Anne Frank Conflict
Paragraph Three: Conflict
(a)The main conflict in The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is that the Frank family, the Van Daan family and Mr. Dussel are hiding in the Secret Annex during the Holocaust and are constantly in fear of being caught and sent to a concentration camp. This conflict is man vs society and is an external conflict because during the Holocaust, the malevolent society led people to believe that Jews were evil, although, the millions of the Jews that were killed during the Holocaust were innocent- including Anne and most of the others she was in hiding with. (b1) Dolefully, the conflict in Anne’s diary was not resolved since she and the seven others she was in hiding with had been found by the Nazi soldiers and were sent …show more content…
to a concentration camp. Their goal of surviving through the Holocaust had not been achieved. Anne was affected by this because she had died in a concentration camp from a disease in which her sister, Margot, had passed on to her. But, Anne was also affected by this in a more positive way- she became a legend. Her diary told her tragic yet inspiring story to the world, letting her live long after her death. The fact that the conflict in The Diary of a Young Girl was not resolved was shown on page 281, in the ‘Afterword’ section of the book, which described what had happened to Anne and the seven others after the diary. The Afterword explained how Otto Frank had survived and returned to see the Secret Annex, or, what was left of it, in hopes that any of the others had also survived. When he did arrive, the people who helped him and the seven others named Miep and Elli, were there, and according to the afterword, they “gave him the notebooks and papers in Anne’s handwriting that they had found strewn over the floor of the ‘secret annex’ after the Gestapo had gone. These were Anne’s diary, stories and sketches. They were all that remained.” (281) (c1) Here, one can see that the conflict was not resolved because Anne’s diary, Anne’s stories and Anne’s sketches were “all that remained”, which means that her diary was all that was left of the all the people who once dwelled in “The Secret Annex”. Everything else, everybody else, was gone. The main conflict in the book was that Anne and the others she was in hiding with were trying to survive during the Holocaust, and most of them did not. The conflict not being resolved affected Anne in a terrible way- she lost her life. But, because the conflict was not resolved, her story became known around the world. Anne became one of the most admirable people in history, and she has impacted millions of lives today. (b2) Additionally, the “afterword” described how Anne had passed away. The text illustrates the idea that Anne had died from a disease, and that “‘she died, peacefully feeling that nothing bad was happening to her.’ She was not yet sixteen.” (280) (c2) Describing that she was not yet sixteen yet she had died shows that the conflict was not resolved because the whole idea of being in hiding was to not get sent to a concentration camp and most likely die, yet Anne had died in a concentration camp. This of course is how Anne was affected, but the idea that she had not lived until sixteen, yet she died, made her story even more powerful to people. It taught people exactly how horrifyingly evil the Holocaust was, to kill innocent people, even people at such a young age as fifteen. This made Anne extremely famous, from the fact that she was an innocent young girl, but she was murdered at the hands of the Nazis. Her story is much more powerful than other Holocaust stories because she had actually experienced living during the Holocaust. Other authors, try as they may, cannot describe the fear and the tragedy of the Holocaust as much as Anne could because they have never lived through the Holocaust. By reading about the Holocaust from a first handed source makes the story a lot more real and powerful to people. Because she taught people about how tragic the Holocaust was through her diary, Anne became a legend. (b3) Before Anne’s work was presented, there was an introduction written by the noble Eleanor Roosevelt. In her writing, Roosevelt describes how amazing and moving Anne’s diary was, as she writes “These are the thoughts and expressions of a young girl living under extraordinary conditions, and for this reason her diary tells us much about ourselves and about our own children. And for this reason, too, I felt how close we all are to Anne’s experience, how very much involved we are in her short life and in the entire world” (Roosevelt 2) (c3) Here, it is shown that the conflict is not resolved because Roosevelt is reflecting on Anne, saying how Anne’s diary changed everybody who read it because everyone can relate to her even though she may have had a short life span. This proves that the conflict was not resolved because Anne, even though trying to survive, had died which makes people such as Eleanor Roosevelt connect Anne to her children- because Anne did not live long enough to grow much older than a child. Nonetheless, Anne still changed the world and lived far beyond her death, which is how the conflict not being resolved affected her.
And even though she died, Anne still impacted the world and became known and loved worldwide to this day. (d) A song that would complement the conflict in the book The Diary of A Young Girl is the song “Pompeii” by the band Bastille. (e) The lyrics of the song can easily relate to the hardships that Anne had to endure and how frightening the whole experience was. For example, the lyric “and the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love” can relate to the conflict. This lyric can relate since during the Holocaust, there were so many air raids and bombings which made certain parts of Europe so devoid of cheer that nobody could remember how lively those places once were. It was as if everything was crumbling down, in the place that was once loved by so many. Additionally, the lyric “great clouds roll over the hills bringing darkness from above” relates to The Diary of a Young Girl, but more figuratively rather than literally. This is because the great clouds signify the dastardly Adolf hitler and his reign and how he brought darkness and destruction. He spread his reign like a cloud rolling over a hill, persistent and powerful. Another lyric that relates to the conflict is “But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel
like nothing changed at all? But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like you’ve been here before”. This lyric relates because Anne several times in her diary talks about how much she has changed. She used to be rather full of herself, but she became more more humble and mature because of everything that she had to undergo. Plus, this lyric can relate to the change in the atmosphere during the Holocaust. Everything suddenly changed and innocent people were being murdered every single day, and also how everything unexpectedly changed in Anne’s life. She all of a sudden had to go in hiding and had to fear for her life every waking moment. In hiding, she reflects on her life now and what it once was like. How she used to be carefree and happy, how suddenly everything was different, and this related to the lyric“does it almost feel like you’ve been here before”. The last lyric that relates to the conflict is “Oh where do we begin? The rubble of our sins” because of all of the cruelty and barbarity during the Holocaust, and how all of those bad deeds, all of those sins, only made things worse. It left the world covered in the debris and rubble left behind by the sins of the Nazis. This goes along with the lyric “Many days fell away with nothing to show” because the death and destruction were all done but it had accomplished nothing except despair and bloodshed. The time period of the Holocaust can relate to this lyric because everyday more of Hitler’s wishes were a reality- including the death of millions of innocent people, yet those years “fell away with nothing to show”. Killing innocent people had nothing to show- no greater outcome. All that it had brought was darkness and evil.
Paragraph Four: Theme
(a) The theme in Anne’s diary The Diary of a Young Girl is that sometimes, optimism is vital in a terrible situation. (b1) This theme was woven throughout the novel and is shown in many parts including on March 29, 1944. On this day, Anne wrote to Kitty that she thinks that in the future, people would be interested in knowing the Jewish people’s daily lives during the Holocaust, as she writes “But, seriously, it would seem quite funny ten years after the war if we Jews were to tell how how we lived and what we ate and talked about here,” (Frank 192). (c1) By writing this, Anne shows that she thinks that there will be a ‘ten years after the war’ for her, confirming that she is being optimistic even through one of the most evil time periods the world has ever seen. Here, the theme that optimism is most valuable in an awful situation is shown since Anne had been thinking of the bright side, that the war would come to a conclusion and the Jewish people would be looked upon as brave and strong. She hoped for a day where people would ask her what she would eat and what she would wear and other simple questions about her life in hiding. Her being so optimistic during such a dark time indicates that the theme is that optimism is most needed during a terrible situation. (b2) Additionally, the theme was found when Anne was writing to her journal about how God will help the Jewish people through this time, and that the Jewish will come out of the Holocaust stronger than ever before. She writes “Be brave! Let us remain aware of our task and not grumble, a solution will come, God has never deserted our people. Right through the ages there have been Jews, through all the ages they have had to suffer, but it has made them strong, too; the weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!” (Frank 206). (c2) By writing this, it is shown that Anne is hopeful that God will lead the Jews out of the Holocaust and that the scars they have will only make them stronger. She is being very optimistic here by having the faith in God that he will make the future brighter for all Jews. By being optimistic, Anne is proving that the theme of the novel is that optimism is very important in terrible situations. (b3) The last part of the novel where the theme is shown shows that Anne truly has one of the most pure and accepting hearts of anyone in history. One can see this when they read her diary, as on July 15, 1944, her journal reads “I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again” (Frank 263-264). (c3) After reading this, one can easily see that Anne truly has an admirable and honorable heart because she could keep being hopeful and optimistic through a time of adversity, sorrow and fear. This also evinces that the theme is that optimism is essential in dark times because Anne always remained optimistic no matter what amount of suffering the world has given her. She still believes that the world will find peace one day and everything will return back to normal which is shows that she is exceptional from the fact that she remains optimistic through such evil times of woe.Throughout the novel, there was the returning idea of optimism and how it is needed in dark times and how Anne always remained optimistic even though everything around her was anything but. Therefore, one of the themes in Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl is that optimism is crucial during dark times.
(a)The main conflict in The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is that the Frank family, the Van Daan family and Mr. Dussel are hiding in the Secret Annex during the Holocaust and are constantly in fear of being caught and sent to a concentration camp. This conflict is man vs society and is an external conflict because during the Holocaust, the malevolent society led people to believe that Jews were evil, although, the millions of the Jews that were killed during the Holocaust were innocent- including Anne and most of the others she was in hiding with. (b1) Dolefully, the conflict in Anne’s diary was not resolved since she and the seven others she was in hiding with had been found by the Nazi soldiers and were sent …show more content…
to a concentration camp. Their goal of surviving through the Holocaust had not been achieved. Anne was affected by this because she had died in a concentration camp from a disease in which her sister, Margot, had passed on to her. But, Anne was also affected by this in a more positive way- she became a legend. Her diary told her tragic yet inspiring story to the world, letting her live long after her death. The fact that the conflict in The Diary of a Young Girl was not resolved was shown on page 281, in the ‘Afterword’ section of the book, which described what had happened to Anne and the seven others after the diary. The Afterword explained how Otto Frank had survived and returned to see the Secret Annex, or, what was left of it, in hopes that any of the others had also survived. When he did arrive, the people who helped him and the seven others named Miep and Elli, were there, and according to the afterword, they “gave him the notebooks and papers in Anne’s handwriting that they had found strewn over the floor of the ‘secret annex’ after the Gestapo had gone. These were Anne’s diary, stories and sketches. They were all that remained.” (281) (c1) Here, one can see that the conflict was not resolved because Anne’s diary, Anne’s stories and Anne’s sketches were “all that remained”, which means that her diary was all that was left of the all the people who once dwelled in “The Secret Annex”. Everything else, everybody else, was gone. The main conflict in the book was that Anne and the others she was in hiding with were trying to survive during the Holocaust, and most of them did not. The conflict not being resolved affected Anne in a terrible way- she lost her life. But, because the conflict was not resolved, her story became known around the world. Anne became one of the most admirable people in history, and she has impacted millions of lives today. (b2) Additionally, the “afterword” described how Anne had passed away. The text illustrates the idea that Anne had died from a disease, and that “‘she died, peacefully feeling that nothing bad was happening to her.’ She was not yet sixteen.” (280) (c2) Describing that she was not yet sixteen yet she had died shows that the conflict was not resolved because the whole idea of being in hiding was to not get sent to a concentration camp and most likely die, yet Anne had died in a concentration camp. This of course is how Anne was affected, but the idea that she had not lived until sixteen, yet she died, made her story even more powerful to people. It taught people exactly how horrifyingly evil the Holocaust was, to kill innocent people, even people at such a young age as fifteen. This made Anne extremely famous, from the fact that she was an innocent young girl, but she was murdered at the hands of the Nazis. Her story is much more powerful than other Holocaust stories because she had actually experienced living during the Holocaust. Other authors, try as they may, cannot describe the fear and the tragedy of the Holocaust as much as Anne could because they have never lived through the Holocaust. By reading about the Holocaust from a first handed source makes the story a lot more real and powerful to people. Because she taught people about how tragic the Holocaust was through her diary, Anne became a legend. (b3) Before Anne’s work was presented, there was an introduction written by the noble Eleanor Roosevelt. In her writing, Roosevelt describes how amazing and moving Anne’s diary was, as she writes “These are the thoughts and expressions of a young girl living under extraordinary conditions, and for this reason her diary tells us much about ourselves and about our own children. And for this reason, too, I felt how close we all are to Anne’s experience, how very much involved we are in her short life and in the entire world” (Roosevelt 2) (c3) Here, it is shown that the conflict is not resolved because Roosevelt is reflecting on Anne, saying how Anne’s diary changed everybody who read it because everyone can relate to her even though she may have had a short life span. This proves that the conflict was not resolved because Anne, even though trying to survive, had died which makes people such as Eleanor Roosevelt connect Anne to her children- because Anne did not live long enough to grow much older than a child. Nonetheless, Anne still changed the world and lived far beyond her death, which is how the conflict not being resolved affected her.
And even though she died, Anne still impacted the world and became known and loved worldwide to this day. (d) A song that would complement the conflict in the book The Diary of A Young Girl is the song “Pompeii” by the band Bastille. (e) The lyrics of the song can easily relate to the hardships that Anne had to endure and how frightening the whole experience was. For example, the lyric “and the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love” can relate to the conflict. This lyric can relate since during the Holocaust, there were so many air raids and bombings which made certain parts of Europe so devoid of cheer that nobody could remember how lively those places once were. It was as if everything was crumbling down, in the place that was once loved by so many. Additionally, the lyric “great clouds roll over the hills bringing darkness from above” relates to The Diary of a Young Girl, but more figuratively rather than literally. This is because the great clouds signify the dastardly Adolf hitler and his reign and how he brought darkness and destruction. He spread his reign like a cloud rolling over a hill, persistent and powerful. Another lyric that relates to the conflict is “But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel
like nothing changed at all? But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like you’ve been here before”. This lyric relates because Anne several times in her diary talks about how much she has changed. She used to be rather full of herself, but she became more more humble and mature because of everything that she had to undergo. Plus, this lyric can relate to the change in the atmosphere during the Holocaust. Everything suddenly changed and innocent people were being murdered every single day, and also how everything unexpectedly changed in Anne’s life. She all of a sudden had to go in hiding and had to fear for her life every waking moment. In hiding, she reflects on her life now and what it once was like. How she used to be carefree and happy, how suddenly everything was different, and this related to the lyric“does it almost feel like you’ve been here before”. The last lyric that relates to the conflict is “Oh where do we begin? The rubble of our sins” because of all of the cruelty and barbarity during the Holocaust, and how all of those bad deeds, all of those sins, only made things worse. It left the world covered in the debris and rubble left behind by the sins of the Nazis. This goes along with the lyric “Many days fell away with nothing to show” because the death and destruction were all done but it had accomplished nothing except despair and bloodshed. The time period of the Holocaust can relate to this lyric because everyday more of Hitler’s wishes were a reality- including the death of millions of innocent people, yet those years “fell away with nothing to show”. Killing innocent people had nothing to show- no greater outcome. All that it had brought was darkness and evil.
Paragraph Four: Theme
(a) The theme in Anne’s diary The Diary of a Young Girl is that sometimes, optimism is vital in a terrible situation. (b1) This theme was woven throughout the novel and is shown in many parts including on March 29, 1944. On this day, Anne wrote to Kitty that she thinks that in the future, people would be interested in knowing the Jewish people’s daily lives during the Holocaust, as she writes “But, seriously, it would seem quite funny ten years after the war if we Jews were to tell how how we lived and what we ate and talked about here,” (Frank 192). (c1) By writing this, Anne shows that she thinks that there will be a ‘ten years after the war’ for her, confirming that she is being optimistic even through one of the most evil time periods the world has ever seen. Here, the theme that optimism is most valuable in an awful situation is shown since Anne had been thinking of the bright side, that the war would come to a conclusion and the Jewish people would be looked upon as brave and strong. She hoped for a day where people would ask her what she would eat and what she would wear and other simple questions about her life in hiding. Her being so optimistic during such a dark time indicates that the theme is that optimism is most needed during a terrible situation. (b2) Additionally, the theme was found when Anne was writing to her journal about how God will help the Jewish people through this time, and that the Jewish will come out of the Holocaust stronger than ever before. She writes “Be brave! Let us remain aware of our task and not grumble, a solution will come, God has never deserted our people. Right through the ages there have been Jews, through all the ages they have had to suffer, but it has made them strong, too; the weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!” (Frank 206). (c2) By writing this, it is shown that Anne is hopeful that God will lead the Jews out of the Holocaust and that the scars they have will only make them stronger. She is being very optimistic here by having the faith in God that he will make the future brighter for all Jews. By being optimistic, Anne is proving that the theme of the novel is that optimism is very important in terrible situations. (b3) The last part of the novel where the theme is shown shows that Anne truly has one of the most pure and accepting hearts of anyone in history. One can see this when they read her diary, as on July 15, 1944, her journal reads “I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again” (Frank 263-264). (c3) After reading this, one can easily see that Anne truly has an admirable and honorable heart because she could keep being hopeful and optimistic through a time of adversity, sorrow and fear. This also evinces that the theme is that optimism is essential in dark times because Anne always remained optimistic no matter what amount of suffering the world has given her. She still believes that the world will find peace one day and everything will return back to normal which is shows that she is exceptional from the fact that she remains optimistic through such evil times of woe.Throughout the novel, there was the returning idea of optimism and how it is needed in dark times and how Anne always remained optimistic even though everything around her was anything but. Therefore, one of the themes in Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl is that optimism is crucial during dark times.