Monday, April 13, 2009
Monica's Connection #4
Throughout Diary of a Young Girl, Anne often mentions the steadfast fear plaguing the members of the annex, more so the children, forced into hiding. This compares to many criminals and citizens in trouble with the government, which is occurring more frequently because of the recession and hard economic times today. It also compares with the angst Kino and Juana felt during their flee from the white men, in John Steinbecks' The Pearl. I'm sure the adults of the annex felt more anxious in both stories, for they were fearing for not only their lives but the lives of their children. Unfortunately, in both books a child (or more) is lost, leaving one or more adults devastated by that loss. It seems that every book we have read this year, portrays someone in hiding or in the run.
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Oh, right. It would have been harder on the parents.
ReplyDeleteLike when we read Maus, there's a certain picture we talked about that portrayed that. The adults were shaded dark, while little Richieu stood out on the page, bright white and innocent. He had no idea what was going on.
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ReplyDeleteAfter reading Ali's comment, I agree that in Maus, Richieu did not have any idea. On the contrary the kids I beleive in the "Secret Annex" were not innocent, they too knew what was going on.
Wow...all the books we read this year have something to do with escaping/hiding, now that I think about it. In The Pearl and Fahrenheit 451, the main characters run away from people who are hunting them down. In Maus and The Diary of a Young Girl, the Jewish protagonists hide to avoid being detected by the Nazis.
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