The name Ann Frank has become so popular from a required reading in high school that she needs little introduction. She was a school girl in Nazi Germany, during World War II, that was forced into hiding because she was Jewish. This particular essay gives you some of her earlier diary entries that give you a view of her life before she was in hiding. Our second essay, "The long Good-Bye," was written by a women named Amanda Coyne. She gives us a look at what family life is like in a Federal prison. My essay discusses the similarities and differences between Frank's point of view in writing to her friend Kitty-a diary and Coyne's in reporting Mother's day at the federal prison.
             In both situations rights have been removed and have been replaced with more restrictions, but the women try to hold on to some of their natural habits. In Amanda Coyne's essay, she observes a group of women trying to let go of their surroundings and remember what it was like on the outside by sampling each others perfumes. "It seems that Charity's uncanny talent for divine brand names is perhaps nowhere on earth more appreciated than here with these sensory-starved inmates,"(pg195) Coyne describes. The women in the federal prison are also limited to there dress code. Women aren't allowed to wear shorts that are to short and are regularly checked by security guards. Coyne's sister Jennifer tells them a story about one of the main security guards named Ponytail, "She is also the toughest guard here, particularly in regards to the federal rules governing exposed skin."(pg195) These are a lot more petty the restrictions that Ann had to face. In her diary she gives us some examples, "Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews were forbidd
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