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.