Theme Anne Frank

I think the theme of this play is how Anne's character changes after being in the holocaust and having a really strange environment. First of all she isn't used to not going to the bathroom from the morning to mid-day, and she has to be very quiet and can't be too loud as usual. Because of these limitations, Anne goes through an internal conflict. She accidentally spills milk on Mrs. Van Daan's fur coat, and her parents discipline her but at that time Anne gets angry by saying why MArgot is always right and she is always wrong. She develops jealousy of her sister and has a strong conflict with her mother.

Prejudice

Prejudice is something I have known since 5th grade, from social studies class, when were learning about the Irish people moving into America. The Irish were discriminated by the Americans, because the Americans thought that they didn't fit in or they were totally a whole different group because of their religion and they were from a different country. They were pre-judging them by just looking at what they were, maybe the religion wasn't but still they didn't really get to know them and as soon as they saw them they didn't like them. The word Prejudice came from the word Pre-jugding, thats what I read in a book called "The 7habits of highly affective teenagers." After that I continuosly learned about prejudice even in my health class in sixth grade. Prejudice usually is always a negative case, because even when you judge people by how they look. People could pre-judge you by saying you're a really good basketball player by just making one shot in, and actually you're not even close to good. So it is always good to judge people when you're are really confident that you believe of that person is true. That's why there have been racism during the mid 1900's, black people have been discriminated just because of their color, and Jews in the holocaust were pre-judged by the Nazi's just because of what they thought of them was wrong, but they weren't really sure of that mostly they didn't care there wasn't a good reason of killing them. Now a days prejudice has reduced to a minimum but still there are little issues behind the scenes like when you go to a new school and they make fun of how you look or what you do.

holocaust

Holocaust
What I know of the holocaust currently is that Jewish people were very conscious of the Nazi's breaking into their houses and sending them to the concentration camps. Because of this kind of experience Jewish people went into secret houses owned by other people, this was called the secret annex. Also this was during World War I. Germany was in a war with the whole world and conquered most of Europe, so even though Jewish reugees eluded to other countries they would most probably still be caught as well as they could in Germany. In the holocaust their was a policy where the Germans had to believe what ever the Government said, especially the status in the World War. Because of this no one was aloud to have a radio because the radio had English broadcasting which actually told the truth than actually positive news to the Germans. This pretty much all I know about the Holocaust, and I hope to know more in the future.

Red scarf girl (setting)

In the story "Red scarf girl" Ji-li is very cautious and very sensitive to her environment after she finds out she is included in the black category, which is the class status that was bourgeious and totally contrary to Chairman Mao's teachings and laws. But however because a conflict between her and the environment shes surrounded with it also affects her in where she is; the setting. For an example Ji-li is not safe in her own house because of her grandfather's political status influences, she has a lot of insecure issues. in page 132 it says "At first we could not hear much. Then we heard more: doors slamming, a cry from Hua-hua, crash after crash of dishes breaking overhead, and the indistinct voices of the Red Guards." This quote explains that Ji-Li is not in a safe environment. An even more relevant example is almost to the end of the book on page 253 the content a character called thin face slaps Ji-li's grandma on the face. Now this is one
setting another setting is in her school. At her primary school she wasn't very happy because every student new that she was in a bad political status, and all of them criticized her for that. But then when she moved into junior high school everything changed her self esteem rose up because none of the students really new her background, it was a fresh new start. The school and her house are the two main settings that influence her.

Red scarf girl (Theme)

The theme in the story "Red scarf girl" is about how China changes over time, and how the changes in the country affects the people. For example in the beginning of the story people try to break down shops and other buildings that express the four olds, which are old customs that need to be destroyed and made different. But I think it is too strict because no one could have alot of glamorous clothes, jewelry or other things that could be considered as a fourold. That is why victoms argue alot of about this issue. They get caught by the red guards who check people's houses making sure that they don't have any material that represent fourolds, and even if you where something thats a little tight they consider it as a fourold. Most of these ideas come from the citizens, I think that Chairman Mao just said you should go by new customs, but the people made it even more strict by thinking that tight clothes are apart of fourolds, or saying certain old words are fourolds. This law has influenced alot of chinese people and in my opinion I don't think it is a very good thing at all.

Red scarf girl (characterization)

In the story "Red scarf girl" the main character Ji-Li Jiang has a very strict comittment to abide by the rules of Chairman Mao which affects her feelings to her friends, family, and herself. An example is when Song Po Po leaves she says that it is a good thing that she is leaving because it isn't exploiting her, if I were her I would be really sad and wouldn't event think of the four olds. And because of the four olds she becomes angry with herself, when Ji-Li couldn't be a re successor it was because her grandfather was a landlord that made an internal conflict with herself because her friends started to not like her and she becomes very depressed.

My secret

When I was a young boy in fourth grade I had to keep a secret between me and my mom. The secret was that she was Ms. Korea and I couldn't tell any on of my friends. I said to my mom "No Problem mom" But later on when I went to school i got tempted to tell my friends and show off how honoroble my mom was. I tried not to but I just coudn't so I had told one of my best friends who luckily didn't tell anyone. And that was the last year I was going to be in the school called AES.