Anne is a talented girl with a love for learning, only for the light of a promising future. She is able to convey her thoughts, emotions, and the antics of the Secret Annex in a way that is personable and allows for the reader to feel as if they are hiding with her back between the time when she started writing until the abrupt end. Her writing does not sell short the different personalities living in such a small space. Each person feels so alive, it is as if they all took turns writing in her diary. Without Kitty, her diary, we may have never known her talent, her growth into a young adult, or even a concrete timeline of World War II as it was progressing. Because of her being forced into hiding, we are able to feel on edge with her while
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The creation and compiling of information in the “Cady’s Life” document, edited by Gerrold van der Stroom, not only provides prior information pertaining to the stories and sketches created by Anne, but dates them, creating something similar to a writing portfolio. Reading one of the first pieces she has done with the date documented, either The Dentist (December 8, 1942) or Sausage Day (December 10, 1942), and comparing it to one of the final dated pieces, My First Day at the Lyceum, A Biology Class (both pieces are dated August 11, 1943), or A Math Class (August 12, 1943), you can clearly see the use of more adult language. In A Math Class, she uses words like malady or loggerheads and compared to The Dentist, the words within it are ones that I associate with much simpler vocabulary, like shenanigans or “...roared with laughter” (Frank …show more content…
Not only because of the isolation and deprivation of things like going to school or socializing with people her own age, her personality was one that valued enrichment and bettering oneself by continuing learning outside of the classroom. Based on experiences with people prior to going into hiding, along with interactions within the Annex influences how she portrays what she sees. Anne Frank’s writing progressively gets more defined the longer her stay in the Annex. There is a beautiful juxtaposition between Anne’s writing, along with her personal growth, and the confined space she is involuntarily subjected to. Within her journal, she speaks of the impending danger she feels around her while locked up inside in an entry for November 8,
The creation and compiling of information in the “Cady’s Life” document, edited by Gerrold van der Stroom, not only provides prior information pertaining to the stories and sketches created by Anne, but dates them, creating something similar to a writing portfolio. Reading one of the first pieces she has done with the date documented, either The Dentist (December 8, 1942) or Sausage Day (December 10, 1942), and comparing it to one of the final dated pieces, My First Day at the Lyceum, A Biology Class (both pieces are dated August 11, 1943), or A Math Class (August 12, 1943), you can clearly see the use of more adult language. In A Math Class, she uses words like malady or loggerheads and compared to The Dentist, the words within it are ones that I associate with much simpler vocabulary, like shenanigans or “...roared with laughter” (Frank …show more content…
Not only because of the isolation and deprivation of things like going to school or socializing with people her own age, her personality was one that valued enrichment and bettering oneself by continuing learning outside of the classroom. Based on experiences with people prior to going into hiding, along with interactions within the Annex influences how she portrays what she sees. Anne Frank’s writing progressively gets more defined the longer her stay in the Annex. There is a beautiful juxtaposition between Anne’s writing, along with her personal growth, and the confined space she is involuntarily subjected to. Within her journal, she speaks of the impending danger she feels around her while locked up inside in an entry for November 8,