The Diary Of A Young Girl

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How has Melissa Muller changed ‘The diary of a young girl’ in order to produce ‘the whole story’ series.

‘The diary of a young girl’ is a novel based on a Jewish girls experience in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The original diary has been preserved in the Netherlands after Anne’s father, Otto Frank granted ownership
Of the copyrighted materials to a separate organisation. Through the course of history, Anne’s original diary has been refashioned and changed countless times into novels, articles and films in order to entertain and make profit off.
‘The whole story,’ directed by Robert Dorhelm is a movie format of ‘Diary of a young girl.’ The movie is based on the autobiography of Melissa Muller. As a reproduction of …show more content…

The concentration camp, an additional scene is good examples of the changes between the novel and series. 1st of August 1944, is when the Frank family with the other annex members are found and arrested. Their arrest marks the end of the original diary where as in the movie this scene is continued where the annex members are taken to a concentration camp. The addition of this scene dramatically changes the characters actions, the conflict, which Anne had with her mother from even before they went into hiding, was resolved within the additional scenes in the series. In the 21st century, movies are ended with a resolution to whatever conflict was occurring throughout it, this might be a key reason to why Melissa has added this scene as it would make it more entertaining and more encaging for the audience. Anne and the other annex members were betrayed by someone, this is not show in the novel but has been in the movie to make it more dramatic. Although all these changes were made in the film many aspects remained the same, Otto franks relationship with Anne is a prime example of this as he was close to Anne both in the novel and film. Despite the similar comparison, the changes out shined the …show more content…

In the novel, Anne Frank is the least important to everyone, she is like the baby of the family hierarchy. Anne has no say and is ruled by the adults around her in contrast to the film she is more open minded and joins adult conversations to have a say. The reason why this was changed was to make the movie more suitable to today’s modern society outlining the main character more and making it more entertaining and amusing. The family values between the novel and movie are somewhat simular but mostly different. In both the novel and movie they are trying to survive and fight for their life but in the film the family is more open minded and are not as cautious as in the novel where every move they take could decide their fate. Racial discrimination of Jews was show both in the novel and in the movie. Melissa Muller changed and over clouded social values in the

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