Almost the entire force of this play comes from the foreknowledge that the characters are doomed. Anne will be captured. She will get sent to a concentration camp. And she will die there. Of course, all of that happens after the action of the play.

So what is the play itself about? Not much. The captives in the attic try as best they can to live their lives. We see them go about ordinary things, only again and again to be interrupted by some news of the outside world -- sometimes terrifying, sometimes hopeful. But for the audience, the news is almost always inconsequential, since we already know.

Thus, the meat of the play needs to be in the development and interrelationship between the characters. And I suppose that is OK, but not particularly good.

To be fair, the same criticism can be leveled at Frank's diary. But she wasn't writing the diary to create an impact on based on her ultimate capture. We may read it that way, but that wasn't what it was about. Rather, the diary puts a very human face on just one of the ways that people became victims during the Holocaust. In that respect, I think the diary and its effect are entirely different from this play.

The play, The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich is a heart touching story about a teenage girl and her life in the holocaust. In this story of true events, the Franks and Van Daans are taken into hiding in Amsterdam, so they would not be taken away and sent to concentration camps. Anne, Margot, Mr. and Mrs. Frank are a family who invited Peter, and Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan to stay with them until the war is over. Anne and Peter are the youngest out of the two families living in the Secret Annex and they become good friends and become each other's sources to talk to. In the daytime, nobody is allowed to make loud noises, or move around that much so they don't get caught and reported to the Nazis. But at night, they can be loud and have a good time. While trying to be quite, Anne spends her time writing in her journal and writing stories. When she can be loud, she is very hyper and playful. She would dance and sing and even dress up sometimes.

This book is very worth taking the time and reading it because it gives out such a great lesson, and opens your mind. One of the scenes that I felt was unnecessary was the first time the narrator mentioned Mr. Vaan Dan stealing the food. If it would've been kept a secret for a bit longer until everyone caught him, the reveal would've been more exciting and dramatic. The way that the author describes the scene and the characters are amazing. It gives me a clear understanding of what was happening and where it was located. The author included small details like stating when the bell rung. A specific scene in the book, was when Anne was stating how she felt alone, even with people everywhere, and that there are rough patches in life. She states how she needed someone to talk to because people don't get her. I related to this because there are some moments when I feel like I'm alone and there's no one to talk to, but then someone reaches out and asks if I'm okay, and lets me talk, just like Peter did to Anne. This book overall made me feel a variety of emotions including hope, fear, sadness, and happiness. Every scene was suspenseful, knowing that they might get caught and sent away. Anne was able to bring happiness to many situations like Hannukah. They celebrated the last night of Hannukah with a dinner, and Anne made them all gifts, to lift the mood.

One of the many themes of this book is that life is full of some bad times. An example of this could be the families being stuck in the Annex for two years, or when Peter's cat goes missing. I definitely loved this book and I learned a lot from it. All the many lessons it had, opened my mind more and made me more aware of reality and our history.

The Diary of Anne Frank,one of the most tragic books I have ever read. Starting from a good childhood life to a fearful escape, Anne Frank experiences the holocaust that was led by World War 2. Her tragic moments were the most devastating times of her life causing her to create this Diary Documentary about her feelings, her experiences, and etc. This diary documentary truly inspires many, as it represents how society rolls today. Each page was like a life-lesson or a theme that had to be read. In future references, I do hope that the world understands that genocide is caused by the hatred of one ethnicity.

Always one of my favorites. Every year that I teach this play I get something more from it. I understand something more about the characters, about their portrayals, about Anne's maturity over the course of the play, about their constant and nagging worry... Every year after finishing the play I go home and keep silence for the rest of the day because it is absolutely devastating to commit myself so fully to being a memory keeper of Anne's story and of the tragic events of the Holocaust. 8th grade students always have a staggering amount of questions and outrage after finishing this play. But as important as it is to explore the valleys of our past, I can't leave my students there. I have to find a way to pull them back up to more level emotional ground. That gets harder for me to do each year as we have more neo-Nazi visibility, more religious-based hate crimes, and internment on our own boarders.
Anne's story and her words are just as relevant for us Americans today as they were for the world when she wrote them so many decades ago.

Diary of Anne Frank Review

The Diary of Anne Frank is a book filled with courageous people and actions that they made to save others. Anne Frank is the main character and is a Jew. Her family went off to hiding in their new home called the "Secret Annex". The Frank family shared their new home with many people like the Van Daan family. They are a family of three; a mother, a father, and a son named Peter. Anne after a while warmed up to Peter, and they eventually fell in love with one another. But as people say love is a rose, and roses do have their downfalls, just like love. Peter had to move away with his parents and Anne was left heartbroken. She never liked another boy like that again.
Anne's hero throughout her life was her father because of everything he did for her and her family. He saved their lives to not go to the camps but by going into hiding Still giving Anne presents when they didn't have much money, and always being there to catch her when she stumbles with any type of problem. But that wasn't really the same for Anne's relationship with her mother. Anne and her mother fought all the time and Anne always felt undermined to her older sister Margot. Anne's whole family and even Mrs. Van Daan had to comment on Anne not being as well brought as her sister. But her father would always step in and stand up for Anne. Even through their hard times as a family they would always apologize to one another.
Anne's dream was to be a writer when she was older and her dream came true in a way. Anne was later taken to the German camps where her mother had died and her sister had became very ill. Anne forgave her mother and herself for all the bad and mean things that they told each other. Anne's sister died only a few days before Anne did. Her father, Otto Frank was the only survivor of the family. After he left the camps Otto Frank published Anne's diary.
This book was phenomenally written by a 15 year old girl who went through a tragedy that was something no one should ever have experienced. The message of the book that the author wanted people to get after reading her diary will never be known. But the way that the reader connects personally with Anne and her stories is the message. The message that I received after reading her diary was not with one word that could sum up the book, but can be expressed through many. Bravery, is what she showed to the world and used to get through the tough times. Live life the best you can because you never know what will happen in the future, and being thankful for what you have and the people you share your life with because things could always be worse. I really enjoyed her stories about her life, about what she went through, what she did, and how she overcame that time period. I liked reading about her life, but it made me sick to my stomach when I would read what the Germans were doing to the Jews and other people who broke the law just by trying to help a Jew. Also what harsh things a Jews would have to do to just to survive through the night.
I did not like when Anne talked about "liking" other girls but that did not effect my overall rating of the book. This is a book that everyone should read because they would learn to appreciate their own lives, and that there are real things that happened to this girl that most teenagers can relate to. This isn't a made up book where people can't relate to fairy tale creatures and just to read for entertainment. But a real person who is a hero for many and a person of inspiration for most. I would recommend this book to anyone who has never read it before just because of the message that is made from the relationship created by the reader and Anne.

Read this in school
Words can’t describe how much I love Anne Frank and her story
I have to read her actually diary now

One of those non fiction readings that compel you to empathize with the victims of the olden times and is sure to teach you how being grateful even during the worst of adversities helps re-establish hope and optimism, which is a mandate during every time in life, and especially during harsh and hopeless times.
Heartbreaking, yet beautifully written in a candid and innocent manner, by teenage Anne Frank, who later succumbed to an epidemic at the tender age of 16, desribes the events encountered by her and other Jews who had to go into hiding in order to survive from the Nazi Rule. She describes the suffering of common people who were targeted during world war II in a holistic manner by merely writing her diary.
Unknowingly, she represents a major part of history of those who fought for their rights and to regain freedom. She covers abundant subjects during the course of her writings that reflect the complex struggles of a teenager who has faced and lived through the unimaginable and exemplifies strength of character and grit. Her writing also wounds to be an eye opener about the inequalities and threats to life created by man himself.

2.5

Read for school- Wasn’t actually that bad I just hate being forced to read.

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Prima di tutto devo specificare che, come quasi tutti penso, avevo letto questo libro per scuola, parecchi anni fa, però non me lo ricordavo affatto (tutti quelli che mi conoscono sanno in che povero stato è la mia memoria…) e con questa seconda lettura ne sono stata molto colpita. Un romanzo come non me lo aspettavo proprio, che quasi quasi mi fa domandare se effettivamente l’avevo letto, e che sono stata contentissima di poter riprendere.
Anne Frank è una ragazzina nel giugno del 42’, ci troviamo in Olanda e la seconda Guerra Mondiale è già iniziata da tre anni ormai. Anne e la sua famiglia sono ebrei e per questo non possono più fare moltissime cose, come uscire di casa dopo le otto di sera, usare i mezzi pubblici, praticare sport ecc. La data 12 giugno però è particolarmente importante perché è il suo compleanno, il giorno in cui riceve il diario, che poi diventerà tanto famoso. Si tratta di uno sfogo per lei, che infatti si sente molto sola e sente che non ha nessuno con cui confidarsi. Kitty (o Kit) è il nome che da al suo confidente (il diario). Le prime registrazioni sono quelle di una ragazzina normale che descrive la sua vita di tutti i giorni: la scuola, i suoi compagni, la famiglia, gli amici, quello che le capita. Ma la vera storia inizia quando il padre porta Anne e il resto della famiglia (Margot, la sorella e Edith, la madre) in un rifugio (Anne lo chiamerà l’Alloggio Segreto). Si tratta di un appartamento nascosto nella palazzina dove lavorava il padre. Era tutto organizzato, o quasi, e mancavano ancora dei giorni prima del “trasferimento”, ma anticipano le cose. Il 6 luglio i Frank occupano l’Alloggio Segreto. Successivamente a loro si aggiungono anche i Van Daan (il signor Van Daan è amico e socio del padre di Anne) e il signor Dussel, diventando in totale otto persone. I rifugiati riescono a sopravvivere fino al 1° agosto del 1944, quando il diario di Anne si interrompe bruscamente. Un gruppo di SS infatti il 4 agosto ha catturato i rifugiati e alcuni loro protettori.
Anne è una ragazzina come tante altre. Nonostante la tragica fine se l’è cavata bene (considerando cosa succedeva agli altri ebrei), fino a quel fatidico 4 agosto. Era una ragazzina con sogni e speranze che pensava di poter portare a termine, nonostante i mille dubbi e le mille crisi che alla sua tenera età ha dovuto sopportare. Sognava di diventare una giornalista e quando ha sentito alla radio che finita la guerra avrebbero raccolto i diari come testimonianze si è data subito da fare per sistemare quello che poteva, facendo annotazioni, tagli e aggiunte. Una ragazza che aveva deciso di esporsi completamente, di esporre tutti i suoi sentimenti, perché aveva capito che tutto quello andava ben oltre lei. Lei che è riuscita a sopravvivere ed essere arrivata così vicina alla fine, ma non abbastanza da farcela davvero.
Che dire delle mie emozioni? È stato un “romanzo” come non me lo aspettavo. Una ragazzina che parla normalmente degli amici e della scuola, di come non sopporta questo o quello. Un libro semplice ma profondo e intenso, che racconta tutta la miseria e il disagio che hanno dovuto sopportare quegli otto rifugiati. Dalla fame, all'impossibilità di parlare e ridere liberamente, al caldo, a freddo ecc. Ricordando anche le scene un po’ più comiche, come i dialoghi tra i signori Van Daan, con le uscite della signora oppure le sedute dentistiche del signor Dussel.
Nessuno si sente al sicuro e in effetti non lo sono mai veramente. C’è infatti la possibilità che qualcuno li senta, soprattutto di giorno, quando al piano di sotto lavorano delle persone totalmente ignari della loro presenza.
Il diario è scritto molto semplicemente, raccontando cose di tutti i giorni, pensieri di tutti i giorni, ma approfondendo allo stesso tempo tutto quello che le succedeva intorno.
Un libro che va letto almeno una volta nella vita, soprattutto perché, non parlando direttamente delle crudeltà avvenute, cambia un po’ la prospettiva di quei terribili anni che hanno segnato la storia umana.

OK, I'm sure I read excerpts from the Diary years ago for some class or another, and everyone who is literate knows the basics of Anne Frank's tragic story, but somehow I'd always missed reading it in any complete form. The adapted play has been coming up several times lately in the theater circles I run in, so I decided to give it a go.

I was unprepared for Anne's vivacity and her relative modernity. She reads like a more modern teenager, and it makes her sad death in the closing months of WWII that much more immediate and horrifying. I also wasn't ready for quite how much the adults in her attic world squabbled and picked at each other and the children as they tried to stay sane while forced to remain quiet throughout the days above a factory, every moment fearing betrayal, a casual mistake that would reveal their presence, or a more careful search by the Nazis. It must have been truly harrowing.

This is a sad work but so important and so easy to read. Everyone ought to try it.

This is a play of Anne Frank's story. Read this with my granddaughter during COVID 19. It had been awhile since I read this. I was in high school like my granddaughter is now. It was very emotional. Then we looked up pictures of the attic. It was much larger than I thought. The museum is closed due to COVID 19. As Anne and the others were isolated, so are all of us.

I loved this play. It’s was simple and complex at the same time. This was so emotionally charged I could not put it down, you really felt hope and ignored how you knew it was going to end. I really liked how the whole play was a flashback it added some nostalgia embedded in the pages. 10/10