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    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Essay

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    Today, I am going to discuss the bestselling, fictional novel, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. In her book, Annelise Marie – better known as Anne Frank, documents her experiences during the Holocaust and World War II (WWII). Readers are better able to get a feel for the suspense going on and emotion that Jews experienced, through a teenage mind. Anne Frank was only about 13 when she began writing about her book and 14 during hiding. She talks about the dangers of outside, bombings, shootings

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    The Diary of Anne Frank In this project, I will be comparing the life of Anne Frank to mine. Firstly, I will give a brief timeline of the main events that took place in her lifetime. Then I will begin to compare the various aspects of her life to mine. Finally, I will draw up a conclusion. Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, just 60 years before I was, 1929. During the first three years of her life, The Great Depression happened. The National Socialist Party began to gain

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    Humans don 't realize how much they appreciate something until they lose it. This is especially true when it comes to freedom. In the novel, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the main character, Anne Frank, and her family were prosecuted for being Jews during World War 2. Along with two other families, to save their lives, they took refuge in entering the Secret Annex to escape the barbaric prosecution by the Nazis. However, they paid a heavy price by sacrificing their freedoms. Their yearning

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    The maturation of love burgeoning in the most barbaric physical and emotional settings displays that love can continue to flourish even through life’s hardships. Such is the case as Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacket depicted in the play The Diary of Anne Frank. This enlightening piece of literature is the journey of a Jewish teenage girl who, to escape the Nazis, goes into hiding in a confined annex with her mother, father, sister and another family. With the help of Miep, a Dutch citizen, the

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    “I don’t think then of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remain” (Frank 171). The Diary of Anne Frank is a factual document written by a young girl that explains how her and her family were affected by the Holocaust. Anne spent her days living in constant fear of being discovered, but she still had hopes about what life would be like after the war. She could not go outside and had to remain quiet during the working hours to avoid being discovered by the workers. However, she knew that

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    Annelies Marie Frank is widely known as a Jewish Holocaust victim because she wrote the book, The Diary of a Young Girl, which was published in 1947. This book is a diary that she was writing during the time she was hiding from the Nazis in Holland with her family and the Van Daan family from 1942 to 1944. As a result, the diary is heartrending because we know the fates of Anne and the other people in it. Additionally, there is a play based off the book called The Diary of Anne Frank. At the end

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    How would you feel if you couldn’t hang out with friends, go shopping, or even go outside? After two years, this became normal for a bright spirited thirteen year old girl. Anne Frank had to live in a secret annex to prevent being extinguished by the German Nazi’s, just because of her Jewish religion. Anne went through the rough and rocky Holocaust not knowing what would happen next. During this time Anne was able to stay happy and let her emotions out by writing in a diary. It just so happens that

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    Stay Positive Even if things may seem bad, you should always stay positive. If you were in a horrible situation, what would you do? You should always be positive no matter what situation you are in. Like Anne Frank when she was in hiding and she had looked on the brighter side of their hiding place. Someone else who looked on the brighter side of things was Winston Churchill. While the Axis powers were taking over Europe Churchill kept Great Britain hopeful and calm. Anne Frank is well known for

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    Prutha Patel Mr. Lougheed Magnet Social Studies 3 February, 2016 The Life of Anne Frank On June 12, 1929, Anne Frank (Annelies Marie Frank) was born to Otto and Edith Frank; she had one sister named Margot Frank. Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and died in Lower Saxony, Germany; her education consisted of Sixth Montessori School. Anne Frank was originally a Jewish- German, though moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Anne Frank had a very frantic childhood, has been in a concentration camp

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    Have you ever wondered what life was like for Jews during World War II? The story of Anne Franks tells you this and so much more. The historic and exciting play/diary of Anne Frank also offers the reader an unlimited amount of life lessons that all people today can apply to their daily lives. The piece is a harsh reality that people need to hear in order to show them what happened and how Jewish people felt and lived during those times. The diary/play teaches the reader lessons of trust, people

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