Introduction to connections - The diary of Anne Frank

Questions:

 1. How does viewing this text through a child's perspective change the way we experience it? Explain using an example from the text. 

- They don't properly understand the world yet and have not yet formed opinions. They feel like they don't understand the 'dark side'  just yet. We feel sympathy for them. We need to think about how it affects them/ their overall worldview is changed by the smallest things.

2. How would this text be different if it were told from the perspective of an adult? How would the audience's experience be different?

- Adults know more about the were/are more informed, whereas Anne didn't understand that. Anne didn't like childlike perspective. Adult's perspective would have been more stressed.  Seeing from an adults perspective means we see more awareness, more need for survival. Adults perspective might be more sorrowful, hopeless

3. Why did the filmmaker or author decide to tell this story from a child's perspective?

- It shows how Anne felt & how they reacted - a different perspective. It is important to see things from a different perspective. Shows how different age groups react to different situations. Children matter! & Children are open-minded and therefore they can make changes in the future for good.

4. How are children represented in the text? How are adults represented in the text?

- Children -- loud, annoying, curious, selfish, gullible, naive

- Adults -- selfish, thieves, semi-educated, fighting, more serious

5. Does imagination help the young hero to cope? How so? Provide an example?

- Being friends, riding a bike, Solidarity with adults & In the dairy, she writes to a fictional character.

6. Does this text connect in any way to the other texts you have read/viewed? How so? Provide evidence and explain.

- Yes, it has connected to many texts, that we've read before especially ones that are based on a child's perspective. Which is normally creativity, naivety and innocence. Which is also how it connects back to Jojo Rabbit, as that is shown from a child's perspective. Jojo show's his naivety when he's been brought up around nazism, which is the dark reality of Germany. This contrasts to Anne's perspective of being afraid of the Nazi's influence and is fearful for her family and friends.