Diary Of A Young Girl Anne Frank Analysis

The author of The Diary of A Young Girl is an adolescent Jewish girl named Anne Frank. Despite her many friends and “strings of boy friends”, she feels lonely and believes she does not have a true friend who she can share her feelings with. She writes, “I don’t seem to lack anything. But it’s the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more” (Frank 3). Anne Frank is quick-witted and talkative, which can get her into trouble sometimes. Because of her outspoken and loud personality, the adults criticize her often, and it really weighs her down. Like many other adolescents, she feels misunderstood and alone at times, but being in hiding causes her feeling of isolation to be even more heightened.

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She writes, “Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and wrong, I have my own ideas and principles… I feel quite independent of anyone” (Frank 178). Anne undergoes changes that all adolescents can relate to, including having to do with her independence, relationships with family members, and self-image. She begins to question other people’s opinions and starts to have more of her own ideas about life and politics. After many years in hiding, her spirit still shines through in her diary, and she mains an optimistic view of humanity and the world. All this she does while a war is going on and people of her religion are being …show more content…
These were Anne’s diary stories, and sketches. They were all that remained” (281). My inference is that Anne considered taking her diary with her after the Secret Annex was discovered. She either decided that the diary was more likely to be found if she left it in the Secret Annex, or was forbidden by the Gestapo to take it. The Gestapo may have searched her papers to look for information that might be valuable to them. It must have been very hard for her to part with her diary, Kitty, her only true “friend” during all those years in