Comparison Of Manzanar And Anne From The Diary Of Anne Frank

Despite being thousands of miles apart many experiences these two characters shared were shared were similar. Anne from the Diary of Anne Frank written as a play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett is a teenage girl who had to go into hiding when Jews were being persecuted. She seeks and sees the good in everything and enjoys having fun. Jeanne from Farewell to Manzanar was seven years old when she and her family had to leave their homes leaving many possessions. She, like Anne sees the good in everything and the best in every bad situations. These two, living on the other side of the ocean from each other not knowing of each other's existence still share many traits.

Anne, a thirteen years old girl from Holland when she first went into

She lived in Ocean Park, California before being relocated to Manzanar. Jeanne did not fully understand why she was being relocate until later in the story. Until this moment she was like any other American citizen and believed so herself. In this story Jeanne and her family were uprooted from their homes. She had to leave behind her friends and her home when she was relocated to Manzanar. When she arrives and when she leaves Jeanne and her family must rebuild their life. Some events affecting this character during the story is the climate and housing at Manzanar. In the summer the winds were hot carrying sand with risks of sandstorms. In the winters temperatures plummeted compared to those in the summer. The housing was first a small home made of simply planks of wood nailed together. There were holes and crevices where sand would be able to get through. Another event would be her father who had been sent to prison. When the moment the family waited months for had come Jeanne’s father was a beatdown old man who did not look the same. Her father would always drink alcohol and yell. He was not the same man he was before he left which was very confusing and troublesome for the family. During the course of the story Jeanne learns new skills and joins groups within the camp. One was a batton tossing group and the other, a catholic church. While in the camp she

In The Diary of Anne Frank one of the last lines written on page 778 state “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” This “everything” she wrote in her diary may have been the persecution of the Jews. Anne believes it was not the soldiers’ fault for this. In Farewell to Manzanar it Jeanne writes “I would absorb such rejections and keep on looking, because for some reason the scholarship society and the athletic league and the yearbook staff didn't satisfy me, were never quite enough.” Although she was rejected for simply being foreign she continued to look on. Even though this was a bad situation Jeanne like many others wanted to be popular. Even in an anti Japanese time she continued pursuing seeing that there was something better. Secondly, both characters were affected by a character v.s. Society conflict. With this they, and other people they knew were taken or give limitaions.It states in The Diary of Anne Frank “They forced father out of his business. We had to wear yellow stars. Had to turn in my bike. I couldn’t go to a Dutch school anmore. I couldn't go to the movies, or ride an automobile, or even go on a steer car, and a million other things.” As you can see the society affected Anne and the other Jews heavily. Jeanne did face a problem somewhat like this. Jeanne writes in her book Farewell to Manzanar “He was not only an alien; he held a