Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl narrates the emotional journey of adolescent Anne Frank during World War II. The diary allows insight into the changes Anne went through during the war after going into hiding to avoid persecution. Over the course of her time in hiding she develops in maturity, and uses her diary to voice her innermost thoughts and desires and the readers learn what it was like living in those conditions from a perspective during the time.
Anne’s diary begins on her thirteenth birthday. We are introduced to Anne: a young girl with a normal life for a girl of her age. She values the same things as any girls: she loves being with her friends, enjoys school and already has established a passion for writing which she expresses …show more content…
She reflects on her own changes from when she began the diary, to her time in the Annex. Her voice has changed; she writes less about trivial matters and writes more about her innermost thoughts and dreams. She begins to write less about the past, and discusses her future; her dreams and aspirations. She wants to become a writer, and after hearing _____’s proposition _________, particularly diaries and journals, Anne began editing her diary. The tone changes to become more oriented towards a reading audience rather than her own experiences. She comes to terms with the atrocities of the Germans to the Jews and her constant fear that she may not make it to the end of the war. She wants a future, and she is a hopeful optimist. Reader’s can relate to her optimism, and her dreams and aspiration make her feel all the more real and truly shows how much she’s matured. “It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” Her awareness of human nature grows; her opinions of good and evil, greed and generosity begin to be integrated into her writings as she tries to understand the people around her as well as herself. She struggles with the concept of how she can be a good person despite the challenges she faces. She discovers that not only she has an inner self, but so does everybody else, but she still desires to share her inner self with others. “I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I
Anne’s diary begins on her thirteenth birthday. We are introduced to Anne: a young girl with a normal life for a girl of her age. She values the same things as any girls: she loves being with her friends, enjoys school and already has established a passion for writing which she expresses …show more content…
She reflects on her own changes from when she began the diary, to her time in the Annex. Her voice has changed; she writes less about trivial matters and writes more about her innermost thoughts and dreams. She begins to write less about the past, and discusses her future; her dreams and aspirations. She wants to become a writer, and after hearing _____’s proposition _________, particularly diaries and journals, Anne began editing her diary. The tone changes to become more oriented towards a reading audience rather than her own experiences. She comes to terms with the atrocities of the Germans to the Jews and her constant fear that she may not make it to the end of the war. She wants a future, and she is a hopeful optimist. Reader’s can relate to her optimism, and her dreams and aspiration make her feel all the more real and truly shows how much she’s matured. “It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” Her awareness of human nature grows; her opinions of good and evil, greed and generosity begin to be integrated into her writings as she tries to understand the people around her as well as herself. She struggles with the concept of how she can be a good person despite the challenges she faces. She discovers that not only she has an inner self, but so does everybody else, but she still desires to share her inner self with others. “I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I