summary of the diary of a young girl by anne frank
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The Diary Of A Young Girl is the real diary of a teenage girl that begins on Anne’s 13th birthday (12 June 1942) when she gets a diary. It tells the story of her family who live in Frankfurt, Germany and suddenly have to go into hiding as a result of Hitler and the Nazi Party’s treatment of Jews in Europe during the second world war. They escape to Amsterdam where they go into hiding with other Jews. The diary ends suddenly on 1 August 1944.
There are many important messages in this book, but the most important message is that all people have the right to live in freedom. Anne’s story shows us that just because people may be a different religion or race, doesn’t mean that they should be treated differently. The terrible treatment of Jewish people during the war has shown this. Her diary shows us things that people don’t think about now, for example how every day the people in hiding worried about maybe being found and punished.
Anne Frank
I liked that Anne was a really happy and cheerful person even though she and her family were in an awful situation. Anne enjoyed writing and describing others. She was talkative and inquisitive and could be selfish. She was a typical teenage girl and she didn’t always understand how difficult life was for her mother and the other adults around her. She commented on the people who shared their hiding space. Sometimes this wasn’t very nice, but it shows how everybody’s life was challenging because they had to be quiet and not bring attention to themselves.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in reading historical, war or mystery books as it is so interesting. This book would be suitable for people aged ten upwards since it is very sad in places.
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SUMMARY
Anne Frank’s parents give her a diary on her thirteenth birthday. She is excited. She names it ‘Kitty’. At last, she has found something or someone to confide all her secret thoughts in. She is generally misunderstood by everyone she knows. At least, Anne thinks so. So she starts writing her diary. She writes about her school, her grades, friends and boys at the school. Within a month, she feels as if the whole life has undergone a sea-change.
During the Second World War, Holland is overrun and occupied by the Nazi Germany. One day, Nazi police sent a call-up notice to her sister Margot. It meant her deportation to a concentration camp. The Frank-family fears for their lives. Anne and her family go into hiding. They move into a little section of her father’s office building. This portion is walled off and hidden behind a swinging book-case.
The secret annexe is going to be the hiding place of Anne’s family and four others for the next two years. Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son Peter share the place with the Franks. Later on, Mr. Dussel, an elderly dentist also moves in. Anne has to share her bedroom with him. She resents constantly but without any success. Anne’s adolescence doesn’t find time and space to bloom naturally. She is shut up in a hole hidden from the outside world. She is cooped up in tiny rooms. The day is spent in ‘tiptoeing around’ and doing nothing worthwhile.
The bombs and gunfire shell-shock the young girl at night. Anne is very fond of reading. Fortunately, the Franks have ‘tons of reading material and a radio-set’. It helps not only in keeping herself gainfully engaged during her hide but also enriches her mind. She is enlightened about literature, history and the contemporary politics. It’s impossible that a girl of her age may never think about love. We see a real change coming in Anne when she begins hanging out in the attic with Peter Van Daan. It is around this time when her imagination takes wings. She dreams about a boy she was in love with. He was another Peter, Peter Schiff. She now becomes more conscious of her being a ‘girl’ and Peter Van Daan as a ‘boy’. She wants him to be sensitive and caring and does find him so sometimes. They talk about everything, including sex. It takes sometime when their relationship changes. Their youthful passions turn into a deep friendship. They try to give comfort and peace to each other in such hard and trying times.