The Diary of a Young Girl

The book ¨Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank¨ begins on her birthday, where she is just turning 13, and closes right after her fifteenth. In the beginning it's like any other girls diary, talking about crushes, school, and her friendships. Because anti-Semitic laws forced Jews into separate schools, she went to a special Jewish school with her older sister, Margot. Her family moved to the Netherlands years before the war to escape the persecution in Germany. After the Germans invaded the…

suffers want.” Proverbs 11:24. In “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank, there were people who displayed great selfishness and there were those who displayed generosity. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl whose family went into hiding during the Holocaust. She wrote in her diary about all the events that went on in the Secret Annex. These events define each individual and show various changes in difficult times. Anne Frank was the girl who wrote the diary, and who was mostly always…

was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family consisted of her father Otto Frank who she called Pim, her mother Edith Frank, and her sister Margot Frank. Anne’s full name was Anneliese Marie Frank, but she preferred just Anne. As a young girl Anne had a normal life and lived in an upper middle-class family. She moved to Amsterdam in 1933 where she attended Sixth Montessori School. She lived a perfectly normal childhood with plenty of friends. But that would all soon change.…

exactly what Anne Frank had to experience during the Holocaust. By reading The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, students are given the chance to follow Anne’s thoughts, actions, and feelings throughout her time in the Secret Annexe. Even though a good amount of students would say, “Anne Frank’s diary is so boring,” they should read it anyway because it teaches about Jewish life during the Holocaust, is about a girl our age, and includes real life situations and thoughts. Firstly, some…

Anne's diary begins on her thirteenth birthday, June 12, 1942, and ends shortly after her fifteenth. At the start of her diary, Anne describes typical girlhood experiences, writing about her friendships with other girls, she crushes on boys, and her academic performance at school. After the German occupation anti-Semitic laws forced Jews into separate schools so, Anne and her older sister, Margot, attended the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam. Some bits of news catch Anne's attention and make their…

Temi Aminu The Diary of A Young Girl Big Idea: Persecution of the Jews in World War II Essential Questions: 1.Why does religion has to be a big problem? 2.How does people protect other members from society? Summary: This book was a diary that was about the life of a young girl named Anne Frank. On Anne Frank thirteenth birthday her parents gave her a diary where she would confide all her secret thoughts. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who family was in danger, so they went…

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…

Zlata’s Diary Zlata’s diary is a nonfiction book by Zlata Flinicopeno. It sold approximately 80,000 copies and was written between 1991-1993. The author is an incredibly brave, observant, and kind eleven year old girl suffering through war and destruction. I chose to read this book due to it’s similarities to “The Diary of Anne Frank.” This story takes place in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. Throughout the book we see a child’s outlook on life. At first it seems to be just a little girl’s…

opinion, "Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. The Diary is, without doubt, a singular accomplishment. Its lucidity, honesty, and peircing insight are heartrendering enough to make ones self, look inwards. I was thirteen when I first read her Diary, and it opened my eyes, a direct link, to how it was for a young girl, just like myself, to go through something entirely different, an environmental change and upheavel, to be outcasts in your own country. The mere fact that she wrote this Diary,…

The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank I’ve chosen to read and write a response to The Diary of a Young Girl for a number of reasons, but the main reasons Anne Frank’s wartime diary stood out to me is because Anne Frank was a fairly normal and typical teenaged child, however unlike us she was unfortunate enough to be born in the soon to be war stricken era 1929, just before one of the worst events in history would soon occur, the rise of the Nazi’s, and the story is somewhat relevant to what is…