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.
Many of them had the same goal of protecting the Jews, but had different methods to do so. The helpers, Miep and Kraler from“The Diary of Anne Frank” shared some similar goals in helping to hide Jews as other helpers during this time did. Mr. Kraler stated, “This is what we call . . . helping all of the hundreds and hundreds who are hiding” (Goodrich and Hackett 285), meaning that his intention was to help with the cause of hiding Jewish people. Similarly, Jeannine Burk from “Survivor Stories” realized that the woman who helped her did the best she could to hide Burk from the Nazis because “if it were not for her, [Burk] would not be here.” Rolf Joseph from Allan Hall’s article acknowledged that helpers’ necks would be put “on the block of the guillotine” if caught helping Jews, describing that the consequences of getting caught helping Jews would be immediate death. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” Mr. Frank mentioned that the helpers, Miep and Mr. Kraler would face the same fate the people living in the Annex would if they were caught. In the end, it was revealed that Anne’s family was sent to different concentration camps, so if Miep and Mr. Kraler were caught, they would be sent with them. The difference between Anne’s helpers and Burk’s helpers was their relationship to the people they were helping. Anne’s father knew Miep and Mr. Kraler personally, while Burk didn’t “know who [her helper] was.” Even though both Anne and Burk did not establish relationships with their helpers initially, through the play, Anne eventually got to know Miep. Burk, on the other hand, did not “have a clue” about her
Wisps of burnt-out curtains drape over shattered window frames, fluttering helplessly like a bird with injured wings. Pieces of wood collapse snapping once they hit the ground. Smoke swirls around in the wind. No sound can be heard except for the occasional sobs escaping the chapped lips of people visiting what is left of their homes. The once busy city of Amsterdam is now nothing but a city of forgotten souls. In 1942, the Franks and the Van Daans moved into a warehouse located in Amsterdam to escape the perilous world outside, where the Holocaust was taking place. Jews like the Franks and the Van Daans had their rights taken away from them. The Gestapo, the police working for the Nazis, rounded up people to be sent to concentration camps, where people worked to death. Margot Frank was one of them. Many Jews had to leave the country to escape, while the two families, and later on a man named Dussel, lived on the top floor of the warehouse called the Secret Annex. Living in such a small space and having sparse food with so many people was not easy. On weekdays, not a noise was to be made otherwise the workmen below would hear them. Food and other items had to be brought in by Miep and Mr. Kraler, who risked their lives to help the members of the Secret Annex. To keep herself company, Anne Frank wrote in her diary almost every day. Later on, her diary was published, and two authors decided that they would write a play based on the published diary, named The Diary of Anne Frank. Goodrich and Hackett created memorable characters in their play. Among these people, Otto Frank stood out, who emerged as a good leader because he put himself before others, made rough decisions when problems rose, and stayed positive and optimistic even dur...
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.
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
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.
Imagine what it would have been like to be cooped up in an attic during the Holocaust,with only very little space eight people in one little attic. For the Franks and the Van Danns it was eight people and a cat for most the time. With no one to talk to they have to keep everything in, unless they write it. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” the two families live this way. Anne and Peter were two of the characters who experienced this. Anne is a teenage girl who has a sister and lives during the Holocaust. Anne also had a lot of friends so she was popular; she loved to read and write in her journal. She was very loud and obnoxious. In Act one Scene two ,Peter says “I was always by myself, while you were in a big crowd of people.” This shows that Anne was very popular and is used to people; while Peter was not used to as much attention and people. Then in Act one Scene three, Mr.Van Dann says, “ Why can’t you be more like your sister Margot?” This proves that the Van Danns like Margot more than they like Anne ; it also proves they think Anne is obnoxious.
Anne’s escaped the Nazis and anti-Semitism and went into hiding in the Annex. During her time in the Annex Anne grew in maturity. Very suddenly she was forced to undergo the change from a fairly free
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 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.
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.
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 autobiography book, “The Diary of a Young Girl”, is a collection of Dutch diary entries authored by Anne Frank, a 13-year-old Jewish girl who lived through the atrocities of the Anti-Semitist German Nazi Regime. Beginning on June 14, 1942, the diary, which Anne named “Kitty”, vividly depicts fear-filled stories of the Franks and other Jews in evading racial annihilation. Besides the stories of war, the world-renown personal account narrates a teenage girl’s blossoming and her search for identity, love, and acceptance. The entries end abruptly on August 1, 1944, signifying the Gestapo’s capture of the Frank family and all the other residents of the Secret Annexe, but despite the impermanence of Anne’s life, her legacy endures