Question 5 (#2)

I think the fear of discovery and the need to keep silent for certain hours each day would have been the hardest thing about living in the secret annex. Probably everyone was afraid of being discovered because if they are caught in hiding, they probably would get dragged off into the death camp. If they are not quiet for certain hours in the day, they have a possibility of getting caught and again being dragged off into the death camp. Probably people were worried that the children would make a noise or Peter's cat. If they make one wrong move and make a loud noise, people can hear from outside and under the annex. It would be a terribly frightening thing to do if that happened. They all probably tried to keep the discovery part out of their heads but they always had to remember to take thier shoes off at certain times of the day so that they would make no noise while there were people working downstairs. It was something that they all had to remember to do everyday or else they probably would have gotten caught. Sometimes I wonder how they thought of each detail or rule that they had to follow and the amount of time for being safe and taking your shoes off. It probably required many long hours of thinking. Anyways it would have been really hard for me if I had to do all that.