Anne's Diary Questions pg 832

1. The families must obey strict rules to avoid discovery. Which rules will be hardest for you to follow? Why? The rule that will be hardest for me to follow will be to be quiet for 11 hours, since they had to make no noise for almost 11 hours so they won't discover them. I think this will be the hardest one for me to keep because when I'm with my family I will be the most loudest one, and just won't stop talking.

2. (a.) In Scene 1, what objects does Mr. Frank find in the secret rooms? The objects that Mr. Frank finds in the secret rooms were a white glove and a scarf, that belonged to Anne and even her diary which Miep gives him.

(b.) How are these objects connected with the rest of the act? These objects are connected with the rest of the act because later on they are used in the act, the glove was part of Anne's dressing in which she used in an occasion, and the Diary was the object that lead us to the act and story of her.

3. (a.) What special meaning does Hanukkah have for the families? The special meaning that Hanukkah has for the families is because it is a Jewish celebration, celebrating re dedication of the holy temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century before Christ E.


(b.) What do Anne's presents show about her? Anne's presents show that she really cares about her holidays and that she will always keep the traditions no matter what. It also shows that she is not selfish and that she gives everyone a present no matter if she don't like them. For example she gave one to Peter, even though she didn't like him.


(c.) Why do the others act with enthusiasm to their presents? The others act with enthusiasm to their presents because they never thought they will get something that year since they had to be hidden they weren't allow to go outside to buy presents, they were amuse when they saw Anne had presents for them. They also acted with enthusiasm because Anne gave almost all of them what they needed, liked or wanted.

4. "There are no locks that anyone can put on your mind." How does Anne prove that is true?
Anne approves that this statement is true by not listening to others opinion, because even thought the Nazis, Germans and all these people involve in the holocaust made Jews suffer and treated them like garbage she still thought that people were nice and had a nice part and heart on them. Anne didn't care about what other people thought and nobody really changed her mind on how she thought about people, nobody couldn't change her mind and lock it there.

5. What is the historical cause that forces the Franks to go into hiding? The historical cause that forces the Franks to go into hiding is when they emigrated to Holland and Hitler takes power over the land. The Franks were Jewish, and things got worse for Jews, they will kill every single Jew they find and send them to camps were they will be locked up and die, the Franks didn't want to go through this suffering that they decided to take the risk to go into hiding.

(b.) What effects does this situation have on their daily lives? The affect that this situation has on their daily lives is the hope that one day they will be free and thinking every single day how they are risking their lives and in what danger they are when the Nazis find them in hiding.

6. In scene 2, Anne and Peter discuss the stars of David on their clothes.
(a.) What affects do the Nazis intend the wearing of the stars to have on the Jews? The wearing of the star was a way the Nazis recognize who was Jewish and who wasn't, the Nazis will treat anyone who wore that bad because they'd didn't like Jewish people, and also maybe it was symbol the German made them wear to show them that it was their property.

(b.) What background information about the war and the Nazis' treatment of the Jews helps you to link this cause with its intended effects? It helps me link this cause with its intended effect because the Jewish weren't treated fairly and it wasn't fair for them to go hungry and in hiding just because of their race.

7. Reveals Character and Relationship

Anne - Anne gives a present to everyone even thought if she didn't like them. For example she gives one to Peter and she really didn't like him. When Mr. Dussel was going to move in, Anne was willing to give her room up so he could sleep there. This shows that Anne has a good relation ship with everyone and is not a selfish person.
Advances the action of the plot
When the Franks, the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel hear a noise downstairs and know a thief is robbing the house and they make noise accidentally they loose their hope because now someone knows that they are hiding up there.
Develops the conflict
When the thief tricks on them and a a car pulls down the street one day and men voices are heard all over the house they know that they have found them. They give them five minutes to get their stuff and Peter gives Anne a kiss saying goodbye.

8. After Mr. Kraler asks if Jan Dussel can join the Franks and the Van Daans in hiding, what does the dialogue among the characters reveal about their personalities?
The Dialogue reveals that the Van Daans were selfish because they didn't want Mr. Dussel to move in because the food wouldn't be enough and that shows that they only care about themselves and not other persons. The Franks reveal that they really care because they approved Mr. Dussel move in.

50 Things I Learn About the Holocaust

1. The Nazis came to power in Germany on 1933, they thought that Germans were "racially superior", and that Jews weren't worth it, they wanted to get rid of all "inferior races".

2. Adolf Hitler is appointed to Germany which had a population of 566,00 Jewish people.

3. The Nazis burn the Reichstag building, which is the German government building to create crisis atmosphere.

4. On 1934, Hitler passed laws that didn't allow Jews to have freedom, later on August 19, 1934 he got 90% of germans vote to approve his new powers.

5. Hitler was the one who started everything, he was like the boss who gave the orders to Germany people, the guilty one.

6. Hitler wanted to kill everyone that was different from them, he wanted to make the world perfect, but only succeeded in killing millions.

7. Hitler was also part Jewish, and he was killing people of his own.

8. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889.

9. After the beginning of World War II in 1933 the Jews were taken away from their homes and sent to ghettoes and concentration camps.

10. After the war, the camps were turned into memorial and museums.

11. Germans didn't only kill jews but also other people that were different from them. For example, they killed religious people like Jehova's Witnesses, homosexuals, Gypsies, poles Russians and others.

12. In 1933 the Jewish population was over nine million people.

13. After the war only one-third of jewish people were left, that means two-thirds were killed.

14. Today if they find out someone who was part of this Holocaust they will automatically send them to jail.

15. Jews and other different people different from the germans were killed and died of starvations, persecutions, maltreatment, and bunch of other violence the Germans did to them.

16. When the war ended the few of the Jews that survived emigrated to the United States, Israel, and other nations.

17. Germans killed millions of children, especially Jews. They also killed gypsies children, and german children that were mentally ill, handicapped, and physically bad.

18. Hitler's reason for killing handicapped children was because they consider them "unworthy of life".

19. Children wer killed and maltretaed in different ways. For example children were killed when they arrived in killing centers, and children were also killed after their birth or in instiitutions.

20. Sometimes children in concentration, and ghetto camps will survived because prisoners will hid them.

21. Children were used for medical experiments when they were killed.

22. 1.5 children were killed.

23. Catholic priests and nuns were also Nazi's target.

24. Hans Frank, the Nazi governor said that they don't ask nothing from the jews, that the only ting they asked is for them to dissapear.

25. On November 15, 1940, Nazis sealed jews in homes with big walls, and there they would treat them bad and Jews couldn't go outside or they got shot because they couldn't have contact with the outside world.

26. His sister was mentally reatarded and she and Hitler had a really close realationship.

27. There are some people that believe that the holocaust never existed.

28. There were different kinds of camps- Ghettos, concentration camps, forced labor camps, and extirmination camps.

29. “Holocaust” is derived from the Greek words “completely burnt”.

30. The first victims of the Holocaust were people with disabilities

31. There were about 5 million non-Jewish victims which means 5 million people were not Jews but other race that were violated.

32. Germans created ghettos to segregate jews from the nazis, and they lived under bad conditions.

33. The largest ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw Ghetto, where over 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles.

34. Adolf Hitler was doing well in school, but at the age of 16 he quit to go to school.

35. The Nazi's were people who were strongly anti-communist, antisemitic, racist, nationalistic, imperialistic, militaristic.

36. They would gas people in a van.

37. Pregnant women were claimed not able to work, so they kill them or get abortions.

38. Women were raped and abuse in camps.

39. They wore a jacket called the julian noga prisoners jacket.

40. The Germans made Jews work in plants and factories with out getting pay.

41. The Einsatzgruppen killed men, women and children and then they burn them in mass graves.

42. Hitler decide to commit suicide because he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in hate and in jail.

43. Girls were dressed as guys and had to look like guys when they went to concentration camps.

44. Germans found new ways on killing alot of people at once, they used poison gases or bombs.

45. Jewish kids that went to school with germans had to stand in front of the class, and they will get insulted.

46. Jewish people wouldn't commit suicide because it was aginst their religion.

47. Jewish and Germans had different stars symbol, the Jewish star had 6 points and the Germans had a 5 point star.

48. Just a few people in camps survived to tell their stories.

49. Genozide still happens now days, But The Nazi holocaust as the worsest.

50. When the war ended in 1945 jewish and victims came out to be really skinny and had critic health problems.

IF you had to blame someone or something for the outcasts deaths who/what would you blame and why?
-Uncle Billy
-citizens of Poker Flat
-bad luck
-outcasts

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If I had to blame someone for the outcasts deaths I would blame the outcasts themselves. I would blame the outcasts themselves because they were the ones who made their own decisions to become who they were. If it wasn't because of them and who they turn out to be, they would of never been kicked out of Poker Flat. I think its their own fault because they decided to be robbers, prostitutes, or whatever bad things they were because they wanted to, even though they knew that consequences will soon come. When their bad luck came it was all because they deserve it and now they had to go through it. This is why I blame the Outcasts themselves for their death.

Desiree's Baby

He re-read the letter over and over again. "No it can't be true!" He cried. He looked around to see if somebody was looking "I can't be black!!" he whispered in a loud voice making sure no one listened. Unfornutally that didn't help at all. He wish he was death, he didn't have a right to live, he was black and that meant he wasn't worth it. "How could this be! Why mother?"

Armand left the fire on and just went into his house and started to cry. He thought about everything "I shouldn't let her go. Desiree come back, I need you!" He thought about it and rushed outside to look for Desiree, it was too late she had already left. He wanted to apoligize, he wanted to go to Valmode and bring Desiree back with his son, but he couldn't present himself this way. He had to get over this first and will then go and bring the women he mostly loved back. He didn't know what to do, what was he going to tell Desiree, Will Desiree accept him the way he is or will she just leave and feel sorry for him. All these thoughts just made Armand loose his strenght to go see Desiree.

He looked outside the window, and saw how his slaves worked hard. He felt embarrass of who he really was. He was one of them, he had the black blood inside him, he had slavery inside him. He should be one of them, and t just made him fell sorry for all of them. He just wanted to die. He went to the mirror and looked at himself. "..my skin is fair. Look at my hand; its whiter than yours." Desiree's words repeated in his head. He was ashame for blaming her when it really was him. He looked once again in the mirror and just couldn't hadle imagining himself as a black person. He started to punch the mirror and just broke it.

He spent days without eating, and just wouldn't do nothing. One day he ended up in the hospital, and everybody knew about it, but they didn't know why he was going through this big depression, he wouldn't tell no one.

Flowers for Algernon

If I was given the chance to take an operation to get much smarter I won't do it because it will be too risky and not worth it. I won't do this because if you have this you will only value it for a while, you will fall in love with your skills you have, and suddenly they will all be taken away from you because you know its temporary. I also won't do it because you never know what will happpen, its an experiment an you just won't know if it will function or just do nothing. I think it will only be a waste of time. I also won't want to be really smart because that way you can loose some friends because they will get annoyed with you. For Example when Charlie became smart and people realized it, they got jelous and didn't talk to him anymore, but when he came back to work in the factory as himself his friends that once use to be the persons who made fun of him were defending him from the person who took advantage of him. Anyways I'm happy that atleast I know how to read and write, and thats just important and I don't think its that neccessary to be really smart.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Explain what this story says about each of these issues:-FAMILY-AGE-BEAUTY. Use examples from the story to support your explanations for each.


Family was a big issue in the book of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I think that in this story the word Family didn't have a meaning. As you read in the book you see that there is no respect love and support in the Buttons Family, they never socialize as a family. This shows that they really don't care about the family, and don't know what it means. For example as you read in the story you can see that Benjamin didn't get respect for who he was, nobody loved him that way he was, and he had no support. Sometimes people will make fun of him when he will say that he was a newborn baby, when he wants to go to college thay don't accept him because he is to old, when he goes to the colonel thay don't accept because he is too young whe he really is old. His parents can't accept him the way he is until they get use to him so it means they really didn't love him, Benjamin's son hates the benjamin is and looks at him as a weirdo. Benjamin doesn't have any support and has to go through everything alone, the critizes and the problems. As you can see when Benjamin has his own family, he don't know what a family is because later he don't love his wife but feels embarass of her because she is to old when he looks young, His son doesn't want to hang out with him because he looks to old to be Benjamin's son.



Age is another big issue in this Story. Age is a really weird action for Benjamin, and a really uncommon thing. Each time he is one year old he gets younger instead of getting older. Age is backwards here, he born as an old man and gets younger as time passes, and he knows one day he will be a baby and everything will turn dark. You could see age is a really important thing, age is required for everything. You can't go to college if your too old because when Benjamin goes to college when he is 18 they don't accept because he looks to old and doesn't look like 18. When he goes to the colonel to get his position he don't get accepted because he looks to young when he really is old enough to take the position. In this story you could also see that in love there is no age a young women could marry an old man, or a young man can marry an old women, but the most important thing is to love each other and not be enbarrass with who you are.



Beauty is another issue in The Case of Benjamin Button. In this story they will make Benjamin look ugly throughout his life. When he was newborn they wouldn't like him because he looked to old and when he was an older person his son wouldn't accept him because he looke to young to be his father. Benjamin and his relatives will always have to worry for him to look the right way. Benjamin couldn't help it, so he just let it on.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Chapter3-7

After reading chapters 3-7, predict three problems you think Benjamin will encounter and give your solution for each.



Three problems I predict Benjamin will encounter

1. Will be that suddenly he will divorce his wife because she is getting older and he is getting younger. A solution for this will be to tell her wife the truth because he won't want to hurt her or cheat on her, I think it will be better to divorce her. 2. He will suddenly be a real new born baby, and it would be like if he had died. A solution for this problem will be to get a plan ready on what he's gonna have to do when this happens because he's going to leave everything behind even his son. He is going to loose all his knowledge and skills he once use to have. 3. He would be a kid when his son is a man. The best solution for this is to tell his son the thruth since he is becoming younger when his son is getting older, one day Benjamin will loose his skill and the best thing to do is teach him everything he knows before it is too late, that way he would be a good father for him.