Scene 5: December 1942

In the beginning of this scene, Mr. Frank starts off reading from the bible. Everybody is celebrating Channukah! Everybody is putting aside the way and all of the bad things in life, to celebrate such a happy day in the Jewish Community. They are all trying to maintain traditions in the Annex, as the would in a normal household. But everyone was shocked when Mr. Dussel  asked something about St. Nicholas Day. He is catholic, but is still considered Jewish because some of his relatives are Jewish. They all still fallowed the lighting of the candles. I think that this is good for them because it still means that they haven't lost hope yet, and that they all still have a little life in them to celebrate! Right after everyone has finished lighting the candles, Anne comes out with a surprise for everyone, presents! She specially found or made each person a present! Some of them even came with a poem. I find this so nice of her because this truly made everyones holidays the best and it lightened up everyones day. But the most important thing to me was that everybody was so shocked that Anne out of all people would do this. This showed that everyone has a sweet and kind side to them. Usually she is sneaky and wouldn't do these things, but it was so kind of her. But the celebration was ended when somebody broke into the Annex. Everyone was so worried because they thought is was the green police. So at once everyone was as quiet as a mouse. Peter and Anne then went downstairs to investigate. As they are tip-toeing town the stairs they realize that this person is really just a thief. So they go to the bottom of the stairs and hide there, but before they knew it the green police actually do come! So they rush up the steps to warn everyone, and to hide themselves. The green police came up the stairs but thankfully, no one was caught. But on the down side, somebody now knows that they are hiding in the Annex, and everyone is paranoid.