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Anne Frank

Anne Frank The events recounted in Anne Frank’s Diary took place during World War 11. By 1933, the strongest party in Germany had gained ultimate power with Hitler under their command. Hitler was Germany’s dictator who spread his gospel of racial hatred through politics. While poverty and unemployment were at an all time high he launched a campaign of anti-Semitism. Hitler’s main target was the Jews, claiming that they were “racially inferior.” He developed an idea of a Master Aryan Race, the need to rid Germany of “inferior people”, such as Jews and Gypsies, and the need to expand Germany’s borders. In doing this, he caused many Jews to abandoned their homes and go into total isolation. The Frank family was one of many who endured Hitler's wrath. The Diary of Anne Frank is about a little girl who tells her story of struggle and courage through her diary. On Anne’s thirteenth birthday she received various presents, but the present that she cherished the most was her diary that she named “Kitty”. The Diary of Anne Frank, captures Anne’s feelings, emotions, thoughts, and events that surrounded her. On May 10, 1940 the German Army invaded the Netherlands, where Anne and her family lived. The invasion caused them to go into secret hiding, because of fear of their life. This was the first measure in the campaign of persecution against the Jews of the Netherlands. A short phrase captures Anne’s emotions about this situation; “Anti-Jewish decrees followed each other in quick succession. Jews must wear yellow star, Jews must hand in their bicycles, Jew are banned from trams and are forbidden to drive. Jews must be indoor by eight o’clock and cannot even sit in their own gardens after hour. Jews may not take part in any public sports. Jews may not visit Christians. Our freedom was strictly limited. Yet things were bearable.” Even though things were tough, Anne always tried to look for the good things in situations and make the best of them. After the invasion the Frank family went into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” with the help of Mr. Franks colleagues. This is where her two-year journey of fear begins for Anne. I am sure that such repression and fear of life would make almost any teenager completely depressed and miserable. However, Anne managed to keep her hope for a better tomorrow and managed to do well. Her time in seclusion was like a prison sentence; she doesn't get any privileges and has minimal communication with peers of her age. The only thing she had to do was study and write in her diary. She never goes outside and always has to worry about if their ever going to be discovered and killed. The Frank Family wasn’t the only ones that went into hiding in the “Secret Annexe”, also the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel, making a total number of eight. Their survival in the “Secret Annexe” was dependent on their helpers who brought them food, news from the outside, and books. The first part of the diary starts with her being a regular girl having fun and turns into a girl going into hiding with seven other people. In addition, she has to deal with relation problems with her mom, sister, and the people she is in hiding with. The problems begin when eight people are confined in a small area and everybody begins to irritate and annoy one another. Anne was especially concerned with herself and with her attitude towards the others in the group. She's mainly concerned with her mother who always treats her like baby. Mr. Frank tires to ease the quarrels between them by telling Anne to help out more around the house, but Anne stubbornly declines preferring to concentrate more on her studies. She especially gets plenty of confrontations with Mrs. Van Daan who thinks she is a spoiled little girl. Mrs. Van Daan constantly tells Anne’s father, “ If Anne were my daughter.” Anne’s respond to this in her diary was, “Thank heavens I’m not!” Of course their was also painful moments in which she let her temper blurt out and told others exactly what she thought of them. It quotes in her diary on April 2, 1943: “They expect me to apologize: but this is something I can’t apologize for because I spoke the truth and Mummy will have to know it sooner or later anyway.” In the second part of the diary, the story takes a drastic change from a little girl to a more grown and matured Anne. She is able to understand her problems rather than to argue with them. During her isolation Anne did not waste time, she builds up her writing skills and her intelligence as well. She also discovers that she has fallen in love with Peter. Anne finally found someone to share her emotions with, but by reading the diary it seems he was a disappointment to her. At first, Anne isn't very fond of him she ignores him and tries to avoid him in everyway, but later she begins to develop a strong warming relationship towards him. They begin to share secrets and share their feelings with each other. The Peter that Anne wanted never really existed only in her imagination. On July 15, 1944: “I created an image of him in my mind. I needed a living person to whom I could pour out my heart; I wanted a friend who’d help to put me on the right road. I achieved what I wanted.” The most important thing that Anne achieved in this relationship was able to find somebody to share her emotions with. On August 4,1944 the allies were getting closer to the Dutch border. A German policeman entered the office of Otto Frank and located the attic and quickly arrested them. It seemed that the SS sergeant knew exactly where to go: the bookcase. It was clear that betrayal was involved in their capture. While the arrest was taking place the men looked around for things of interest to take, but they overlooked Anne’s diary that lay there like worthless papers on the ground. All the members of the “Secret Annexe” perished during the reign of the Nazis, except Mr. Frank. Minutes before the Frank’s were captured in their hiding place Anne wrote in her diary, “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” How could a young girl who endured so much pain say such a thing? The answer is in the story of her undying courage and hope that they would live through this dilemma. Anne made a very powerful statement in her last words in her diary. “ To truly believe such a thing after being abused by the Nazis is quite remarkable, indeed. I am sure that most people, including myself, would have thought that the world was completely corrupt and humans were naturally cruel if they’d had gone through such times.” She didn't feel hatred towards her abusers, but sympathy because they stooped so low and were so ignorant to see what they were doing. Although Anne had not yet been to a concentration camp when she wrote her last lines, she still feared the Nazis and the horrible fate that so many other Jews were facing at the time. If Anne could have still written in her diary when she was in the concentration camp, their would of have been no doubt that she still would of possessed the same type of compassion towards others that she had in the beginning. Anne’s cheerfulness spirit stayed with her to the end. She didn't let anything or anyone bring her hopes down. Even when she was in the concentration camp, people still recalled her cheerfulness attitude. One person recalls, “ She was very pallid at first, but there was something so intensely attractive about her frailty and her expressive face.” Despite what was going on around her, she tried to keep a joyful attitude at Westerbork. Shortly after Anne’s sister died of typhus, Anne sensed something was wrong with herself and passed away peacefully. If she had survived a few more days she would have been there for the liberation of the concentration camp. The Diary of Anne Frank is wonderfully well presented, not losing the interest of the reader. Each part of the diary helps me understand the terrible hardships that she faced and how she overcame her problems. Even though she was young, she still had a very effective style of writing to inform her readers. This book shows us the ignorance of what Hitler caused thinking that one race is “racially inferior” to another. The Diary of Anne Frank is a superb book to read to find out about the struggle and hardships that that the Jews had to face during World War 11. It showed me that even the Nazis could not diminish the hope and happiness of a fourteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank. Bibliography:

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