The document provides background information and a timeline about Anne Frank and her family. It summarizes that the Frank family went into hiding in 1942 in the "secret annex" in Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution. It describes some of the conflicts Anne faced while in hiding, such as clashes with her mother and feelings of fear and isolation. The climax is when the Nazis arrive and arrest the Franks in 1944.

1. SARVEPALLI
RADHAKRISHNAN SCHOOL

2. The Diary of
Tracie Alo
May 24, 2007

3. Timeline: Before
 June 12, 1929 Annelies Marie Frank is
born in Frankfurt, Germany.
 1933 Frank family moves to Amsterdam,
Holland, when Hitler comes to power in
Germany.
 June 12, 1942 Anne receives a diary for her
thirteenth birthday.
 July, 1942 Margot Frank gets a call to
report to a transit camp.
 July 6, 1942 The Frank family moves into
the 'secret annex‘.

4. Anne
and
M
argot
Frank
in
1932

5. The Frank family in 1940

6. The hinged
bookshelf that
hid the Frank
family in the
Annex

7. The helpers, from left to
right:
Mr. Kleiman, Miep Gies,
Bep
Voskuijl, and Mr. Kugler

8. This is one of the last pictures
taken of Anne and her sister before
they went into hiding

9. “Up to now our bedroom, with its blank walls,
was very bare. Thanks to Father– who brought
my entire postcard and movie star collection
here beforehand– and to a brush and pot of
glue, I was able to plaster the wall with
pictures. It looks much more cheerful.”

10. Timeline: After
 Aug 4, 1944 The Franks are arrested, taken to
a police station, the to Westerbork, a transit
camp in Holland.
 Oct 30, 1944 Anne and her sister, Margot, are
sent to Bergen-Belsen.
 Jan 6, 1945 Edith Frank dies of starvation in
Auschwitz.
 Jan 7, 1945 Auschwitz is liberated. Otto Frank
is the only survivor from the annex.
 March 1945 Margot dies of typhus in Bergen-
Belsen.


11. Literary Analysis
 Plot: Sequence of related events that make
up a story
 Conflict (Internal/External)
 Flashback
 Exposition
 Rising Action
 Resolution
 Climax

12. Conflict
A struggle between opposing forces
 External Conflict: A character struggles
against another person or outside force
 Based on the difficult situation in which they
are living
 Anne and her mother, Edith, struggle with
Anne’s growing up and wanting to be treated
older than her mother treats her

13. Conflict
A struggle between
opposing forces
 Internal Conflict: A struggle within a
person or character
 Anne puts up a hard exterior as a defense
 She is afraid people won’t respect her if
they see the real Anne
 She writes her true feelings in her diary

14. Flashback
Presenting facts that took
place at an earlier time
 The playwright uses flashback to set the
stage for the events to follow.
 Otto Frank enters the secret annex after the war
and begins to read Anne’s diary aloud.
 Anne’s voice overlaps with his as she begins to
tell the story through her diary.

15. Exposition
Sets the tone, establishes setting, introduces characters,
and give background information
 The narrator gives information to set the
stage for the readers
 In play form, much of this information is
presented through sets, costuming and
stage directions
 The exposition is an important part of all
literature to draw the reader into the story

16. Rising Action
The events in a story that move the plot
forward
 Anne begins to realize hiding
is more difficult than she
originally thought
 She is in constant fear during
the night, jumping at every
sound, afraid the Nazi’s are
coming for her
 Anne’s personality clashes with
the others in hiding, especially
with her mother and Peter
 The tension with all
inhabitants is escalating,
causing various problems

17. Climax
The turning point of the story
 The climax usually occurs
toward the end of the
story, after the reader has
become emotionally
involved with the
characters
 The arrival of the Nazis to
the ‘secret annex’ marks the
climax of the story
 All the tension that has
built throughout the plot
reaches its peak and ends

18. Resolution
Conflicts are resolved by
the end of the story
 Throughout the story, a number of minor
conflicts are resolved while in the ‘secret
annex’
 Anne and Peter begin to become friends
 Anne’s relationship with her mother becomes
better
 Everyone is so happy about the end of the war,
they forget their grudges against each other
 Mr. Frank’s final speech resolves the

19. How Did It Happen?
 German military attacked The Netherlands
 Identification of Dutch Jews with yellow
stars and laws discriminating against
them
 In 1942 the Germans began sending them
to concentration camps
 Of the 140,000 Jews living there, 102,000
were exterminated by the Nazis

20. What Did You Learn?
1. Why did the Frank family go into
hiding?
2. What is external conflict? Give an
example from the story.
3. What is internal conflict? Give an
example from the story.
4. Give an example of rising action from the
story.
5. What is the climax of the story?

21. Historical
Facts
 World War II lasted about six years.
 Over 6,000,000 Jews were killed by the
Nazis in the concentration and death
camps during the Holocaust! This was
established by the Nuremberg tribunal in
1946.
 Some people believe the Holocaust did not
happen.
 Others believe Anne Frank did not write her

22. THANKS
Shubham
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