Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

This is a story of one of Anne’s friends, Hannah.

C. 2.Hannah and her family planned their destinies by getting foreign passports and the Mizrachi papers. They got them so that they wouldn’t be taken away as soon as the other Jews. This allowed them to be at home for just a little while longer. They also helped Hannah and her sister to stay at the orphanage longer. Another way that Hannah planned her destiny is that she went outside to clean the toilets at her orphanage. This allowed her to see her father and talk to him. Hannah also planned her destiny by leaving her little sister with another woman. She couldn’t take care of her sister, so she let someone else do it for her. If she would have tried to take care of her, her little sister would probably die. Ways that outside forces helped Hannah and her family is that luck helped them not go to Auschwitz. They were sent to a different camp that let them keep their own belongings and they didn’t get killed. Hannah survived the Holocaust, which I think is pure luck. She wasn’t killed and she turned out fine.

D. If I could talk to Hannah, I would ask her about her life after she was let out of the concentration camp.  Was she healthy when they were let go? What happened to her little sister? How did she live without parents? I would want to know how bad it felt to lose friends and family. I would want to know most about how the experience has changed her life. Was she emotionally scarred? Did she ever think about how good it is to be alive? I would really like to ask these questions to Hannah, but I would ask them to any Holocaust survivor.

All But My Life

This is a story of a girl named Gerda who goes marching.

C. 2. I think that Gerda survived the march because she knew that she was going to make it out. She had a very strong will. She told her friends that they were going to make it and be free all the time. It gave her the strength to go on and she made it. I also think that Gerda made it because she had a good pair of shoes. She had ski boots, which are fantastic for walking in snow. She also had pictures in her boots of her family, which would probably be comforting. She could look at the pictures and think about how proud her family would be of her if she just kept moving. Gerda also made it out because she was a smart girl. She knew that she wasn’t going to get a lot to eat, so she split her bread intelligently and made it last. She’s an inspiration.

D. If I was suddenly uprooted, I would grab my iPod. I cannot live without it. My life revolves around music; it’s the most important thing to me. I listen to music from the second I wake up to the moment I fall asleep. I would need my iPod because it has all my favorite songs and songs that are important to me. There are songs that I listen to when I am happy, when I’m upset and other songs just because I need something else that day. I would die without my iPod because I simply need music.

If I couldn’t grab my iPod, I would grab pictures. Pictures are important to me because they remind me of how it was in the past and they bring back good memories. Just like in the story, I would grab pictures of my family, but I would also grab pictures of my pets and my friends. These would help me remember my life before this whole mess and think about how good it will feel after it’s all over. The pictures would also be comforting and give me strength to go on. I would think of how happy my family would be to see me and how good it would be to just see them again.

Diary From Another World

This story is a explanation of Anne Frank’s diary.

C. 1. Anne Frank was an ordinary young girl in many ways.  She had arguments with her sister and disagreed with her parents decisions sometimes. She lined her bedroom walls with pictures of movie stars and famous people. I think she did this because she looked up to them and maybe wanted to be like them. She was a typical young girl because she was bright and exciting and just wanted to have fun, and that’s what life’s about when you’re young. She thought about running around and playing outside like kids do. She had dreams of becoming a singer or a painter. She didn’t want to be a housewife or just a normal kind of woman. She wanted to be inspiring and she wanted to be known in the world. She was a fun-loving person and simply a kid at heart.

D. If I had to stay in a two room apartment for a year or more, I would miss my friends. I would miss them because they’re my friends and they understand me and we have a good time together. I would be stuck in a tiny place with my family for months, and even though they’re my family and I love them, I need my friends too. Sometimes there are things that I can only talk to my friends about, and they make me feel better. I would miss laughing with my friends and just having a good time. All the little jokes and stupid moments we have mean a lot to me. My friends are what I would need most if I was stuck in a tiny apartment for that long.