Hey, Alex here. I am here to start off our final blogpost, which will be a group one. The story behind it is after finally finishing the book, we watched the movie that aired on PBS in 2009. I honestly thought that it was better than the book, especially the end, but that isn’t important right now. Anyways, we kept track of similarities and differences between the two on a sheet of paper. After finishing the movie, the teachers asked us to blog about it, and here I am now. We are each doing a certain element of the story, like plot, setting, etc. Anyways, I’m going to be going back through my notes, and I will be back later.
Hey! Its Skyler and my group has one final blog post, but it is different because it is not individually, it is all together. So for this last post we have finished the book and the movie, we now have to explain the differences and similarities by comparing the two. Some things that we will be comparing is setting, characters, perspective, and the plot of each. Throughout the book there was one main setting that housed individuals such as Anne and her family, which was the Secret Annex. The annex has held Anne’s family for many years in each the movie and the book and it helps shape the personalities of the people. Throughout the book the reader only gets to see how Anne and her family lived in the annex but really there was the life she lived up till she went to the annex. Such as in the movie it shows the house she lived in and what she was like before she moved but in the book you don’t get to see that many perspectives from their life outside of the annex. Overall the setting was mostly the same in both but in the movie you get to see the life she lived before the annex because I feel like that was a huge deal for her to make that shift and it also shifted her perspective/personalities toward life.
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| This scene takes place shortly after Dussel arrives at the Annex |
I’m back! In case you didn’t read the intro, this is Alex, and I am going to be talking about the similarities and differences between the characters in the book and in the movie. While watching the movie, we compiled a list of characters that were in the movie, and then we went back and looked up ones in the book. I’m not going to include the Franks, Van Daans, or Dussel in this, because they are in both the movie and book, and without even just one of those, it would be a completely different story. For the book, we have Mr. Kraler, Mr. Koophuis, Meip, and Elli. For the movie, we got Miep, Mr. Kugler, and Mr. Kleiman. There’s obviously a few people missing in the movie that were in book, like Mr. Kraler, Mr. Koophuis, and Elli. In the movie, Miep seemed to take the role of Elli along with her own, as Elli brought the books to the Franks in the book, but Miep brought them in the movie. Elli also seemed to do most of the protecting and hiding in the book, but Meip did that in the movie. Mr. Kugler and Kleiman seemed to take the place of Mr. Kraler and Koophuis in the movie. Another thing I noticed is that Mummy and Mrs. Van Daan and the other characters aren’t as villainous as Anne paints them out to be. For example, in the book, Anne makes it sound like she and Mum are constantly fighting because Mummy has nothing else to do, but in the movie, we see that Mum is constantly a nervous wreck, and only tries to tell her what to do to try and protect her. Anne makes Mrs. Van Daan sound like a hypocritical jerk who tries to fix other people’s kids. But in the movie, we see that she still tries to correct others’ kids, but she seems like such a jerk because her husband kinda abuses her. So that is a few things that I noticed about similarities and differences between the characters between the book and movie, and now Tyler’s up with differences in perspective.
It’s Tyler here. I am here to talk to you about the difference between the book and the movie of Anne Frank. One similarity from both is that you hear Anne’s perspective mainly from her diary. In both readers and watchers see others perspective but not to the full truth. One major difference is that you get to see everyone else’s perspective to the full potential. Anne is biased to the point where in the book we do not get everyone’s true perspective we only see how she depicts them in the diary. The setting has also had a big impact on everyone’s perspective. Everyone now lives in a much smaller more confined place which causes many fights to uproar. For example, in the movie Mr and Mrs Van Daan fight about the simplest of things such as their money or even their cigarette supply. One of the biggest conflicts in perspective are Mrs. Van Daan and Anne, their personality conflicts all together. One moment in the book Anne everyone is sitting at the table for dinner and Anne doesn't get many vegetables but a lot of potatoes to make up for it. Mrs Van Daan sees this and automatically jumps on Anne and declares she gets more vegetables even when she herself doesn't have that many vegetables. This discussion then turned into a heated debate on whether or not Anne was brought up proper and if she is to spoiled. All of these comments, argument, and more and causing everyone to be on edge which will cause them to snap. It also does not help the fact that Anne keeps all of her emotions inside of her all the time, Anne does not let anyone inside her little bubble maybe besides Peter. This has happened in both the movie and the book. Perspective is not the only subject with similarities and differences, the plot also has many similarities and differences
Its Jessica here with the plot! ;) All of the events in the movie, for the most part, happen in the book, except one. The biggest difference is that at the end of the movie they show Anne writing her final diary entry, when the soldiers come in the annex and take them away. In the book that part never happened because Anne had to leave her diary behind so and could not write about it. But overall the movie has few difference than the book. One major thing that the book and the movie both have is the romance between Peter and Anne. There are, for lack of a better word, insignificant things in the book that they left out of the movie. But all of the major events are in both the book and the movie.
To sum this all up, there are many similarities and differences between the 2009 PBS movie and The Diary Of Anne Frank. These similarities and differences include: setting, characters, perspective and the all around plot of both stories. All of these pieces are combined and glued together to form many similarities and differences. \
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