Every story has a message hidden between the lines, a theme that can help us out in the real world. Themes are meant to serve a huge purpose in our lives. They are meant to help us learn from our mistakes or chase our dreams. In The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, there are three important themes that stand out. Isolation, identity, and family all are very important and have an effect on Anne and the story.
Being isolated from the world can be pretty scary. In The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne feels isolated and cut off from her family and the other members of the Secret Annex, even while the group is crammed together. In the quote, “Added to this misery there is another, but of a purely personal kind; and it pales into insignificance beside …show more content…
Now I either think about unhappy things, or about myself. And at long last I have made the discovery that Daddy, although he’s such a darling, still cannot take the place of my entire little world bygone days.” (Frank, 55) Anne realizes that she is very excluded from her family and without the comfort of her old friends, she feels trapped and alone. She explains this in the quote, “How fortunate we are here, so well cared for and undisturbed. We wouldn’t have to worry about all this misery were it not that we are so anxious about all those dear to us whom we can no longer help. I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. All because …show more content…
Over and over again, she asks herself questions about the type of person she is. While she is hiding in the Annex, she wishes for her old identity of a girl who didn’t have a care in the world. However, she quickly regrets writing what she did and states that she is being ungrateful. As shown, “‘Himmelhoch jauchzend und zum Tode betrubt’ certainly fits here. I am ‘Himmelhoch jauchzend’ if I only think how lucky we are here compared with other Jewish children, and ‘zum Tode betrubt’ comes over me when, as happened today, for example, Mrs. Koophuis comes and tells us about her daughter Corry’s hockey club, canoe trips, theatrical performances, and friends. I don’t think I’m jealous of Corry, but I couldn’t help feeling a great longing to have lots of fun myself for once, and to laugh until my tummy ached. Especially at this time of the year with all the holidays for Christmas and the New Year, and we are stuck here like outcasts. Still, I really ought to not write this, because it seems ungrateful and I’ve certainly been exaggerating. But still, whatever you think of me, I can’t keep everything to myself, so I’ll remind you of my opening words-’Paper is patient.’” (Frank, 123) When Anne wrote The Diary of a Young Girl, she was living in the middle of the Holocaust. During that time period, Jews were being identified as separate, different, and less than
Being isolated from the world can be pretty scary. In The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne feels isolated and cut off from her family and the other members of the Secret Annex, even while the group is crammed together. In the quote, “Added to this misery there is another, but of a purely personal kind; and it pales into insignificance beside …show more content…
Now I either think about unhappy things, or about myself. And at long last I have made the discovery that Daddy, although he’s such a darling, still cannot take the place of my entire little world bygone days.” (Frank, 55) Anne realizes that she is very excluded from her family and without the comfort of her old friends, she feels trapped and alone. She explains this in the quote, “How fortunate we are here, so well cared for and undisturbed. We wouldn’t have to worry about all this misery were it not that we are so anxious about all those dear to us whom we can no longer help. I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. All because …show more content…
Over and over again, she asks herself questions about the type of person she is. While she is hiding in the Annex, she wishes for her old identity of a girl who didn’t have a care in the world. However, she quickly regrets writing what she did and states that she is being ungrateful. As shown, “‘Himmelhoch jauchzend und zum Tode betrubt’ certainly fits here. I am ‘Himmelhoch jauchzend’ if I only think how lucky we are here compared with other Jewish children, and ‘zum Tode betrubt’ comes over me when, as happened today, for example, Mrs. Koophuis comes and tells us about her daughter Corry’s hockey club, canoe trips, theatrical performances, and friends. I don’t think I’m jealous of Corry, but I couldn’t help feeling a great longing to have lots of fun myself for once, and to laugh until my tummy ached. Especially at this time of the year with all the holidays for Christmas and the New Year, and we are stuck here like outcasts. Still, I really ought to not write this, because it seems ungrateful and I’ve certainly been exaggerating. But still, whatever you think of me, I can’t keep everything to myself, so I’ll remind you of my opening words-’Paper is patient.’” (Frank, 123) When Anne wrote The Diary of a Young Girl, she was living in the middle of the Holocaust. During that time period, Jews were being identified as separate, different, and less than