Danish Girl Student

At the very beginning of act 2.3, it starts out with the narrarator speaking. He informs the audience that everyone is in bed sleeping, and then a match is lit up in the Van Daans room and the put out. Mr.Van Daan creeps out of his room and sneakily opens the safe and takes out a half loaf of bread. Msr.Frank sees him and starts yelling to Mr.Frank, Mr.Dussel is awakened as is Mrs.Van Daan and Peter. All of them with an exception of Mrs.Van Daan who is protective of her husband are extremely angry, and Mrs.Frank even tells them she wants them to leave.

I think that this was a very selfish act, and it would have been very consequential for the other members living at the house. They are all in it together, they all have had to change their lives and make tremendous adjustments, and then Mr.Van Daan selfishly steals the bread that was supposed to be food for everyone else. He didn’t even need it the most, Anne, Peter and Margot are kids and they need the food the most.

So I think that if I were in Mrs.Franks position I probably would have forced them to leave the house aswell, because once someone whom you are meant to be trusting of does something like that you don’t know if you can reply on him for anything else, and you can tell that if he were to steal bread from children who need it the most, he musn’t be a very good person.

When the two families; The Franks and the Van Daan’s, the amount of items they brought were very limited, they brought the necessary clothing, Peter brought his cat, some school books and then a few bits and bobs. It is so hard to imagine leaving everything I own behind, and have to make choices as to what means the most to me. It would also be hard to choose between things that are practical and things that have a special meaning or significance to me. I guess, the first things we would take as a family would be clothes, and some canned foods of our own, and for myself I would take books, pictures, our dogs, a game of cards (to keep myself busy between 8am to 6pm) and my ipod.

It would be awful to have to think of never seeing your friends again, or being outside, going to the cinema, or even going to school. And having to stay quiet for 10 hours a day is unbelievable, but I guess that when you are in their situation and not only your life but the lives of your siblings, and parents are in danger you will do all you can to prevent anything from happening, even if that means bordering yourself within tight walls for months on end, with limited access to food and fresh air.

If I had been in their situation but had managed to live through the war the first thing I would do after months of hiding would be to run. Feeling so locked down all the time would be awful and having the oportunity to run and feel free again would be really liberating and would feel so great. And not having to worry anymore about being caught,captured or discriminated would be the most overwhelming feeling in the world.

Mr.Kraler enters the annex in scene act 1 scene 3 to ask for Mr.Franks permission to allow one more guest to hide with them in the annex. The guest is name Mr.Dussel and he is a jewish dentist seeking a place to stay, without hesitation Mr.Frank agrees to let him hide with them.

In my opinion I think that this was the right thing to do because Mr.Frank is a kind man, and he was risking a lack of food and space for himself and his family and friends to save this mans life, and the jewish people had really ought to stick together and help one another out because they are all each other has. Also, because I think that if the situation was reversed Mr.Frank would like the same hospitality.

However, I do not think that this was the very logical thing to do. Considering the fact that there was already not enough food to keep everyone satisfied and the space they had was very limited. Now with that one more guest, would decrease the shared amount of food and space each individual was allowed. Also having more people up in the annex increases the chance of maybe getting caught, and the more noise there will be. Also, they didn’t even know the man, they didn’t know whether they could trust him to share everything equally and also to not make sound during the day when the workers are there.

But I guess even though things could have gone terribly wrong, it was a really good thing to do, and it shows how caring and generous the Frank family really was.

I had never read Anne Franks diary before, so I was eager to begin reading it. I thought the book we were reading would be nearly an exact translation in english of Anne Franks dairy entires, but instead it wasn’t. It wasn’t even set out like a normal narrative story, it was like a script for a play, and used the information Anne wrote in her diary to create a play/story out of it. At first I didn’t like it since I had never really read any books where it was set out like a scipt but as I read on and got used to it, I enjoyed it alot more because it was actually easier to read.

I quite liked the book, a lot more than I expected because I asked a few people who had read different versions of Anne Frank’s diary and they said it was boring up until the end. But, surprisingly I liked the middle bits a lot as well because we already know the general facts about what happened to the Jews during WW2, but it was different to read about someones life in hiding, how they felt, how they dealt and where you don’t hear a lot about the facts, more about how they lived and things they went through in order to survive and not get caught.