Transcript The Diary of Anne Frank

Tracie Alo
May 24, 2007
The Diary of
Timeline: Before
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June 12, 1929 Annelies Marie Frank is born in
Frankfurt, Germany.
1933 Frank family moves to Amsterdam, Holland,
when Hitler comes to power in Germany.
June 12, 1942 Anne receives a diary for her
thirteenth birthday.
July, 1942 Margot Frank gets a call to report to a
transit camp.
July 6, 1942 The Frank family moves into the
'secret annex‘.
Timeline: After
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Aug 4, 1944 The Franks are arrested, taken to a police
station, the to Westerbork, a transit camp in Holland.
Oct 30, 1944 Anne and her sister, Margot, are sent to
Bergen-Belsen.
Jan 6, 1945 Edith Frank dies of starvation in
Auschwitz.
Jan 7, 1945 Auschwitz is liberated. Otto Frank is the
only survivor from the annex.
March 1945 Margot dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen.
April 1945 Anne dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen.
Literary Analysis
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Plot: Sequence of related events that make up a
story
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Conflict (Internal/External)
Flashback
Exposition
Rising Action
Resolution
Climax
Conflict
A struggle between opposing forces
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External Conflict: A character struggles against
another person or outside force
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Based on the difficult situation in which they are living
Anne and her mother, Edith, struggle with Anne’s
growing up and wanting to be treated older than her
mother treats her
Conflict
A struggle between
opposing forces
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Internal Conflict: A struggle within a person
or character
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Anne puts up a hard exterior as a defense
She is afraid people won’t respect her if they see
the real Anne
She writes her true feelings in her diary
Flashback
Presenting facts that took place at
an earlier time
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The playwright uses flashback to set the stage for
the events to follow.
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Otto Frank enters the secret annex after the war and
begins to read Anne’s diary aloud.
Anne’s voice overlaps with his as she begins to tell the
story through her diary.
Exposition
Sets the tone, establishes setting, introduces characters, and
give background information
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The narrator gives information to set the stage for
the readers
In play form, much of this information is presented
through sets, costuming and stage directions
The exposition is an important part of all literature
to draw the reader into the story
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All the action takes place in the ‘secret annex’
Rising Action
The events in a story that move the plot forward
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Anne begins to realize hiding is more
difficult than she originally thought
She is in constant fear during the
night, jumping at every sound,
afraid the Nazi’s are coming for her
Anne’s personality clashes with the
others in hiding, especially with her
mother and Peter
The tension with all inhabitants is
escalating, causing various problems
throughout the story
Climax
The turning point of the story
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The climax usually occurs
toward the end of the story, after
the reader has become
emotionally involved with the
characters
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The arrival of the Nazis to the
‘secret annex’ marks the climax of
the story
All the tension that has built
throughout the plot reaches its
peak and ends here
Resolution
Conflicts are resolved by the end
of the story
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Throughout the story, a number of minor conflicts
are resolved while in the ‘secret annex’
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Anne and Peter begin to become friends
Anne’s relationship with her mother becomes better
Everyone is so happy about the end of the war, they forget
their grudges against each other
Mr. Frank’s final speech resolves the major conflict
set out at the beginning of they play telling what
happened after their discovery in the ‘secret annex’.
How Did It Happen?
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German military attacked The Netherlands
Identification of Dutch Jews with yellow stars and
laws discriminating against them
In 1942 the Germans began sending them to
concentration camps
Of the 140,000 Jews living there, 102,000 were
exterminated by the Nazis
Interesting Links
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Anne Frank Museum Amsterdam
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Anne Frank Center
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http://www.annefrank.com/
Miep Gies
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http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Miepgies.htm
Simon Wiesenthal Center
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http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=fwLYKnN8Lz
H&b=242023
What Did You Learn?
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Why did the Frank family go into hiding?
What is external conflict? Give an example from
the story.
What is internal conflict? Give an example from
the story.
Give an example of rising action from the story.
What is the climax of the story?
Historical
Facts
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World War II lasted about six years.
Over 6,000,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis in the
concentration and death camps during the
Holocaust! This was established by the Nuremberg
tribunal in 1946.
Some people believe the Holocaust did not happen.
Others believe Anne Frank did not write her dairy,
but that her father, Otto Frank did, to profit off the
deaths of those in the ‘secret annex’
Works Cited
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Grolier Online
http://go.grolier.com/
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Picture of Anne Frank
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Picture of Anne Frank’s diary
Eppsnet
http://eppsnet.com/images/anne-frank.jpg
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Picture of gravesite
Solarnavigator
http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/anne_fr
anks_diary.htm
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Picture of Anne Frank
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Picture of bookcase hiding place
AnneFrank.org
http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=2
3&LID=2
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Picture of Anne at desk
The Seem to be Players
http://www.lawrenceartscenter.com/STB/Anne
Frank/i/ANNE.jpg
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Picture collage
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/50476
36.stm
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Anne, Margot, Edith
IMBd
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0112373/1-1.jpg
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Anne, Margot, Otto
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Anne Frank Museum
http://www.annefrank.org/upload/Thematisch
e%20verhalen/thema%2014_bergen%20belsen.j
pg
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Bergen-Belsen
World War II Research Index
http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/war/camp
map.jpg
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Map of Camps
Miep Gies
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Miepgies.htm
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Annex
Anne Frank in the World
http://www.uen.org/annefrank/annetimeline.
shtml
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Timeline
Go World Travel
http://www.goworldtravel.com/aug05/LEADa
nnefrank.jpg
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Secret Annex
Dizzy Girl
http://dizzy-girl.net/archives/annefrank.jpg
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Anne Frank Picture
Wallenberg
http://wallenberg.umich.edu/images/Gies.gif
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Anne Frank & Miep Geis