitty. In Zlata’s Diary she says “Since Anne Frank called her diary Kitty, maybe I could give you a name too.” The difference in Zlata and Anne is that Anne actually ends up dying in the end and Zlata ends up being saved. A quote from The Diary of Anne Frank shows Anne saying “If you should find this diary, will you please keep it safe for

me.”
And a quote from Zlata’s Diary says “And then...the lights of Paris appred.” These topics show how similar and different Anne and Zlata are.

Zlata was known as “The Anne Frank of her time” because of all these reasons. In the end, Zlata and Anne both end up living very different lives. Anne dies in a concentration camp and Zlata moves to Paris. Even though Anne and Zlata didn’t exactly go through all the same things, the readers of the book still got to imagine how each character handled their different situations.