Anne Frank's Isolation

Jacobs’ story reminds me a lot of Anne Frank and her isolation to avoid getting caught by the Nazi’s. Anne Frank has the advantage—if we can call it that—of hiding out with her family Jacobs, however, is completely isolated in the small garret above her grandmother’s shed. At least Frank had room to walk and activities to do. Jacobs had nothing to do but listen to conversations in the street and survive. Jacobs had to endure the pain of being away from her children. Although, many slave women had to give up their children, knowing her children were so close but she couldn’t talk to or hug them must have been