#5 Holocaust Posting (B)

Act I, Scenes 1-3: What do you think would be the hardest part of life in the Secret Annex: the fear of discovery, the need to keep silent for hours at a time, the sharing of cramped quarters with strangers, or some other aspect? Explain.

I think the hardest part of being in the secret Annex was the separation from the rest of the world. I couldn't imagine a life without friends isolated from the rest of the world being with only elderly boy and sister. Being silent is something I can deal with. Stay up and live at night and sleep from morning till the workers go home, which could solve the problem of being quiet as well as much of the fear of discovery because the Green Police would most likely not come at night. Being cramped is something very hard to deal with but it is something that you can get used to, and privacy is the least of your problems. But having to live without friends would have been a torture, and also for teenagers being stuck with their parents might also prove to be torture as well. We can see that it was hard for Anne in the way that she wrote imaginary letters as well as starting the diary, not only to kill time, but to have someone to share the deepest descrets and talk to people.