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Comenius Project: The Diary of A Young Girl
Comenius Project: The Diary of A Young Girl
Comenius Project: The Diary of A Young Girl
Itziar Badenas
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Index
- Introduction: page 3
- Study of the country and the city where the history happens: page 9 -12
- Conclusion: page 17
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- Bibliography: page 18
Introduction
In these power point you can find information of the book The diary of a young girl of
Anne Frank.
The time where the book happens.
How the people had to live in the time where the book happens.
The country and the city where the book happens.
The culture of the Frank family.
A little personal opinion of one chapter of the book.
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Literally analysis of the book
The book have a writing stile of a diary, wrote in first
person and a understandable vocabulary.
The time of the book is lineal, all the facts are tidied,
one after the other one. The explanation never have
flash-backs, never explains things that happened
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before the present time.
Cultural analysis of the book
The main character is a girl of 13
years old. Her family and her are
Jews, concretely practitioner Jews.
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Historical context
The main causes of the second world war were
the consequences of the first world war.
The resentment of Italy and Germany from the first
world war, provoked the apparition of two new
ideologies the Nazism and the Fascism. Both of
them wanted the same, the dictatorship and the
control of all the other countries.
Another consequence was the felt of the world
economy, on the 19th of October 1920.
The anguish of conquest of Germany provoked on
the 1st of September 1939 the occupation of Poland
and whit it the start of the second world war.
Germany provoked the holocaust, the
extermination of the Jews was one of their
objectives.
The German, the Italian and Japan, conquered A.Hitler and B. Mussolini leaders of the Nazi and Fascist party.
most of the central Europe and some countries in
the rest of the world. Into the Europe countries
stayed Holland, where the book happens.
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Social context
In the second world war people lived in extremely poverty, with
starvation, whit illnesses, with the pain and the sadness of the war
every day in their heads.
To get some food, people had a ration chart. It was like a passport with
their personal dates and the quantity of food that they could take. Meat
was the first thing that governments rationed.
Governments used the radios and the cinema to do publicity. The films Trench shelter
were about war an spies. The radio programs were the fastest way to
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informer and do publicity to the people.
Study of the country and the
city where the history happens
Mills in Holland
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Study of the country
Holland have a superficies of 40.000 km2, where 7800km2 are interior
water. Holland stay under the see level, the lowest point is of 6,5 m in the
area of Rotterdam. The country is protected by a natural red of dunes and
artificial dicks.
The official name of Holland is Kingdom of Nederland, the capital city is
Amsterdam, but the government is in Hagen. The kingdom of Nederland
is a parliamentary monarchy.
The main economy of Holland is the chemical industry, and the
exploitation of the gas ore deposits. Rotterdam have the most important
harbour in Holland. But now the truism is the most important economical
activity.
Holland have 16 million of people. Holland is one of the European
countries whit more population concentration, and have so many
immigrants. The 45% of the Holland population lives in for main cities:
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hagen and Utrecht.
The Hollanders are in general nice, tidy and harboured people, because
they had lived all their history whit foreign people of so many places. Mill and tulips in Holland
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Personal opinion of one passage of the book
The passage that i have choose is the one of Friday, 9 October 1942,
where Anne explains that the Gestapo was taking a lot of their Jew
friends to Westerbork one concentration camp situated in Drenthe and
they was taking them in cattle-trucks.
She explains the conditions of the concentration camp, where the
food an the water were shorts, how the people had to sleep, how they
looked like...
My opinion is that Anne, reflects really good the suffering of the people
into the concentration camps, she explains really good the events that
happened, Miep words... She wrote her own questions of the way that
the Germans killed the Jews, by gas.
The suffering, the cruelty of the Christian people, the impotency in front
of the injustices made to the Jews, all is perfectly explained in these
chapter of the book.
The Germans destroyed the life of the Jew people, of the Christian
people and of their own people too.
The war explained by Anne, a girl of 14 years old, is more real and is
explained like it happened. Because the children eyes, are the best 16
way to see the things, without changes.
Conclusion
The Diary of a young girl is a perfect way to know the second world
war and the conditions where so many people had to live.
The way that the Jews had been treated by the world population in the
last century. Their suffering, their customs, how difficult is to live whit
other people, that you don’t know in a small place and whiteout go out
of there, with a really little food, whit a sanitary conditions really poor.
All what the war take with it, the poverty, the starvation, the suffering.
The big tragedy of the Holocaust is wrote in a diary of a child, a
miserable diary that have shown us the truth.
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Bibliography
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