Anne Frank :)

I am a very happy and social person,
But why does everybody want me to be quiet?
They say that I am annoying,
But in what way?
I like to have fun and spend my days playing
But nobody really seems to understand me any more.

In the attic I feel surrounded
as if the walls were closing in on me
Before I couldn't imagine my self being able
to survive in an attic for so long.
I have been here for a very long time
and still nothing seems to be going the way
that I wanted it to.

Being in an attic is boring
We can't make a lot of noise
or run water for a certain period of time
because the workers down stairs might hear us
We can't go outside and breathe in fresh air.
We are all in great danger

The more time that we spend trapped in the attic
The more scared we become.
Scared that the green police might find us.
The night mares I have seem so real
I become more frightened as the days go by.
Some of us just want the end to come
What ever the end might be
We want to leave
And live our lives happily.

The Van Daans don't seem to like me
and My mom doesn't seem to understand
My Father is the only one that I love.
Peter I can talk to
But I'm not sure if he even likes me
Every body wants me to me more like my sister, Margot
She is so innocent and so quiet,
But why pretend to be,
something that I am not?

As the time goes by
We hope that the end comes
Nothing has improved
Our food has been cut down
We all look a lot different
Life isn't the way that it was before.
Everything is so much different
And we have had to adapt to many different changes
Nothing is the same
and it never will be.

Character Analysis

ANNE FRANK:
Anne Frank is a young girl that kept a diary during the Holocaust and World War II. Her and her family had to go into hiding so that the Nazis wouldn't kill them. She was a 13 years old Jew when she first went into hiding with her family. Anne is the main character of the play because she wrote the diary.Anne is a very talkative and social person. Anne is very good at History and Latin but she doesn't like Algebra. She likes to have fun and smile. She thinks that being in an attic is a new experience for her. She really doesn't know or more like understand what going into hiding means yet. She thinks that it is pretty funny that her and her family will not be able to go outside for a while or breathe in the fresh air. Anne feels very scared in the night or when ever she hears a sound in the house or outside. She feels as if the Nazis were coming for them.
In the play there is a part where Anne is talking to her father about what they think of the attic (page 710). Anne says, “You know the way I'm going to think of it here? I am going to think of it as a boarding house. A very peculiar summer boarding house..." I think that this quote is important to the play because Anne is trying to make her best effort to not think of what going into hiding really means. I think that she is trying to think of it in a more fun way.
Anne gets along very good with her father. She loves her father a lot and feels closer to him than to anybody else in the attic. She doesn't feel close to her mom any more because she feels that she and her mom don't have anything in common and they don't understand each other any more. Mrs. Van Daan does not like Anne very much. She doesn't like her because Anne spilled a glass of milk on Mrs. Van Daan's fur coat and on her lap. Mrs. Van Daan's fur coat cost a lot of money and Anne ruined it and Anne ruined it by spilling milk on it. Anne and Mr. Van Daan don't get along very well either. Mr. Van Daan is always telling her how she should be more like her sister Margot. Mr. Van Daan says this to Anne because she is always mocking him and Anne is always talking. Mr. Van Daan wants Anne to be quiet and more polite but Anne says that she would rather open her veins before she becomes more like her sister. Anne gets frustrated because every body wants her to me more like her sister. Anne isn't and cannot be more like Margot. Anne Frank and Peter Van Daan have a love and hate relationship. They are always messing around with each other and the reason behind that is because Peter and Anne like each other but they just don't want to show it. Anne just wants to have fun and she needs some one to play with. But Mrs. Frank says that platying with boys is undignified. In this play Anne and the other characters have many different views on the attic and on each other.

ACT 1, SCENE 1 - 4

Scene 1: It is the year 1945 and Mr. Frank went back to the attic that the Franks and Van Daans were hiding in. He went back after the war was over. Meip was there too. Mr. Frank went back to the attic of the office one last time before leaving. Mr. Frank is leaving Amsterdam but doesnt know where he is going. Mr. Frank is leaving because he thinks that there is too many memories in Amsterdam. Meip finds some papers that were Mr. Franks and she asks him what she should do with them. Mr. Frank tells Meip to burn the papers. Meip finds Anne's diary and gives it to Mr. Frank. Mr. Frank starts to read it. In the diary entry it talks about how Mr. frank had told Anne that they were going to go into hiding. It also talks bout how in 1940 The Jews couln't do a lot of things. It says that they had to wear yellow stars where ever that they went. So they went into hiding and were waiting until the war ended.

Scene 2: It is the year 1942 and Mr. Van Daan are waiting for the Franks in the attic where they were going to hide. The Franks get to the hiding place where the Van Daans have been waiting for them and they have a lot of clothes on. They have a lot of clothes because they didn't want it to look suspicious if they carried suit cases. It is their first day in hiding. Mr. Kraler and Meip are going to be the people that keep the Franks and the Van Daans updated with news about what is going on in the outside world. They will also bring them food to eat and books to keep them busy. There is a couple of rules that the Franks and the Van Daans have to follow while they are in hiding. They can't use the bathroom, run water or make a lot of noise from eight in the morning to six in the afternoon because there are workers down stairs and they might be able to hear them. They also have to burn their trash so that they won't leave any trace that they were there. They can't take any risk for any body to know that they are up in the attic. Everybody meets each other and Mr. Frank gives Anne a diary that she can write into everyday. At the end of the scene Anne's diary enrty talks about how she feels about everything that is going on and how everything seems so much different than the way that it was before.



Scene 3:It is two months later after they went into hiding and it is a little bit past 6 o'çlock and the last worker had just left the building. Peter and Anne have a love hate relationship because they mess around with each other. The reason that they do that is because they like each other. Anne hides Peter's shoes and they start to fight. Mrs. Frank gets mad at Anne because she is playing rough with Peter. She tells Anne that it isn't dignified. Mrs. Van Daan calls Anne, Peter's little girl friend. Mr. Van Daan wants Anne to be more like her sister, Margot. Anne gets mad because they compare her to her sister. After a while of everybody talking Mr. Kraler asks the Franks and the Van Daans if they can except a new person in the attic. They except him and his name is Dussel. Mr. Kraler said that it was only going to be for a while until he finds Dussel another place to hide him. Dussel said that he thought that they had left to Switzerland because of the note that Mr. Frank had left in the house. Dussel tell them a lot about the things that were going on outside and in war.


Scene 4: It is a couple of months later after Scene 3 and Anne wakes up in the middle of the night screaming. She was having a night mare about the Nazis taking her away. Anne thought that they had found them. Dussel was trying to keep her to be quiet becuase he was afraid that some body out side would be able to hear her. Mrs. Frank comes rushing into the room and tries to calm Anne down. Every body else wakes up and goes to the room to try to see what is going on. As soon as everything is good mostly everybody goes back to sleep. Mrs. Frank offers to stay with Anne but Anne doesnt want her to stay. Anne wants her dad to stay with her instead of her mom. Her mom bends down to kiss her but Anne moves away. Her mom starts to cry because she feels that Anne doesn't love her. Mr. Frank goes inside with Anne and gives her a pill to calm her down. Anne starts talking about how she wants to change and be different but she just can't find a way to do that. In her diary entry it says that the night mares keep happening and how she thinks that the war might end soon.

What is Drama

What do you think of when you hear the word drama? Most people when they hear drama they think of a lot of gossip, riots, or sometimes even fighting. Drama in literature is different from drama in general. Drama in literature means a story that has a conflict. This story includes dialogue in order to make it interesting. The elements of drama in literature are all in a play. A play is something that gives you a perspective on the plot, characters, and setting. A play is performed on a stage using scripts. The elements of a stage are stage directions, dialogue, set and stage, plot, theme, costumes, and music and lighting. Scripts are what actors use to help them memorize what they have to say and the action that they are supposed to do with thier lines. The costumes are the clothes that the characters wear in the play. What the character wears expresses their personality and their style. A play has a central message and the central message is called a theme. There is seven main themes. A play can be more than one theme. The seven themes are war, love, family, redemption, tragedy, revenge and bravery. these plays are usually performed on stages. The stages are made into a scene to make the acting look believable and help set an image for the viewers sitting in the house. The house is where the audience sits during a play. The play has a plot and that plaot has main parts to it. The plot starts off with the exposition where the play introduces the main characters and the setting. After that comes the conflict and then the rising action that leads to the Climax. The Climax is where the most action and the main things happen in the play. After the Climax comes the falling actin and the resolution. This is where the problem starts to get fixed and where the ending of the play comes. The ending is either a happy ending or a sad one. This is what drama is in literature!...