Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Topics for Discussion & Projects | BookRags.com

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Topics for Further Study

Read one of Frank's short stories. Do you think the story has literary merit? Do you believe, based on the story, that Frank would have been a good fiction writer? Are there stylistic or thematic similarities to The Diary of a Young Girl?

Imagine that Frank survived World War II and that you are looking forward to attending a lecture given by her at a local university. Choose any theme you deem appropriate and write her lecture. Consider how she may or may not have changed since her teenage years in the Secret Annex. Also speculate on what she would be doing today had she lived.

Research the Jim Crow laws, which sustained racial segregation in the American South during the first part of the twentieth century. Compare these laws to the Nazi's increasingly restrictive measures inflicted on Jews in occupied Holland. Draw conclusions about the similarities and...
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