Anne Frank Imagery

The two most dominant types of imagery used in “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank are visual imagery and kinesthetic imagery. Usually, this imagery is demonstrated when Anne describes seeing Jews being deported and feeling sympathy for them. For example, in the Thursday, November 19, 1942 diary entry, Anne observes that, “Evening after evening the green and gray army lorries trundle past. The Germans ring at every front door to inquire if there are any Jews living in the house. If there are, then the whole family has to go at once. If they don’t find any, they move onto the next house. No one has a chance of evading them unless one goes into hiding. Often, they go around with lists, and only ring when they know they can get a good haul. Sometimes they let them off for cash--so much per head. It seems like the slave hunts of the olden times. But it’s certainly no joke; it’s much too tragic for that. In the evenings when it’s …show more content…
Sometimes, she tries to keep a positive tone and be grateful for all she has, such as in Friday, July 21, 1944’s entry: “Now I am really getting hopeful, now things are going well at last. Yes, really, they’re going well! Super news!” (Frank 264). The usage of words like “hopeful” and “well” cause the reader to feel joyful for the Secret Annexe members. Other times, she is boiling with rage, or weeping her heart out, like when she writes about learning that Margot was called up by the S.S. She wrote, “When we were alone in our bedroom, Margot told me that the call-up was not for Daddy, but for her. I was more frightened than ever and began to cry. Margot was sixteen; would they really take girls away of that age alone?” (Frank 14) in Wednesday, July 8, 1942’s diary entry. When describing this event, Anne has a sorrowful tone, implied by words like “frightened” and “cry”. Her sorrowful tone makes the reader feel a gloomy