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.