Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl “Yes there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard- covered notebook, bearing the proud name of “diary”, to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.” Anne Frank divulges that she wants her diary to be a friend to her unlike her other friends, she feels isolated and alone sometimes, and wants her diary to be someone she can talk to openly and honestly about everything. So she calls her diary “Kitty” and addresses it as her friend. Anne was often emotional and insecure of herself. She felt as though she didn't …show more content…
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl “Yes there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard- covered notebook, bearing the proud name of “diary”, to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.” Anne Frank divulges that she wants her diary to be a friend to her unlike her other friends, she feels isolated and alone sometimes, and wants her diary to be someone she can talk to openly and honestly about everything. So she calls her diary “Kitty” and addresses it as her friend. Anne was often emotional and insecure of herself. She felt as though she didn't have any true confidants, which led her to feel lonely and misunderstood. “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as a great source of comfort and support.” A critical point about Anne Frank's diary is that it was written during the years of her adolescence. She struggled with many typical teenage problems- yearning for her own space away from adult meddling, burgeoning sexuality, and the quest for her own identity- in a enclosed space with little privacy. Unplanned Anne and Peter Van Daan formed a friendship tinged with romantic desires. In the beginning Anne thought of Peter as lazy; weak character. He was also shy and awkward, hardly a person worth her notice. But a year and a half later in the hiding,
The first part of the diary starts with her being a regular girl having fun and turns into a girl going into hiding with seven other people. In addition, she has to deal with relation problems with her mom, sister, and the people she is in hiding with. The problems begin when eight people are confined in a small area and everybody begins to irritate and annoy one another. Anne was especially concerned with herself and with her attitude towards the others in the group. She's mainly concerned with her mother who always treats her like baby. Mr. Frank tires to ease the quarrels between them by telling Anne to help out more around the house, but Anne stubbornly declines preferring to concentrate more on her studies. She especially gets plenty of confrontations with Mrs. Van Daan who thinks she is a spoiled little girl. Mrs. Van Daan constantly tells Anne’s father, “ If Anne were my daughter.” Anne’s respond to this in her diary was, “Thank heavens I’m not!” Of course
Anne Frank was 13 years old at the time she started writing in her diary. She is a girl that is smart, intelligent and a good writer. She is also a talkative, optimistic, caring person that cared for anyone that happened to them. She wrote about anything at any time that seemed important or just to write it down. Imagine if you had to go through all of what she had to do to survive and adapt. This would connect to many children and families that are hated or in hiding. Kids that are in fear that are in hiding can connect to Anne Frank. Even little kids when they are in fear when they are in hiding when a robber enters the house. Anne Frank would not different from the other kids, she just wanted a normal life and
Peter is quiet and a shy boy. He has many duties chopping wood, fetching vegetables and potatoes from downstairs, and looking out for his cat. Anne thought he was boring and awkward. She later thought different and in up falling in love with him after she found him as a decent boy.
In the book entitled “Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl” by Anne Frank, one can come to the conclusion that Anne’s diary, who she granted the name Kitty, can be identified as a character who is the narrator’s best friend because Anne states that she wants Kitty to be a friend, because she has no real friend and that Kitty can be labeled with the characteristic of being loyal. The diary which has obtained the name Kitty can be labeled as a best friend to the main character Anne because on page three in the second paragraph, the narrator writes, “... but I want this diary in itself to be my friend and I shall call my friend Kitty.” This quote occurs when Anne Frank is explaining how she is more pleased
“The Diary of a Young Girl” starts on Anne Frank’s thirteenth birthday and which she receives her first diary. She calls her diary Kitty and she confides everything in her
Anne had a heart filled with hope and had a bright future ahead of her, as the war progressed she began to see the suffering of the people around her. Everyone did love her personality. She was very curious, talkative, and playful and was lots of fun to be around. Anne had a hunger for knowledge and was very optimistic. Writing was always her favorite thing. It calmed her from the rages of the world, she could just write and be herself. When she went into hiding she lived in a place called the Secret Annex. A Secret Annex was a building that was placed between two buildings. The first floor was Otto Frank's business and the second was the hiding spot. The real name in Dutch meant behind or back, so in the diary, they used the term Secret Annex. For over 2 years she lived in the secret home, and that is when she got her journal at the age of 13. Almost every day she would write about her current life and the things going on around her. She would write about how much she missed her friends from school and often missed being outside out in the open air. When the Van Pels moved in they had a son named Peter, Anne would play around with Peter, take his shoes and hide them. She thought it was very amusing, Peter didn't quite think so.
It seems ironic for Anne's diary to be symbolic of her diary, however it is. Anne receives her diary on her 13th birthday. In the diary, which Anne calls Kitty, she records her thoughts and opinions on the people she is living with in hiding, the war, and her experiences in maturing into a young lady. For Anne, her diary becomes a friend who “is more patient than man”. Later, after Anne’s death her father, Otto Frank, circulated copies of her diary to friends and was urged to make it public and publish the acount. An edited
From her perspective, Anne Frank, a young girl, displays her fear of being discovered by writing down her experiences. Her diary gives insight on what it was like to be a Jew and in hiding, during the time when the Nazis sought to kill all Jews. Although written from a subjective point of view, the diary is considered reliable as it is a personal type of writing, thoughts the owner of the diary would not disclose to another. However, as the first edition of the diary was published after the death of Anne Frank on the 25th of June, 1947, and having it edited by her father, Otto Frank, it does not display an accurate representation of the two years Anne wrote in hiding as his father decided what would be published.
The quote that I picked was found on lesson one on Edgenuity in the reading called "Anne Frank's The Diary of (A) Young Girl, the quote is "It seems like years since Sunday morning. So much has happened its as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. But, as you can see Kitty, I'm still alive, and that's the main thing, Father says. I'm alive all right, but don't ask where or how. You probably don't understand a word I'm saying today." This quote means that she does show a sense of courage in a time where you never really seen any of that. When she was writing there were examples of pettiness in which she shared personal items with everyone. One example is when Mrs. Van Daan does not want her sheets to be used, but yet she expects to use all the Franks' sheets, Anne's mother Mrs. Frank does not want to use her dinnerware, but yet expects the Van Daan family to use their dinnerware. Also although the protectors should be commended for their bravery and selflessness, it is also true that they had less at stake than the members of the Secret Annex. I feel like as if I was Anne Frank I wouldn't be able to write in a diary because I would be scared of it being found. I make a connection with her by being able to be open with people, that is a sense of courage. Anne didn't let anyone stop her from
Anne matures throughout the course of her diary entries, moving from detailed accounts of basic activities to deeper, more profound thoughts about humanity and her own personal nature. “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” This shows that Anne matures through the course of her diary, she considers herself as a woman rather than a young girl and sets goals for herself that she wants to achieve. Anne becomes more optimistic even after she feels misunderstood by everyone and feels completely alone.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is organized in chronological order and include the dates important to the Jewish author. On Anne’s thirteenth birthday, she receives a diary she calls “Kitty,” and this is where she records events that happened to her. Anne includes writings about her brief normal life and the life in the “Secret Annex.” She and her family are hiding from the Gestapo during WWII. As the story progresses, more Jews join the Franks. There is great conflict between Anne and the rest of the residents, though sometimes her father is “darling.” After a little more than two years in hiding, the German police discovered the secret Jews and sent them into labor camps, where Otto Frank was the only survivor. Anne matures and finds Peter at her side, even though there is tension between the other Van Daans and herself. Not only is there conflict between Mrs. Van Daan, but with Anne’s own mother and her roommate, Mr. Dussel.
love with Anne; "Peter loves me not as a lover but as a friend and
The Diary of Anne Frank is about exerts from Anne franks diary who is a 13 year old girl who would write in her diary on a daily bases about her life. Then she was forced to hide out because she was Jewish. Anne was very positive attitude. She writes in her diary to clear her mind and her positive attitude really shines in her exerts. She states that although its really small she tries add her own touches. She tries to decorate to feel at
In the first chapter of the Diary of Anne Frank, from dates June 14, 1942, to July 9, 1942, she starts to first talk about naming her diary “kitty”(page 3). She then goes on to talk about how she enjoyed her last weeks of freedom and why her father decided to go into hiding. This was all started when the family received a letter requesting the presence of her “sister in a concentration camp” (page 16). Her father realizes it 's a trick to put her into a concentration camp and forces them into the secret rooms behind the bookcase where Anne family and friends would begin hiding. These first few entries are staring to describe the family 's struggles and how joyful and willing Anne really is.
This literary work truly shows how Anne Frank was a martyr of racism and an insightful chronicler of her time period and place. The work also shows the typical adolescence of Anne Frank and her constant arguments with her mother in particular. It also deals with the day to day hiding she and her family went through. The only problem with the book is that the fact that Anne Frank rewrote her diary about two months before she was captured because she wanted her journal to be published after the war and she wanted to peruse a career in journalism. Therefore it is hard to tell what existed in her original copy and how much did she add afterwards.