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    The Diary of A Young Girl

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    The diary begins on Anne's 13th birthday in 1942 and ends shortly after her 15th birthday. It describes her experiences at school and being forced into hiding with her family for two years to escape Nazi persecution, living in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne struggles with confinement and growing up during this difficult time, maturing in her thoughts about humanity and identity.

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    The Diary of A Young Girl

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    The diary begins on Anne's 13th birthday in 1942 and ends shortly after her 15th birthday. It describes her experiences at school and being forced into hiding with her family for two years to escape Nazi persecution, living in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne struggles with confinement and growing up during this difficult time, maturing in her thoughts about humanity and identity.

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    The diary begins on Anne's 13th birthday in 1942 and ends shortly after her 15th birthday. It describes her experiences at school and being forced into hiding with her family for two years to escape Nazi persecution, living in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne struggles with confinement and growing up during this difficult time, maturing in her thoughts about humanity and identity.

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    The Diary of A Young Girl

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    The diary begins on Anne's 13th birthday in 1942 and ends shortly after her 15th birthday. It describes her experiences at school and being forced into hiding with her family for two years to escape Nazi persecution, living in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne struggles with confinement and growing up during this difficult time, maturing in her thoughts about humanity and identity.

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    Abiera
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    The Diary of a young girl


    Annes diary begins on her thirteenth birthday, June 12, 1942, and ends
    shortly after her fifteenth. At the start of her diary, Anne describes fairly typical
    girlhood experiences, writing about her friendships with other girls, her crushes on
    boys, and her academic performances at school. Because anti-Semitic laws forced
    Jews into separate schools, Anne and her older sister, Margot, attended the Jewish
    Lyceum in Amsterdam. The Franks had moved to the Netherlands in the years
    leading up to World War II to escape persecution in Germany. After the Germans
    invaded the Netherlands in 1940, the Franks were forced into hiding. With another
    family, the vans Daans, and an acquaintance, Mr. Dussel, they moved into a small
    secret annex above Otto Franks office where they had stockpiled food and supplies.
    The employees from Ottos firm helped hide the Franks and kept them supplied with
    food, medicine, and information about the outside world. The residents of the annex
    pay close attention to every development of the war by listening to the radio. Some
    bits of news catch Annes attention and make their way into her diary, providing a
    vivid historical context for her personal thoughts. The adults make optimistic bets
    about when the war will end, and their mood is severely affected by Allied setbacks
    o German advances. Amsterdam is devastated by the war during the two years the
    Franks are in hiding. All of the citys residents suffer, since food becomes scarce and
    robberies more frequent. Anne often writes about her feelings of isolation and
    loneliness. She has a tumultuous relationship with the adults in the annex,
    particularly her mother, whom she considers lacking in love and affection. She
    adores her father, but she is frequently scolded and criticized by Mr. and Mrs. Van
    Daan and Mr. Dussel. Anne thinks that her sister, Margot is smart, pretty, and
    agreeable, but she does not feel close to her and does not write much about her.
    Anne eventually develops a close friendship with Peter van Daan, the teenage boy
    in the annex. Mr. Frank does not approve, however, and the intensity of Annes
    infatuation begins to lessen. Anne matures considerably throughout the course of
    her diary entries, moving from detailed accounts of basic activities to deeper, more
    profound thoughts about humanity and her own personal nature. She finds it
    difficult to understand why the Jews are being singled out and persecuted. Anne
    also confronts her own identity. Though she considers herself to be German, her
    German citizenship has been revoked, and though she calls Holland her home,
    many of the Dutch have turned against the Jews. Anne feels a tremendous solidarity
    with her aggrieved people, and yet at the same time she wants to be seen as an
    individual rather than a member of a persecuted group. During the two years record
    in her diary, Anne deals with confinement and deprivation, as well as the
    complicated and difficult issues of growing up in the brutal circumstances of the
    Holocaust. Her diary describes a struggle to define herself within this climate of
    oppression. Annes diary ends without comment on August 1, 1944, the end of a
    seemingly normal day that leaves us with the expectation of seeing another entry
    on the next page. However, the Frank family is betrayed to the Nazis and arrested
    on August 4, 1944. Annes diary, the observations of an imaginative, friendly,

    Georbert T. Abiera
    English 201/00867

    The Diary of a young girl


    sometimes pretty, and rather normal teenage girl, comes to an abrupt and silent
    end. Otto Frank is the familys sole survivor, and her recovers Annes diary from
    Miep. He decides to fulfill Annes diary to become a condemnation of the
    unimaginable horror of the Holocaust, and one of the few accounts that describe it
    from a young persons perspective.

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