Diary Of Anne Frank Compare And Contrast Essay

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The play version of The Diary Of Anne Frank tells about the life of a teen girl while she and her family are hiding during World War I. In this play, Anne struggles to live her life to the fullest and finding her independence while in the annex with seven other people. While the play remains widely read and watched today, a new movie version of Anne’s life has adapted the features of the play to create a modern way of telling it. In this movie, the audience sees Anne go from her regular life to a very abnormal life stuck in an annex for over two years. Although, the play and movie versions of Anne Frank’s life differ in their organizational structure, both works focus on the same central conflicts and the same way of presenting all of the information needed. The settings of the play and movie are very different especially in the beginning. In the play, it begins in the old abandoned annex where we find Mr. Frank sadly reading Anne’s diary in 1945 while in the movie, it begins in 1942 with the Franks walking really quickly through the rain on their way to go into hiding. The play begins after everyone but Mr. Frank had died and the movie begins whenever all are alive and are hurrying into hiding to survive World War I. Despite their differences, both works use their initial settings to …show more content…

In the play, the Frank’s must rush into hiding whenever Word War I had started. Many Jews began dying terribly so the Frank’s thought going into hiding would be the best decision. In the movie, the same thing happened. World War I was upon them so they took a different route to survive it. Many Jews were dying in the movie as well. In both works, all seven people in the annex had to keep as quiet as they possibly could. If they made even the slightest noise, the Green Police could come and take them to concentration camps and such. In both works, the Jews hiding in the annex all eventually died from German’s like

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