760 word essay on Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary Of A Young Girl Dylan Morrison-Fogel

The book the Diary of A Young Girl, by Anne Frank, is about a Jewish girl in the middle of the Holocaust. The war makes it hard for any Jewish person have a normal life, because it stops them from shopping in most stores. Being Jewish also stops you from having friends of another religion. The girl, Anne Frank, began to keep a diary of her life just before her 13th birthday. She had just gone into hiding with her family to stay away from the Nazis. She stayed in her dads office building, in a hidden series of rooms in the upper floors. The office was in Amsterdam in a small town. Her family shared the rooms with another family of four at the time but as the war went on they took in other people. They had limited food but the food income, and the supply income, was steady. As the war went on Anne had experienced buglers and police that break into the office building. After a while of not seeing any other people her age, Anne started to fall in love with a boy named Peter Van Daan, who lived with the other family that stayed in the office. Peter was 17 years old and had liked Anne's sister, Margot. Anne and Peter would sneak up to the attic and see each other. Almost two years had gone by in the office (the “Secret Annex”), and Anne and Peter had decided to tell Anne's dad about them seeing each other. One day, Anne told her dad about Peter and herself. Later that day, Anne's dad (Otto Frank) talked to her about Peter. He said that Peter did not have enough character for Anne. He also told Anne to not see Peter as much in the attic. Anne responded to that by writing her dad a disrespectful letter that implied that Anne did not have enough respect for her parents to listen to them. Anne soon makes up with her dad, just in time for her 15th birthday. Anne received a lot of gifts for her birthday. Anne soon finds that Peter is not as good as she thinks he is but she discovers a way to like him anyway. At the end of the book, Anne finds that there are two different sides to her. There is the Anne that everyone sees, and the Anne that she really is. The Anne that everyone sees is a careless, high spirited, cheerful and irritating person. Most people don’t like Anne because this personality is always showing. The other side of Anne (the real side) is careful, creative, polite, and a little insecure. Anne starts to wonder about her future and cares about what will happen to her friends and family. Anne stops writing in her diary after that. Later on in the book, the story is finished and it tells about Anne's life after. Anne, along with everyone else in the “Secret Annex”, is captured by the Germans and sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz, Germany. The men were separated from the women. That was the last time Anne saw her dad. She was kept in a barrack with her mom and sister and other Jewish women. It was very clean there and the people received their fare rations of food. Anne could take showers and stay clean along with everyone else. Anne and Margot were moved to a camp in Belsen, Germany. Anne was sick when she arrived there, but she found her old school friend Lies. Margot died a little while after arriving but Anne did not know. A few days later Anne died too. The only survivor of the dwellers of the “Secret Annex” was Otto Frank. I think this book described Anne's life very well in her last 2-3 years. It described her daily activities and her feelings about her friends and family. The book made me think that Anne had started a diary just to vent her bad feelings. This is because most of the writing is about how annoying Mrs. Van Daan was or how perfect Margot thought she was. Anne wrote in almost every entry that someone was fighting with her or someone else. Most of the feelings she wrote were bad feelings to someone. This book was very clear on the main characters feelings compared to other bibliographies I have read. It not only had feelings for other characters but it also has Anne's feelings about herself.