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    In the story of Anne Frank, Anne and her family go into hiding to get away from the Nazis and stay safe. After Anne and her family gets caught they had a hard journey. The historical events in Anne Frank impact the story in plenty of different ways, for instance, they impact the mood and actions of the people in hiding. The first thing that will be talked about is the mood of the story. The mood changes a lot throughout the story. A historical event that proves this is “It’s the silence in the nights

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    Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who went into hiding at the age of 13 during World War II. Anne and her family did this to escape the Nazis. She went into hiding because Margot, Anne’s older sister, received a letter ordering her to report to a work camp in Germany. The family was in hiding for two years from July of 1942 to August of 1944. Anne, her family, and three others hid in a secret annex above the place where her father worked. Anne had three positive characteristics. Them being unconventional

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    horror that Anne Frank had to face accompanied with seven others, living in the secret annex. The main character being Anne Frank, writes in her diary about the most important events that happen inside and outside the annex. Once finishing reading the book I realized that the actions Nazis took against Jewish people was inhumane and overall just unacceptable in any society. Anne Frank’s diary gives a unique perspective of how it was to live and hide during the World War II era. Anne describes how

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    Annelies Marie aka “Anne” was born on June 13, 1929. She was a world-famous diarist and World War II Holocaust victim. Frank got her famous diary for her 13th birthday, and that is when she began to write about her life in the Holocaust times. Anne Frank is the child of Edith Hollander Frank and Otto Frank. When Frank was about four, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany and he and his Nazi government began to go unbelievable measures to prosecute the German Jewish citizens. Frank’s father

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    Diary of Anne Frank is about a young jewish girl and her family going into hiding from the Nazis in the 1940s. Throughout the time in the attic where they are hiding, the characters learn many new things and face new challenges. The story is based off of a real diary that the main character, Anne Frank, kept at the time they were hiding. The story has been around for many years, and has even been made into movies and plays. Historical events are reflected in the play The Diary of Anne Frank by showing

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    Reading Anne Frank Diary

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    Anne Frank: a young Jewish girl who lived in Europe with big dreams, and an even bigger heart. She had the jaw dropping ability to touch the hearts of millions around the world with her heart wrenching story swirling within the pages of her diary. She wrote down all her feelings in her little red checkered diary with the hopes of living to see it published and red by little children all over the world. Unfortunately, only half of that statement is true. Reading Anne Frank’s diary is a truly mind

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    Unlike most protagonist found in books, Anne Frank is a real person, with complicated emotions and impulsive reactions. This makes the book a lot more interesting, but it also makes it a lot harder to pin down what makes Anne Frank, well, Anne Frank. Though there is much to learn and observe about Anne Frank to truly pin down her main character traits, based on the first fifteen pages, I would characterise Anne Frank as shrewd and lonely, because she has a better understanding of the people and world

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    Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, she was the daughter of Otto and Edith Frank. Anne and her sister Margot grew up in Germany, but before World War II Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam for two years. During World War II Adolph Hitler killed nearly six million Jews. In 1934, Anne attended Amsterdam’s Sixth Montessori School, for five years she lived a normal childhood. She had many friends and not all were Jews. In 1939 the Nazi invaded Poland starting

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    people want to make memories that will last a lifetime, but, can those memories help one survive? Or does one need physical things? When going into the Secret Annex, Anne says, “I put in the craziest things with the idea that we were going into hiding. But I’m not sorry, memories mean more to me than dresses” (Frank 15). By this point, Anne was unsure of just how serious this hiding would be. And because she is young, she did not realize that there were things she had to have in order to live. But, as

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    annoyed, right? Imagine being stuck in a small house with them without being able to go outside. It would be hard. Anne Frank did exactly that for twenty-five months with not only a few people but seven other people. They had no clue what was going on in the outside world so when they found out things that were happening imagine there reactions. The historical events in the play Anne Frank impact the mood and relationships of the characters immensely. The mood gets changed multiple times in the play

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