Question Number Four

4) Answer one of the following questions (I'll just answer all three ^^;;):
a - Foreshadowing is the use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot. Why does Mr. Frank break down when he sees the glove?
>> My guess is that the glove is probably was the glove of his wife, or one of his two daughters. I know that Mrs. Frank, Anne Frank, and Margot Frank died before the war was over. By reading that Mr. Frank broke down and cried, we know that Mr. Frank found out about the deaths of his family and even the deaths of the other three who also hid in the secret annex. He must have been washed with all those happy memories with his family before the war and the fact that he isn't able to see his family ever again.
b - Ironly is a contrast between expectation and reality. What is ronic about these references to the outside world? pg. 384 - Mr. Frank. I think there's nothing the matter with our Anne that a ride on her bike or a visit with her friend Jopie de Waal wouldn't cure. Isn't that so, Anne? [Mr. Van Daan comes down into the room. From outside we hear faint sounds of bombers going over and a burst of ack-ack].
>> What is ironic in this part of the drama is that what Mr. Frank is saying, about Anne riding her bike with her friend, is something that can happen only when the war ends. It is when the Franks and other Jews don't have to go into hidings or suffer because of the Nazis. But then outside the secret annex, there are bombings, which makes the audiences realize that the war still is going on and that the Jews, including the Franks, do have to stay in hiding from the Nazis.
c - In dramatic irony the audience or reader knows something a character does not know. What do we know as we read Anne's diary that Anne does not know? How does the dramatic irony makes you feel?
>> I am not exactly sure what we know that the diary doesn't know. But I think it is the fact that everyone who hid in the Secret Annex died, except for Mr. Frank. Dramatic irony usually makes me feel impatient and sometimes even angry. I once even thought that the main character was stupid. I felt impatient and angry because I just wished that the character would find out about the fact and save him or herself. I thought that the character was stupid because he or she couldn't find out about that 'something' we all know.

Question Number Three

3. The theme of a work is not its subject or ropic, but rather what that subject means - what idea or insight it reveals about human existence - what is the author's message to the planet? Themes are revealed gradually as we learn about the characters and their predicament. Keep a LIVING post (once which you keep adding to every time you log on to your blog) about what you think the plays theme(s) is / are).
>> I think that the theme of the play is how prejudice isn't a good thing and how it can affect people. In this drama, the Franks, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel all went into hiding because of Hitler's prejudice to the Jews. They all had to hide in the Secret Annex for two years until they got caught. They also died after being sent to the concentration camp. And I think that there is one more theme: having hope. Throughout the whole drama, inside the Secret Annex, there was Anne, dancing, singing, and playing. There was Mr. Frank, who always gave hope and courage to the people. There was Mrs. Frank who gave love to everyone in the Annex. I think that was how the people were able to survive for two years. They had hope and happiness even when they were in hiding and in fear. They were able to survive in the Annex.

Question Number Two

2) What is prejudice? Where in the world have you seen prejudice? What are the effects of prejudice?
>>Prejudice is hating someone or somebody sometimes without an understandable or reasonable reason. I have seen a lot of prejudice in moveis, TVs, and even in fiction books, but I don't think that I have really seen much prejudice in real life... In books, I saw prejudice between the Germans and the Jews during the Holocaust, in movies, I saw prejudice between some white and black boys. I think that the effects of prejudice is hatred. Let's say that side A1 hates side B1. At first, prejudice is only caused by side A1. A1 is the only side that produces hatred, and B1 just stays quiet. But A1's hatred towards the other side would grow and things would get much more violent or dirty. It is similar to the Holocaust because the Nazis started to capture all the Jews and kill them. And that's when the other side also starts to hate. Things would get even worse as both sides hate each other. But that may not be the end of it. Their hatred between each other might also get other innocent sides to start to hate each other. If we look at the real prejudice that occured, the Holocaust, many people were killed, and many lost everything. Other than hatred, the effect of prejudice can also be the lost of loved ones and everything else. The conclusion is that the effects of prejudice is hatred and lost of everything.

Question Number One

1) What do you know already about the Holocaust?
>> I know that Holocaust is a mass killing of a certain race of people or certain species of animals. But most of the times, Holocaust means the mass killing of the Jews during the World War II, which many Jews were killed.