Anne starts her diary by talking about the point that brought her to keep a diary. She always missed a best friend to whom she could tell. So, she decided to treat her diary as her best friend. She begins by giving a short sketch of her life. She matures of writing diary entries. When she gets punished by her teacher repeatedly and she completes even the extra homework …show more content…
Near the end of her diary she talks about how she will be able to return to school in September or October after the country has been saved. Anne's feelings about the annex continually change. Most of the time Anne realizes that she and her family are very fortunate to have the annex as a place to hide. She values her kindness and goodness of her father's non-jewish friends who are willing to risk their safety to provide Anne's family with shelter, food, and supplies. Though, Anne often complains about the physical and mental emotions of the annex and the captivity of it bothers her. She misses being able to see the nature, the sky, and the feeling that she has that she won't be able to explore the world. Anne must live with eight other people under one roof with very severe conditions that come along with it. She eats rotten potatoes day after day and lives in constant fear that her family will be found. Most of all, she feels lonely since the only thing that she has close as friends are Peter and her diary. When Anne compares her poor life to the freedom of the non-Jewish Dutch children. A freedom that she took and took it for granted which she feels mad about doing that. When she thinks about her Jewish friends and family members who have probably been arrested and sent to concentration camps along with her friend …show more content…
The only thing that Anne will actually reveal her feelings to is by writing in her diary. She faces things through the difficult obstacles that she has been through and on top of the she is trying her best to hide from the Germans so that she can feel that freedom once again. Now that Anne is maturing she finally realizes that if her and her family didn't the the ¨Secret Annex” they would probably be at one of those concentration camps hoping and praying that they get to live another day. WIth Anne and her family hiding she is missing her freedom. She looks back at all the things that she took for granted. Thus, Anne overcame the worst thing that could ever happen and now that I've read this book I don't take my freedom for granted because you never know what is going to