Anne Frank Thesis

In the duration of Anne Frank’s diary, she shows little fear that she will end up losing her life. While she does this, she talks about what she would like to do after the war is over and she can finally come out of hiding. Anne’s Jewish family goes into hiding in June of 1942, after her sister, Margot gets called up to work at a concentration camp. Anne is a 13-year-old Jewish teenage girl, and Jews are the main target to Nazis. A few weeks after the Franks go into hiding they are joined by another Jewish family, the Van Daans. They are hiding in the Secret Annex for about two years, when someone gives their location to the Nazi police anonymously, and they get split up and sent to concentration camps. I feel that Anne believes she is going to survive the war, and that she is most optimistic of that towards the end of the diary, when they listen to the radio about the Allies invading. Sadly, they were caught before

In her diary, Anne writes about a lot of personal things about her, and she also talks about the other Annex members in degrading ways. Even when she writes such awful things about the people she spends all her days with, she still has nice conversations with them some of the time. For example, they talk about “what we each want to do first when we are able to go outside again” (Frank 111). Everyone living in the Annex, despite the awful conditions that brought them together, was able to stay hopeful and keep looking toward the future, rather than complaining about their situation. They considered themselves lucky, and they were. They were optimistic that they would be able to return to their old lives after the war was over, even when they knew the chances of that were low. This goes to prove that not only did Anne believe she could survive, but so did the