The Diary of Anne Frank The story Diary of Anne Frank was a very interesting book which showed the ways a group of Jewish people during the 1940’s went about trying to conceal their identity and themselves. This story was a true story taken from a diary of a young girl during the incident. This was made into a play during 1955. This was praised as Frances Goodrich’s and her husband Albert Hackett’s most famous work as it was performed. The play was started in November of 1945. As Mr. Frank
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“Anne Hathaway” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ the current poet laureate‚ is a strikingly poignant poem. It is in the persona of Anne Hathaway‚ Shakespeare’s wife‚ and is perceived to be the opinion of what she thinks about when she is left the second best bed in his will. The sonnet explores the loss felt by Hathaway as she grieves for her husband. Throughout the poem Duffy effectively uses poetic techniques to explore the feeling of loss felt by Hathaway as she is now a widow. The sonnet form allows Duffy
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“in protecting her husband she betrays her sons” Do you feel this is a fair assessment of kate? The character of Kate has a central role‚ in this play by Arthur Miller‚ because the story is about her family and set in the mundane arena of her back garden. Kate is the wife of the main protagonist and her actions affect her sons‚ her husband and future daughter in law. Kate is a woman of enormous maternal love‚ which extends to her neighbors’ children George and Anne. Despite her instinctive warmth
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Author to Her Book” Anne Bradstreet presents a false sense of humility in her extended metaphor where she personifies her very own book as her child‚ calling it “ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain” (3). The author is practically saying her work is trash and that she isn’t good enough. This false sense of humility is common with authors‚ especially during that time when women weren’t considered capable of coming up with a good piece of writing. Bradstreet is not only self-deprecating her work‚ but
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Question 2.2. Anne describes the annex as a ’little piece of blue heaven’ surrounded by what? (Points : 2) heavy rain clouds the canal a vacuum Question 3.3. Anne has upsetting dreams and visions of a school friend. Which one? (Points : 2) Jopie de Waal Miep de Jong Lies Goosen Question 4.4. What do the dreams and visions remind Anne? (Points : 2) She is very lucky to be safe as many are not. She forgot something at her friend’s
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In her letter to her son‚ John Quincey Adams‚ Abigail Adams uses picturesque diction‚ a supportive tone‚ and allusions to encourage John Quincey Adams to persevere through his current journey and the ones to come‚ even when he does not want to. The first noticeable technique that Abigail Adams uses is picturesque diction that develops through her elaborate descriptions of the trials of life. In her letter‚ she describes the struggles in life as if she was referring to people on a battlefield‚ flourishing
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The Author to Her Book In "The Author to Her Book‚" Anne Bradstreet explains how she felt when her poems were published without her knowledge and consent. She explains these feelings of resentment‚ humiliation‚ pride‚ affection‚ and commitment with the use of many poetic devices. She frequently experiences an internal struggle. Bradstreet uses extended metaphor throughout the poem to express her unhappiness with the publishing of her poems. The use of this metaphor helps us to relate
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Early Life Holocaust victim; famous diarist. Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12‚ 1929‚ in Frankfurt‚ Germany. Her mother was Edith Frank‚ and her father‚Otto Frank‚ was a lieutenant in the German Army during World War I who later became a businessman in Germany and the Netherlands. Frank also had a sister named Margot‚ three years her senior. The Franks were a typical upper middle-class German-Jewish family living in a quiet‚ religiously diverse neighborhood near the outskirts of
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2. Why does Gilman make both the narrator’s brother and her husband doctors? (Use “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” in your answer). Might the narrator actually be physically ill? Reading “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” I came to feel that Gilman made both the narrator’s brother and husband doctors to make point that men in general were the dominant species. Having both men as doctors shows that men had the well established careers‚ knowledge‚ authority‚ and the women were meant to be
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writing a letter to her daughter about her granddaughter’s education. To her‚ education is the most important thing a woman can have. During her letter she uses tone shifts‚ self flattery and first person pronouns to convey her point. Being a grandmother and mother‚ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is very concerned with their futures. She uses a demanding tone rather than a suggestive one to tell her daughter what her granddaughter should do. Later in the letter she uses a tone of resentment. During her time
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