Personal Narrative: The Diary Of Anne Frank

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Many people know the story of a girl named Anne Frank's experience during one of the biggest genocides known as the holocaust. Anne Frank kept a diary through the years that later on became discovered and was published by her father Otto Frank. Throughout her diary it shows a day to day lifestyle while she was in hiding. Anne had spent about 25 months in hiding. Throughout these 25 months it is clear that Anne did develope . Anne definitely changed throughout the course of her diary emotionally and mentally . Anne Frank started off writing her diary when she was in her original house back in June 12 1942. She had received the diary for her birthday. Her first words in the diary were “ I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, …show more content…

Maybe this time they'll be unpredictable in the right direction for a change. I'm not so worried about my girlfriends and myself. We'll make it. The only subject I'm not sure about is math. Anyway, all we can do is wait. Until then, we keep telling each other not to lose heart. I get along pretty well with all my teachers. There are nine of them, seven men and two women. Mr. Keesing, the old fogey who teaches math, was mad at me for the longest time because I talked so much. After several warnings, he assigned me extra homework. An essay on the subject "A Chatterbox." A chatterbox, what can you write about that? I'd worry about that later, I decided. I jotted down the assignment in my notebook, tucked it in my bag and tried to keep quiet. That evening, after I'd finished the rest of my homework, the note about the essay caught my eye. I began thinking about the subject while chewing the tip of my fountain pen. Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking. I thought and thought, and suddenly I had an idea. I wrote the three pages Mr. Keesing had assigned me and was satisfied. I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it