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How Does Hackett Show Hope At Times

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Hopefulness can come in many directions, whether it is from good or bad times. This is one of the proponents in what the playwrights, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, set out in the play The Diary of Anne Frank, which shows a girl’s immense hope while in hiding. Even when dark times went into play, the main character, Anne Frank, and the other characters in the play had a huge amount of hope, even when they were in fear of being caught and sent to concentration camps by the Nazis. In all, hope, even in dark times, is an extreme factor in what the playwrights want the reader to see in the play. To start, there are many occurrences in Act I of the play that exhibit hope at times that are at its lowest. When the members of the secret annex …show more content…

They tried their best to keep still until the thief left, and some people thought that the Green Police (Nazis) had found out about their location. To end, Act I creates anticipation for good things while they are in such a bad situation. In addition, it is not just Act I, but Act II also conveys the idea of tranquility in terrible times. One of the first instances is when Miep brings the annex members a cake, celebrating the New Year, and it has a message written on the cake, and Mrs. Van Daan notices that: “Don’t you remember, you gave us one on New Year’s Day? Just this time last year? I’ll never forget it because you had ‘Peace in Nineteen Forty-three’ on it. [She looks at the cake and reads] 'Peace in nineteen forty-four!’” (346). Since another year had passed because of World War II, and there was no stopping, they all believed that there would be peace in 1944. Another instance where one of the family members thinks that peace and hope will get to them is when Anne writes in her diary, getting news from the war: “The Americans have landed on the southern tip of Italy. Father looks for a quick finish to the war” (353). Since Italy is one of the enemies of the war, Mr. Frank expects that the best is

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