Character sketch of Anne Frank from chapter The Diary of Anne Frank
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Anne was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt Germany. She was 4 years old when her father moved to Holland. She is very intelligent and perceptive and she wanted to become a writer. Anne is a young teenage girl who was caught in the anti-Semitic social conditions of the Second World War.Anne had got a very good and confident friend in the form of a diary in which she could share all her feelings. She use to share everything with her diary. She was playful and comical but with the serious side. She became famous through her diary which later became a book. She was grown up from an innocent, tempestuous,somewhat pretty teenage girl to an empathetic and sensitive thinker at age fifteen. Although she has little political consciousness at the beginning of the diary she grows to the question anti-Semitism at the point of war.During her time in the annex she suffers from boredom, despair and the petty persecution of those around her.
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Anne Frank, in full Annelies Marie Frank, (born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died February/March 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover), Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s two years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war literature.
Early in the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, Anne’s father, Otto Frank (1889–1980), a German businessman, took his wife and two daughters to live in Amsterdam. In 1941, after German forces occupied the Netherlands, Anne was compelled to transfer from a public school to a Jewish one. On June 12, 1942, she received a red-and-white plaid diary for her 13th birthday. That day she began writing in the book: “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”