Question

Read the excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank. The curtain rises on an empty stage. It is late afternoon November, 1945. The rooms are dusty, the curtains in rags. Chairs and tables are overturned. The door at the foot of the small stairwell swings open. Mr. Frank comes up the steps into view. He is a gentle, cultured European in his middle years. There is still a trace of a German accent in his speech. What do these stage directions reveal about when the opening scene takes place

Answer 1

Answer:

The stage instructions show that the opening scene takes place after the Franks have been captured.

Explanation:

"The Diary of Anne Frank" presents the events covered in "The Diary of a Young Girl" where Anne Frank wrote about the times when she, her family and other Jews were hidden for three years, not to be captured and taken to the Nazi concentration camps. However, they were captured and killed in the concentration camps, only Anne's father, Mr. Frank, survived.

When the opening scene presents Mr. Frank as an elderly man, observing the hiding place where he was, completely destroyed and covered with dust, it wishes to show that this happened after the capture of the Jews and life in the concentration camps.