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Introduction The book “Anne Frank: The Diary of Young Girl” is an autobiography by Anne Frank itself, a Jewish girl. In this diary, she writes about her deepest thoughts, feelings, how they hid to escape Hitler’s anti-Jewish laws and genocidal desires and how the war affected the lives of the nation. The story made by Anne Frank is summarized below.

Summary Anne Frank’s story starts when she receives a diary from her parents on her thirteenth birthday. Excited like anyone who receives a gift on their birthday, she writes her personal thoughts, experiences and feelings. Anne addresses it to “Kitty” as if she was a talking to her best friend, a true friend. She talked about her personal life, her friendship with other girls, her boy crushes and her performance at school. However, like all the other odds, everything changes after a month. On September 1st of 1939, Germany invades Poland and that’s where World War II starts. As Jews, they had to go hide for the fear for their lives. Nazis were gathering all Jews in concentration camps and they had no choice rather than hiding. With another family, the Van Daan and an acquaintance, Mr. Dussel, they moved into a secret annex which was behind a swinging bookcase where Otto, Anne’s father works above. Employees from Otto’s firm helped …show more content…

Dussel hid quietly so they wouldn’t get caught. Fortunately, there were a lot of books to read and a radio to keep them out of boredom. Anne still writes occurrences happening during the war. She widens her learning in politics and literature; she exerts effort in studying and writing during the time of hiding especially when she heard from the cabinet minister that he would put together personal accounts such as letters and diaries about the war. Unfortunately, at the near end of her diary, she struggles to fight oppression and deals with deprivation and confinement since her adolescence was taken from her due to the

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Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during the occupation by the Nazis. She was forced to go into hiding above her father's work for two years to avoid prison. During her time in hiding, she kept a diary and wrote about her experience. Frank writes about her loving and compassionate family and also mentions how she has built new relationships with the other families in the house. In her diaries, Frank frequently emphasizes the value of family, emphasizing how her trials were made easier by the presence of those she loved who understood what she was going through.

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For Anne, she is not allowed to go outside, see her friends, and do the many things every young girl enjoys. Instead, Anne is forced to hide in an annex with her family so they can have a chance to remain alive. If not, Anne and her family will be captured and then sent away from each other to dangerous, devastating camps that the Nazis held. Even though it would be hard for a lot of people to have to hide, Anne considers herself still fortunate for stilling being alive and the opportunities she has

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Works Cited Frank, Anne. " Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl." Studysync: Reading & Writing Companion. Sonoma, CA: BookheadEd Learning, LLC, 2015. 372-74.

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“Addressing her diary entries to an imaginary friend she called Kitty. Anne Frank wrote about life in hiding ,including her impressions of the other inhabitants of the Secret Annex, her feelings of loneliness and her frustration over the lack of privacy”(History.comstaff”). Unfortunately, Anne and her family meet tragedy. The Frank deads was cause by either gas chambers,illness or concentration camp.but the only family member who survive is Otto Frank.(“History.com Staff”).

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During her confinement in the annex Anne often turns to the privacy of her diary to confide in. The diary is a place where“[Anne] can put all of her thoughts, all [her] feelings” (33), which is a luxury many of the other residents in the annex desire. During the play, we witness some of the direct quotes from Anne 's diary. Along with the humour and trivial problems that a teenager would write about, there are poetic and morose segments about her feelings about the holocaust and being trapped in the annex. She writes about being "surrounded by darkness and danger" (40); these sentiments from a 14-year-old girl gives insight to the forcibly accelerated way she grows up under such circumstances.

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