blog 5_B

I think the hardest part of being in the Annex would be the fear that you might get caught at any time. Having to worry every day at evey moment would be hard. Even if you want to be confident, you can't because the thought of, even making a little mistake could be the death of you. Not being able to do this because of the fear of being caught might make you think about the other kids. The other kids could do this without even fearing while you couldn't do things with fear. The 'things' is like being able to run around, make noise, go outside, and lots of other things.

blog 5_A

There should be no bolts and walls in someone's mind. Anyone should be able to think of what they want to think about without any abuse of complications. A mind should run freely and no one should even dare to obstruct them from doing so. The Jews were abused a lot and they weren't even able to think about what they wanted to think. An example is, when they thought that the new laws in treating jews were wrong, they would be taken away and put into labor camps.

Dramatic irony

There is Dramatic irony in this play because we already know what is going to happen. At the moment, she is scared and she doesn't know when she will get caught. We know how and exactly when she will get caught.The dramatic irony increases as the time when Anne Frank really gets caught. At the moment just before she gets caught, you know that she will get caught so you want to shout and give her a warning to jump out the window and escape of something.

the theme

At the moment, the play's theme is Anne Frank's loneliness in the secret annex. Anne Frank has no friends with her in the Annex and she doesn't have anyone to play with. Everyone in the annex, except for her, was an adult. She couldn't run around because it might create suspicion to the family next door. As a child, Anne Frank had to live in fear that someone could and might give them into the Nazis.

What did you already know about pejudice

the only thing i knew about Prejudice was, 'pride and prejudce' but i haven't read it yet or seen the movie.I asked this guy in my dorm and he told me that prejudice was what you think, or a theory. This thought or theory might not be true though. Prejudice occured when Hitler thought the Jews were the problem. Because Hitler thought this, he killed as many Jews as he could.

What do you already know about the Holocaust

I didn't learn anything about this... probably because i went to school England. I typed it on Wikipedia and found that it is the group of people in WWII who were Jewish.

character development

Yoko, the main character in the story changes a lot during her journey from North Korea to Japan and her life in hard conditions when her mother dies. In North Korea she wasn't very spoilt but her life is extremely spoilt compared to her life in Japan. We have evidence that she was spoilt when she refuses to share her blanket with the pregnant women on the train. After a few arguments with her mother, she finally shares it with her. I think this was her first step to being like the way she is in Japan. She goes on her journey where she starts to care about others more. She helps gather food on their journey and instead of eating it herself, she shares it with other food, this might not sound very hard to us because we have a lot of food but she had been starving for days. When she does arrive in Japan, her mother dies and she and her sister are put into a tight situation. They have to live on their own and KO can’t support both their lives. At Yoko’s age, I would probably just whine and refuse to do anything and stay depressed, but Yoko helps her sister a lot and she works hard to please her. This shows that she cared for her sister and not just her own laziness. An example is that when it was New Year’s Day, she bought lots of good quality food for a change to celebrate the festival; she didn’t have much money so she used the money that she was saving up to buy shoes. I think this is a great act of compassion because she was working really hard to buy those shoes. This also shows that she had sacrificed her own labor, gathering the money, and her own comfort, new shoes, for KO.