The Diary of a Young Girl documents the story by Anne Frank that talks about her life before and during hiding from the Nazi. She talks about the inhabitants of the annex, listing her mother, sister, father,a dentist, and family “friends” as others living in the Annex. They were Jewish and were being persecuted by the Nazi. To escape them they went into hiding, but they never expected to stay in there for over two years. The abhorrent situation in the Secret Annexe caused the inhabitants to suffer through emotional and mental challenges which ultimately affected them both positively and negatively. Going into the annex Anne was naive and acted like your average thirteen year old. Movies, , boys, and ect. were things that worried Anne. …show more content…
She felt that everyone in the annex would constantly criticize her. She would be called “childish”. Otto Frank said that they thought they could live in peace and silence but that turned out to false because they had not thought about “ how many difficulties would arise due the combination of characters and opinions” (Frank 1). Anne frequently clashed with the women and stated she “never wanted to be like mummy, and Mrs. Van Pels”(Frank 147). She thought that they never really became their own independent person and pursued their passion, and that made Anne mad and frustrated, Despite all the madness, the experiences in the annex brought them together in the end, and it made them toughen up. Her biggest critic was herself and eventually what the others said about her did not matter. There were bigger problems on Anne’s mind. She had hope for the future and she had plans to become a writer. Anne took her writing seriously, after hearing she could become famous if she survived to publish her work. Due to the severity of Anne’s seriousness on writing in her diary , she often fought with Fritz to sit at the small table in her room. It angered her that he considered her passion of
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 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.
How would you feel if you were locked in an attic, for two years? Most likely you would not be as happy as this young girl. I do not think anyone could have the best attitude when faced with this situation. However, Anne Frank did. One of her most famous quotes was "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." Anne didn't know what was going to happen when she went into hiding, but she was not upset. In fact, she was still happy and made the best of her situation. What she did to entertain herself might have annoyed the others in the annex, but she did not care what the others thought of her. This is what makes Anne such an amazing person. Everybody in the secret hiding spot, which was an attic above her father's
“It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” (Anne Frank) Anne Frank was one of the many children who fell victim to the Holocaust during the World War II. Anne’s story is nothing short of a tragedy; she died at the early age of fifteen from Typhus while being held by the Nazi Regime, in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Before dying, Anne and her family went into hiding and lived secretly in her father's office building in the Netherlands. While living in the “Annex,” a secret hiding place, she developed many interests such as reading and writing. Anne is famous because she is one of the best-known victims of the Holocaust, her story has been shared with millions in a publication of her diary, and through her writing’s she introduces many people to the massacre and its horror.
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.
Thirteen year old Anne Frank is stuck in an attic for 2 years during World War II. This can sometimes take a toll on one's personality. Anne Frank's book titled "The Diary of Anne Frank" takes people through what it was like to be a Jewish teenager during World War II. Anne and her family was forced to move into hiding, because of the harsh measures being taken by Nazis to rid Europe of Jews. During Anne's time in the annex, readers get to know her well, as she changes from the beginning, to the end of her time in hiding. While Anne at the beginning is different from Anne at the end, she still is consistent in some of her personality traits throughout the entire book. When the tyranny of Hitler began, Anne’s concerns changed, along with
In the beginning, Anne was a very outgoing, happy girl. She was very immature and tried looking
The Diary of Anne Frank shows the changes in behavior and maturity for the main character, Anne, as she stays in the annex for two years.In Act I, Anne was more energetic and playful as a thirteen-year-old. Act I Scene 3 highlights Anne’s playful and clumsy behavior by talking about her pranks. On page 552, it states “Anne: Who cares if it’s dignified? I don’t want to be dignified. Mrs. Frank: [To Anne] You complain that I don’t treat you like a grownup. But when I do, you resent it” (Goodrich and Hackett 552). This shows that Anne is not ready to be treated like an adult. She dislikes when her mother expects her to be mature and she has a teenage mentality. She does not care that her behavior is not dignified and mature. She wants to have fun and frolic, much like what a child would want. Therefore, in the beginning of Act I, Anne acts childish and immature. However, in Scene 4 of Act II, it mentions how Anne has matured. “She is no longer a child, but a woman with courage to meet whatever lies ahead” (634). This quote shows that change that Anne has gone through as a
Don’t you hate it when your family and strangers treat you in a harsh way. Anne Frank was treated harshly by some people in the secret annex people would yell at her call her spoiled lazy and was always telling her what to do. But some people treated her nicely like Peter VanDaan and her dad in a way that made her feel loved by some people around her. Anne was a twelve year old girl when she was forced into hiding because she was a Jew in Nazi territory during WW2. Anne is treated by the people in the annex in many ways and that effects her character in such a way that changes her character.
Throughout her time in the “Secret Annexe,” (what she called their hiding space) Anne grew from a hot-headed child into a smart young woman. In the beginning of the book, only 2 months after going into hiding, she writes that feels grateful that her and her family have been spared the fate of some of her friends, however this also makes her feel guilty, because she can’t save those who didn’t get the chance to go into hiding. In her diary, on November 19, 1942, she wrote,“We’re so fortunate here, away from the turmoil. We wouldn’t have to give a moment’s thought to all this suffering if it weren’t for the fact that we’re so worried about those we hold dear, whom we can no longer help. I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while somewhere out there my dearest friends are dropping from exhaustion or being knocked to the ground.” (paragraph 5 pg 55)
In the famous story of a girl, named Anne Frank, we see this true life story of this one girl hiding in the secret Annex with her family and friends. Anne Frank by Anne Frank, is a diary with her true feelings and confusion in life with comical laughs in it. But one thing she is different is, isolation. She feels isolated from her family is different values. Her mother she feels the most isolated from. In the outside world, her family is being isolated also , in hiding. But in her own way of happiness too. The Secret Annex shows all the isolation, good and bad of Anne, and her feelings.
It was one of the many saddest events that occurred in the history of the world. In the following paragraphs you will be reading a summary or a “movie review”, what ever might call it, about Anne Frank. At the end of the review I will write about my opinion to the movie.
Anne Frank is the most well known member of the “Secret Annex” The reason being she has given the most descriptive and vivid feel of what it’s like hiding from Germany’s rule during the Holocaust, through her diary, that was published by Otto Frank, (Anne’s father, also the only survivor of the Secret Annex.) Otto read Anne’s diary and figured that the world needs to know about what was written in her diary. In later times when the diary had become more well known, the school that Anne Frank attended before the Holocaust, was renamed, “Anne Frank middle school.” The members of the Secret Annex were the Van Danns, Peter, Mr., and Mr.’s, Mr. Dussel, and the
Some the people in the Annex complain about Anne because her personality can get to be a litte much as well as she can be bossy towards other people.
comparison I can think of is when I moved to middle school. I was the