Annex Mr Frank Character Analysis

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She was Dutch woman of German-Jewish origin and was youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank. In her work of the written diary, she is unambiguously precocious, charming and intelligent, and retained her cheerfulness and even during most testing and difficult of circumstances. Over the course of two years, she is transformed from spoiled and naive girl of thirteen into thoughtful and self-aware woman of fifteen. She did not have sufficient political acumen and knowledge, but becomes inquisitive to the length of asking the reasons and logic about anti-Semitism. While whole point of war does not make any sense to her at all. She finds it frustrating to see people around her persecuted, but was able to accommodate and adapt herself in the condition of hopelessness and despair, which is testament of her character at such a young age.
It is mind boggling to see how girl of that age was able to find with herself wealth of qualities. After being found out she was taken to concentration camp, where she dies three days before her sixteenth birthday.
Her character changes throughout time passed in Annex, there can be quoted many incidents which can be said to have impacted everyone at the
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Frank is one of the interesting characters who is always calm, composed and sedate even at the time when German forces came over take all of them to the concentration camp. It would not be wrong to assume him as the leader of the lots owing to his strength of the character (prezi.com, 2016). There was stark contrast between father and mother of the Ann. Mr. Frank as it has been discussed was a born leader who never seems to lose his temper. Unlike Mrs. Ann who gets depressed when Ann does not talk to her in the manner that he want her to and happens to completely left out of the picture. Thought most of times she is very well talking to rest of the people. Ann somehow feels that her mother does not have sufficient understanding of her mind as to what she feels in on varying

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