Why did anne decide to write a diary? What role did the diary play in her life? (From The Diary Of A Young Girl) In about 200-250 words
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Diary writing is a profound characteristic of famous people and a skill which is easy to learn but very difficult to master.
Anne’s father Otto gave her a diary as a present on her 13th birthday, shortly before her family went into hiding, and she immediately took to writing in it often, as many young girls did. Writing in the diary was a great comfort to her, and would’ve been a sensible way to pass the time in the secret annex for a girl who had little else to do.Being a thirteen year old girl, Anne wrote her diary for the same reasons any adolescent girl might write a diary. She wanted to chronicle her feelings and make sense of the world around her. Of course Anne was living in a pressure cooker. Hiding from Nazis with so many people in a small annex was not easy. Ann used her diary as a therapy to cope with not only teenaged angst but to keep perspective and her sanity in such a close environment. The original diary wasn't to just "Kitty" but to many pseudonyms. The diary became a sounding board for Anne and, eventually, a passionate piece of historic evidence for the world.
The Dutch minister of education—then in exile in London—advocated for people to keep war diaries, inspiring Anne to both continue to write in earnest and edit her diaries with the intent to publish them as a book (The Secret Annex), the material of which was adapted following her death into The Diary of Anne Frank.
“The Diary of a Young Girl” is a book which has been written by a Dutch girl who has been hiding for four years with her family. She had written about the two years of her life in the Netherlands during their escape from the Nazi execution. It was during that time that the Franks were forced into hiding after the Germans invaded the Netherlands.