What Are The Similarities Between Anne Frank And Lord Of The Flies

Survival is continuing to live especially during arduous situations. In the world people try to find a way to survive in many different types of situations. The Diary of Anne Frank and The Lord of the Flies are both examples of survival stories. During their tragic and horrific experiences, Anne Frank and the boys in Lord of The Flies both used several survival skills.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a diary written by Anne which tells about her time in an attic with her family and another family, the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel. The were hiding from the Nazis in the attic since they were Jewish during the Holocaust time period. The attic was small, and throughout the diary there are many arguments between the residents due to the small space. During her time in the attic, Anne wrote in her diary to survive and keep her sanity,”This way of keeping a diary...I’m

able to write in you.”Another one of her family members, Margot, reads books to survive the attic,”Margot was reading that book.” This is one survival story, but there are many more out there.

Similarly, the boys in Lord of the Flies also survive a difficult situation using several survival skills. In the novel, a group of boys get stranded on an island as proven in the book, “Nobody don’t now we’re here. Your dad don’t know, nobody don’t know.” They try to survive by working together as one civilization, but they turn to savages. At the end of the book they get rescued.One way they survived the island was by killing pigs for food, “Tonight we’re having a feast. We’ve killed a pig and we’ve got meat.” They also used one of the main character’s glasses, Piggy’s glasses, to start a fire, “His specs- use them as burning glasses .... And a tiny flame appeared.” These boys found ways to survive a difficult situation like Anne and her family in the attic.

The Diary of Anne Frank and Lord of the Flies have several similarities.

One of those multiple similarities is that both Ralph, a main character in Lord of the Flies, and Anne had to hide from people who were trying to kill them. For Anne, it was from the Nazis, “What Father had meant when he talked to me about our going into hiding.” Likewise, Ralph had to hide from other boys on the island, “ If you wormed into the middle of that you would be five yards from the edge, and hidden... Ralph wormed between the rising stems.” Another similarity between the two stories is that there was many arguments between everyone. In the The Diary of Anne Frank, the arguments were between all the people in the attic, “There’s no reason for me to go on describing all our quarrels and arguments down to the last detail.” Many of the arguments in Lord of the Flies took place between Ralph and Jack, the two main characters, “You wouldn’t care to help with the shelters, I suppose? We ant meat- and we don’t get it. Now the antagonism was audible.” These stories are alike in several ways, but two stories are never completely the

same.

Despite having many similarities, the stories of Anne Frank and the boys in Lord of the Flies have many differences. The first difference between the two stories is their survival situations. The boys were stranded on an island while Anne, her family and the Van Daans along with Mr. Dussel were hiding from the Nazis. A second difference would be that Anne had access to real work materials like books and furniture while the boys were completely cut off since they were stranded. Anne’s food, books, and other material came from people who worked for Anne’s father, mainly a woman names Miep, “Bep and Miep went shopping with our ration coupons.” The differences between the stories makes them great in their own ways.

In addition, I have had situations where I had to survive in my life. I have survived the loss of many of my pets. Like Anne Frank, it involved the death of family and people, as well as animals, close to each other. I is different from Lord of the Flies because I was not in a life or death situation like the boys. Even though my survival story is not exactly like The Diary of Anne Frank, or Lord of the Flies, they can be linked together through the fact that they are all survival stories in one way or another.

All in all, people have struggles to survive all throughout time. When someone is surviving, all they’re doing is staying alive. In multiple types of situations, people want to find a way to stay alive. The boys from Lord of the Flies found a way to survive in their traumatic experience, but Anne Frank could only survive for a period of time in her tragic story told in The Diary of Anne Frank. The Holocaust was one of the most horrific time periods in history, and trying to survive was probably one the hardest things those people had to do.