A long time ago, there was a time of hatred and discrimination focused on Jews in the 1930’s. This event was known as the Holocaust. A young girl, Anne Frank, is remembered today for her impact on views of the Holocaust. Anne had a diary that she wrote in, about her family’s, the Van Daans’, and Jan Dussel’s experiences while hiding in the Secret Annex to keep from being discovered by the Nazis. We are going to discuss Anne’s diary, Anne’s passion for writing, the value of her diary, Anne as a writer, and why her diary is so popular.
(Brown 2) Then August 4, 1944 someone tipped off the police and the Frank’s, Van Daan’s, and Mr. Dussel were all sentenced to attend the Bergen-Belson concentration camp in Germany. (Brown 2) Anne’s sister, Margot, was the first of both the families to die. (Gale 3) She died of a typhus epidemic that broke out in the camp. (Brown 2) Anne was never informed that her sister had died, but she had a feeling something was wrong. (Brown 2) Ernst Schnabel, on the topic of Anne Frank, wrote: “She sensed it, and soon afterwards she died, peacefully, feeling that nothing bad was happening to her.” (Brown 2) The epidemic killed around 17,000 prisoners.
The author of this book was Anne Frank. She was born on June 12th, 1929 and died in early March 1945. She is one of the most prominent and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Accredited for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world’s most widely read books, and has been the foundation for many plays and films. Anne was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
In chapter 4 Bruno and his older sister Gretel make an unusual discovery when they look outside Bruno’s bedroom window. John Boyne keeps us from knowing what is on the other side of the fence until we get further into the book. All the information given in the chapter is about the people is that they are wearing a pair of striped of grey striped pyjamas and a grey striped cloth cap and looking unhappy, some with bandages around their heads and others on crutches. Later on in chapter 5 some of Bruno’s innocence and nieveity is shown when he is talking to his father in his office. When he misunderstands what his father meant by ‘the fury has big things in mind for him’ Bruno thinks this means that his father is in trouble with the fury so he asks his father.
Anja is the mother of Art and the Wife of Vladek. Being a fragile character right from the beginning, when Anja was in the Holocaust, she became increasingly ill, both physically and emotionally. Hence, even if Anja survived through all the insanity in the concentration camps, the depressions and breakdowns might have made her commit suicide. In Maus I, Spiegelman showed the reader that Vladek and Anja already developed a strong bond and this was evident throughout their time together in World War II. The couple hid in a cellar house where there was no food, Vladek said “Here Anja, chew on this.
In her work “I Stand Here Ironing” Olsen uses the theme of regret and the mother’s inner conflict to show her concern about her daughter’s life. The works writers produce are heavily influenced by the lives they live. This is especially true for Tillie Olsen. Even though Tillie Olsen’s early life was very strict because of the parents she was born into, her middle years and writing career were extremely eventful. Tillie Lerner Olsen was born on January 14, 1912 to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Wahoo, Nebraska and moved to Omaha while a young child (Rohrberger).
Also, repetition of “Help, help, help” tells that Anne always lived in constant fear of Nazis. Eventually, during the Nazi invasion Anne’s hope gave her courage to jump over her fear and concerns. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn” demonstrates how Anne’s anger can be disappeared and her courage is reborn as she writes her diary. Also, every time Anne is angry and dreaded, she can empty her mind and fulfill it with braveness. As in a
Maddie DeHaven Period 4 Honors Anne Frank Essay The struggles that a person pursues makes for a strong character. The thoughts and actions of Anne Frank that are included in her diary allow her to reflect on herself and therefore grow as a person. In the beginning of her diary Anne views the Holocaust as something far away and doesn't feel it will affect her and her family. But as Hitler moves in closer, more and more basic rights are taken away from the Jews. During her time in hiding, Anne matures, and a metamorphosis takes place within her.
(Poetry Dispatch)To me biggest similarity between Sexton & Plath was both writers seemed obsessed with death not only in their poetry but also in their personal lives. Although both women were Pulitzer Prize winners, their battle with depression and breakdowns ultimately lead both women to committee suicide. Plath's "Ariel" and Sexton's "The Starry Night" both celebrate suicide (Sylvia Plath forum/Poetry Foundation). After Plath's death, Sexton started to incorporate Plath's themes and Nazi imagery into her own work. Despite communicating only sporadically between 1959 and Plath's suicide, both women were definitively influenced by their brief friendship, showing in their respective works.
Introduction In his novel, The Book Thief, Markus Zusak writes about a young German girl who is placed in foster care during the early years of World War II by mother who is too ill to take care of her. This character is forced to face a series of events during this time of Nazi Germany and survives this horrible part of her life by finding or stealing books. The author uses Death as a narrator to help discuss the stories event, helping to bring the mind and emotions of his characters to life. Within Zusak’s novel, which appears to be related to his childhood, he writes about the theme of duality. This theme, appearing more frequently in the epilogue discusses the kindness and cruelty of the human race while blending it with the duality of characters in the Nazi-era Germany.