The Play of the Diary of Anne Frank starts out in the annex in the warehouse in Amsterdam, Holland where Anne Frank and seven others hid out during World War II. It opens with Otto Frank and Miep Gies standing in the annex alone in 1945. Mr. Frank had just come home from the concentration camps, being the one survivor from the annex. After conversing for awhile, Miep hands Mr. Frank Anne’s diary from the days of living in the annex. He starts to read the book, as it slowly flashes back to 1942 when it all began…
On an early morning in July of 1942, the Van Daans and Franks meet up for the first time at the annex. All of them are covered in layers of clothing to carry as much to their new home as possible. They are all introduced to each other. Living in the secret annex is Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan, Peter Van Daan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank, Margot, and Anne Frank. Mr. Van Daan is a selfish, greedy man. Mrs. Van Daan likes the finer things, thinks pretty highly of herself and adores her husband. Peter is shy, quiet, and just truly doesn’t say much. Mr. Frank is a kind, caring, leading man. Mrs. Frank is motherly, caring, and sweet. Margo does as others say and tries to keep a low-key profile. Anne is wild and unique. She doesn’t let others push her around, and she is very independent. Everyone in the annex is very different.
Miep and Mr. Kraler are the people responsible for helping them hide. They bring them things they need, and make sure to keep their living arrangement a secret. They both show great kindness. The Van Daans and the Franks are told to stay quiet from eight until six, they must remain completely quiet because the annex is above the warehouse, and that’s when the workers will be in. They can stay ...
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... the world even though they are in this situation. She believes the world is in a phase. She is pure of heart.
Abruptly, the worst has happened. The green police has come for them. They give them five minutes to get their things. Anne writes one last diary entry.
Again, it is November of 1945. It is the same setting as the beginning of the play. Miep and Mr. Frank share information. Miep and Mr. Kraler claim they were out in the country when they were taken in search of food. Mr Frank shares about how they were all separated to different camps. Everyone but Mr. Frank had perished at one of the camps. Mr. Frank reads a line from the diary. Anne wrote that in spite of everything, she still believes that people are good at heart. Mr. Frank says that she puts him to shame, and the curtain falls.
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Most of the exposition happens in the beginning of the play. On pages 10 and 11 the women “set the stage” for us. First, Catherine tells us about herself. “I live in Ottawa, Illinois,” she says, and “I have two children that I love. I have a husband that I love.” Next a slide comes up reading “Chicago in the Gilded Age, The Roaring ‘20’s.” Then Frances, Charlotte and Pearl tell us about important people and events of the time. “Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson is running the city,” says Frances. Charlotte adds “So are Johnny Tori and Al Capone.” Later we hear about the Radium Dial Company and its history.
The Diary of Anne Frank is a true story based in Germany. In July 1942 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Anne, Mr.Frank, Mrs.Frank, Margo, Peter, Miep, Mr.Van Daan, and Mrs.Van Daan were sent to an annex above Mr.Frank's business to hide. They were very scared and fearful for their from the Nazis. They are Jewish, and the Nazis wanted to kill Jews. There are many different similarities and differences.
Act two, scene four fits into the overall structure of the play because this scene is the conflict or climax, the problem of the play. The play’s major theme is during tough times, have hope. This scene adds to the major theme of the play because when Franks, Van Daans, and Dussel were caught by the natzis, the families kept their hope. The play, “The diary of Anne Frank” is based off of the diary of Anne Frank, a teenager who spent more than two years hiding from Natzis during the Holocaust. When Anne’s family was found by Natzis, they were sent to concentration camps, where she died. During this part of the scene, Peter talks to Anne about how he cannot stand being cooped up anymore and Anne tries her best to comfort Peter. For example, In the play the Anne
The way that the story is told differs in the play and the movie. In the play, it begins with Mr. Frank walking through the annex after returning from the concentration camp while talking to Miep about wanting to leave, when Miep hands Mr. Frank Anne’s diary, and the story is told through a flashback. In the movie version of The Diary Of Anne Frank the story starts with them walking in the rain at night going to the annex to go into hiding, after this you learn why they are going
... the middle of the tattered city sits Mr. Frank, reading Anne’s diary. He is the only one who survived after being sent to a concentration camp. Wind was blowing in the pages he was barely holding. Determination settled in his face as a thought of publishing the diary to let everyone know the life of being drowned in silence, the life of perpetual fear. Anne Frank may be gone, but her legacy is left behind. Although everyone else died in different concentration camps they were sent to, Mr. Frank organized the hiding to the best of his ability. Mr. Frank demonstrated his great leadership qualities by thinking of others before himself, keeping a constructive and encouraging attitude, and making hard decisions. The play would not have been possible without Mr. Frank’s effort in getting Anne’s diary published. Through thick and thin, Mr. Frank sewed everything together.
This would happen to be my report on what happened to Anne and her family while World War II was in action once it was converted to a play and a movie format. I'm sure they both these versions are much less graphic than Anne and her family saw it. I just hope Anne feels that they do her story justice. Both the play and film version of The Diary of Anne Frank focus on Anne Frank and her family's experiences in hiding. However, there are some similarities, including how Anne hands out presents to her family members and the other people in the Annex, and some differences, such as Anne and Peter's relationship and, Margot and Peter's relationship.
Despite several notable contrasts between Anne Frank’s life presented in the play, “The Diary of Anne Frank,” and other accounts of Jewish people in hiding during World War II, the lives of these Jews had more similarities than differences. These people were similar in the way that they lived the same schedule every day. Anne and the other Jews relied on their helpers, who risked their lives willingly, to provide food and other human necessities for them, as well as tried to include aspects of their old lives before the Holocaust into their new lives in hiding. The Jews lived with fear of getting caught by Nazis in the back of their minds. Even though Jewish people may have had different
First off Miep Gies was good at heart during the play because she let Jews hide in her husband's attic during the Holocaust. She is a good person because she tried to save almost eight jews, she risked her life hiding the Jews. Miep knew that is was a crime hiding Jews, but she did anyway. When all the Jews got caught by the Gestapo, Anne left her diary and Miep kept it in memory of Anne. Miep made a cake for
One’s true self is only ever revealed in times of great desperation or hopelessness, and only then can the true extent of their morality be determined. Within Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s play The Diary of Anne Frank, the eight inhabitants of the aptly proclaimed “Secret Annex” were forced into close quarters for an extended amount of time. During this period, Petronella Van Daan proved herself to be the worst, personality-wise, of them all. Such is easily seen throughout various conflicts within the play, in which Mrs. Van Daan slowly reveals herself to be reactive, materialistic, vain, and generally antagonistic to both the reader and the occupants of the Annex.
The setting is important for “The Diary of Anne Frank” because it sets the mood of the play. Anne talks about how their hiding place looks. “The rooms are dusty, the curtains are in rags. Chairs and tables are overturned.” (Anne Frank 701) The quote states that the room is in bad condition and not a very good environment to live. Anne also states the area of their hiding place. “It is the top floor of a warehouse and office building in Amsterdam, Holland.” (anne Frank 701) Anne states the location of their hiding location. Lasty, the area they were hiding was very dangerous for the Jews, and their hideout was a very small, old, and ugly place to live.
The definition of a selfish person is, a person, action, or motive lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure, this definition is the splitting image of Mr.Van Daan. The play, The Diary of Anne Frank, was written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. The play takes place in Amsterdam, Holland during the Holocaust. The story is about a girl named Anne Frank and her family who are Jewish. To survive they go into hiding in the tight, small living space of the annex, located on top of the office building that had belonged to Mr. Otto Frank, Anne’s father. After the Holocaust, Mr. Frank goes back to the annex, after being liberated from Auschwitz, he finds Anne’s diary. The diary told the stories
The years 1942 through 1945 Jewish people were having a very hard time in Europe. Jews in Europe were getting captured by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps. The Historical events that are reflected in the play The Diary of Anne Frank by retelling the events that happened during World War II through the eyes of the people who were in the attic.
Do you remember when the Holocaust happened? What is the Holocaust you say? Well, The holocaust is a horrible time for people who hated the Nazis, as they were getting killed, which is why miep wanted to help. In the play, ¨Diary of Anne Frank,¨by Frances Goodrich, and Albert Hackett, the Frank family, and the Van Daans, and Mr Dussel, even though he doesn't come in until later, are hiding in the annex. Miep gies, and Mr kraler help these eight into hiding. They are hiding because the Nazis invaded Amsterdam and if they were found they would have to go to concentration camps. This is because adolf hitler told them that jews were the “scapegoat” to the war. Miep is one of the very few to survive in this group of people. Miep, along with many other people, showed courage by knowing the sacrifices, risking things for the good, and focusing on how to help the franks survive.
This book takes place during World War II in Hungarian Transylvania and in different concentration camps. The story begins at Eliezer’s home which is an apartment in a town called Sighet. Other settings in the book are the different concentration camps where Eliezer and his father are prisoners. In every location, Eliezer learns how to survive and grows more into a man.
Anne believes that “Paper is more patient with people” and expresses her longing for a confidant to which she may share her deepest desires. Moreover, she also confides a typical girl’s affections for girl friends and boy crushes. Contrary to the light and amusing tone of the first few entries of Anne Frank, her revelation of her family background uncovers sneak-peeks to the Jewish life in the Second World War, including the restrictive laws implemented by Nazis against the particular group of people. Prior to Anne’s first diary entry, the Franks, namely Otto, Edith, and their children, Anne and Margot, had emigrated to Holland from Germany to escape Hitler’s propaganda of Anti-Semitism; however, soon, they realize that they had not been liberated yet from the claws of discrimination when Anne’s elder sister, Margot, was summoned by the S.S., the elite Nazi guards, for a call-up, implying that she would be sent to a concentration