To make things worse , outside there is not a single bird to be heard. This immediately leads her into another thought, from which a simile emerges. Anne compares herself to a songbird “whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurting itself against the bars of its drake.” Anne shows that she thinks like a writer , receiving an impression from the outside world and then having it pop up in her mind again in a image that illustrates something about her own life. A few days later, she uses another image from nature to describe her situation. She sees the eight people in the annex as if they are “a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing clouds.” The clouds are moving in on them in a dark mass, and above them in the peace and beauty of