Anne Frank: Knowing a Girl Through her Diary
Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl is about her struggle to find her identity-not only as a teenage girl, but as a Dutch Jew who would eventually be persecuted for her faith. Anne Frank’s development from a giddy preteen into an introspective mature young woman as a result of being trapped as her religion is extraordinary.
Anne Frank’s conflicts are rooted in her being trapped as a result of her religion. Her conflict begins once her father Otto Frank moved the family to Holland in 1933 to escape Adolf Hitler’s squalid treatment of Jews living in Germany. Once Adolf Hitler invaded Holland in 1940, Anne was forced to leave her school to attend a Jewish one. She felt alienated and alone at her school which pushes her towards writing, “‘Paper has more patience than people’…I’m back to the point that prompted me to keep a diary in the first place: I don’t have a friend.” (Frank)
As the abysmal conditions for Jews intensified and Margot Frank receives a …show more content…
She documents her frustrations and her process of maturing. She works at holding her temper, controlling her argumentative ways, being less judgmental, acting kinder to the other occupants, and thinking more positively. At times she succeeds, and other times she considers herself a failure. Anne Frank’s growth is demonstrated through the eloquence of her writings that become profound musings with tinges of bitter irony. Her writing provides a “universalizing of her experience of persecution to such a degree that it applies to all kinds of injustices in the world” (Bos). She demonstrates “self-development through the intersubjectivity of empathic interaction” (Brenner). Anne’s maturity by the conclusion of the diary is demonstrated through her incredibly reflective “contemplation of developmentally important issues” but readers tend to forget she was only a
Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl is about her struggle to find her identity-not only as a teenage girl, but as a Dutch Jew who would eventually be persecuted for her faith. Anne Frank’s development from a giddy preteen into an introspective mature young woman as a result of being trapped as her religion is extraordinary.
Anne Frank’s conflicts are rooted in her being trapped as a result of her religion. Her conflict begins once her father Otto Frank moved the family to Holland in 1933 to escape Adolf Hitler’s squalid treatment of Jews living in Germany. Once Adolf Hitler invaded Holland in 1940, Anne was forced to leave her school to attend a Jewish one. She felt alienated and alone at her school which pushes her towards writing, “‘Paper has more patience than people’…I’m back to the point that prompted me to keep a diary in the first place: I don’t have a friend.” (Frank)
As the abysmal conditions for Jews intensified and Margot Frank receives a …show more content…
She documents her frustrations and her process of maturing. She works at holding her temper, controlling her argumentative ways, being less judgmental, acting kinder to the other occupants, and thinking more positively. At times she succeeds, and other times she considers herself a failure. Anne Frank’s growth is demonstrated through the eloquence of her writings that become profound musings with tinges of bitter irony. Her writing provides a “universalizing of her experience of persecution to such a degree that it applies to all kinds of injustices in the world” (Bos). She demonstrates “self-development through the intersubjectivity of empathic interaction” (Brenner). Anne’s maturity by the conclusion of the diary is demonstrated through her incredibly reflective “contemplation of developmentally important issues” but readers tend to forget she was only a