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Anne Frank Conflict

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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. Anne and her family were forced into hiding after her sister, Margot, got called up: “Margot told me that the call-up was not for Daddy, but for her” (14). They immediately rushed to the attic in a building that contains her father’s office. Anne describes her “beautiful Secret Annex” (18) and depicts where everyone’s room and living area is. There are many things for the family to get used to, such as the chiming clock, “Daddy, Mummy, and Margot can’t get used to the sound of the Westeroren clock yet, which tells us the time every quarter of an hour. I can. I loved it from the start…it’s like a faithful friend.” Anne doesn’t feel right at home, but she does love the chime of the large clock. As soon as the family moved in to the Annex, Anne and her father prepared for their long stay: “We had to start clearing up immediately, if we wished to sleep in decent beds that night” (19). This symbolizes the long work they did to prepare for their long stay in the attic. This also shows the reader the amount of effort Anne had to try and help her father. Anne and her father were very busy, and Margot and her mother were not doing much, “We hadn’t had a bit of anything warm the whole day, but we didn’t care; Mummy and Margot were too tired and keyed up to eat, and Daddy and I were

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