Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Foreshadowing a) Why does Mr. Frank break down when he sees the glove???

Mr. Frank breaks down when he sees the glove because it was bringing back so many memories of the past to him. It could remind him of all sorts of things (probably bad things since he's crying) of the past during the Holocaust. Maybe he misses his daughter (Anne) or maybe he just was overwhelmed with emotion because of all the terrible times that they had to go through and this glove was a part of it so it made him remember those times.

What do I think the theme of the play Anne Frank is??

I think that there's more than 1 theme of Anne Frank. 1 theme is probably to never give up hope on anything. Throughout the play it shows many times how (usually) the Van Daans are all discouraged and just want to give up and think that it's over but Anne and Mr. Frank tell them to never give up hope and they pray and try to get everyone into happier moods. Another theme is courage. Every single person that was apart of keeping those people hidden or just hiding themselves were courageous. Their very lives were at risk by doing that, but they did it because they believed that Jews shouldn't be treated any different than anyone else and they wanted to show their loyalty and courage to their friends by helping them out. (In Miep and Mr. Kraler's case.) In the actual Jews that lived in the house the courage was to not lose hope and to be very aware of what was going on so that they would know when to be quiet or not. They had to watch out for everything that they did because one wrong move and they'd be caught. They were courageous to not just give up or get so scared that they couldn't think. They kept teir witts about them and pushed throught the hard times because of never giving up hope and being courageous.