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How Does Anne Frank Change Throughout The Novel

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Max Ippolito Period 2 9/12/15 Summer Reading In the story, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank explains the story of how she was cut off from all her friends and family and forced to go into hiding to avoid being killed by the violent warfare of World War II. All Jews in German-occupied Holland were sent to concentration camps where they would eventually be killed. Anne and her family hid behind a book shelf in the basement, so they couldn't be killed by the Germans. This diary was given to Anne for her thirteenth birthday, it starts out as her living a normal life and then transitions to a first person perspective of the horror of the killing going on just outside her house. She starts to become isolated from the rest of the world, having to be quiet all day and night, only to put her thoughts and messages in this diary. We see how she matures throughout the book during this very difficult time as a teenager. …show more content…

One quotes says, “Nice people, the Germans! To think I was once one of them too! No, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. In fact, Germans and Jews are the greatest enemies of the world” (page 36). The Germans or Nazis were led by their leader, Hitler, whose hatred for all Jews was because he wanted to build a empire and thought all Jews must be eliminated so he could make it. Anne uses her sarcasm to explain to us how bad the Germans actually were to the Jews. In this quote she explains how she was just like the Germans, living a normal life and then because of her religion she has had everything taken away from her and is now forced to fear everyday she is alive. A differing of beliefs is what made some many innocent lives lost throughout this

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