Anne Frank Sparknotes

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Introduction The book “Anne Frank: The Diary of Young Girl” is an autobiography by Anne Frank itself, a Jewish girl. In this diary, she writes about her deepest thoughts, feelings, how they hid to escape Hitler’s anti-Jewish laws and genocidal desires and how the war affected the lives of the nation. The story made by Anne Frank is summarized below.

Summary Anne Frank’s story starts when she receives a diary from her parents on her thirteenth birthday. Excited like anyone who receives a gift on their birthday, she writes her personal thoughts, experiences and feelings. Anne addresses it to “Kitty” as if she was a talking to her best friend, a true friend. She talked about her personal life, her friendship with other girls, her boy crushes and her performance at school. However, like all the other odds, everything changes after a month. On September 1st of 1939, Germany invades Poland and that’s where World War II starts. As Jews, they had to go hide for the fear for their lives. Nazis were gathering all Jews in concentration camps and they had no choice rather than hiding. With another family, the Van Daan and an acquaintance, Mr. Dussel, they moved into a secret annex which was behind a swinging bookcase where Otto, Anne’s father works above. Employees from Otto’s firm helped …show more content…

Dussel hid quietly so they wouldn’t get caught. Fortunately, there were a lot of books to read and a radio to keep them out of boredom. Anne still writes occurrences happening during the war. She widens her learning in politics and literature; she exerts effort in studying and writing during the time of hiding especially when she heard from the cabinet minister that he would put together personal accounts such as letters and diaries about the war. Unfortunately, at the near end of her diary, she struggles to fight oppression and deals with deprivation and confinement since her adolescence was taken from her due to the

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