The Diary of a Young Girl

One of the themes of Anne Frank's diary is the loneliness and isolation of adolescence. Being a young adult can be hard at times, but it's harder still if you're forced to live in such a tense,...

At the beginning of their stay together, Anne and Peter were just two people who had to share the same living space. Their paths never overlapped at school because he was a few years older than her...

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl can be considered a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age story. Not only does Anne face the ups and downs of puberty and adolescence, but she also divulges her...

The relationship between Anne and her mother, Edith, is, for the most part, quite difficult. It's often the case that teenage girls will have difficult relationships with their mothers, but the...

As with many young girls of her age, Anne looks upon her diary as a close friend, someone in whom she can confide her innermost thoughts, fears, and desires. As the diary is more of a person than a...

Mr. Keesing, a school teacher who Anne describes as an "old fogey." Although a math teacher, he assigns her extra homework in the form of writing essays because she talks too much in class. She...

The most obvious similarity between Anne and Peter is their age. They're both at an age where young people at that time period began to explore their own sexuality and become interested in the...

In Anne Franke: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne and Mrs. van Daan have some difficulty getting along. Mrs. van Daan is materialistic and demanding. Sometimes she is hard to like. At the same time,...

I would be hesitant to reduce Anne Frank’s diary to one moral or to even a few morals. Anne Frank is one of the most iconic individuals in Western history and perhaps in the world. Yet remember,...

Rules played a critical part in the life of the Frank and van Daan families. If anybody were to discover them, they knew that it would mean being sent to a concentration camp and likely to their...

In Act 1, scene 5, the Franks and the Van Daans are celebrating Hanukkah. They are having a good time, and Anne makes them all laugh when she wears her lampshade hat. There is a brief quarrel over...

Anne Frank feels lonely and neglected throughout her time in the Secret Annex because she receives very little support from the others who are in hiding. Her older sister and her mother do not...

Initially, the relationship between Otto Frank and his daughter Anne is a strong one. Anne is very much "daddy's girl" and can do little wrong in his eyes. From her diary, the reader senses that...

In his fatherly wisdom, Mr. Frank gives Anne a diary for her birthday. With this little book of blank pages to be filled with her private yearnings and remarks, Anne has been afforded the friend...

Initially, Anne felt suspicion and impatience towards Peter Van Daan whom she believes is excessively lazy and self-centered. Because she must share a small space with him and both his and her...

Anne Frank's grandmother, who died of natural causes before the Frank family was forced into hiding in the annex, was extremely loved by Anne, who draws on fond memories of her grandmother to help...

Anne Frank and her family were not able to bring much with them when they went to the secret annex. The Franks brought with them only a few items. Otto Frank had prepared in advance to go into...

Of course, the diary itself is Anne's main hobby. She keeps it throughout the period in hiding, editing it frequently (especially in 1944) with the hope of publishing it after the war is over. She...

Dussel wanted a book about Mussolini and Miep almost got arrested. Mr. Dussel (real name Fritz Pfeffer) was not Anne’s favorite person when he joined the Annex. They were in hiding, and it was...

Aside from the overriding fear of being discovered by the Nazis, here are some problems that the residents of the annex faced: They are forced to keep the windows curtained and they could not make...

The very first thing that Anne packs as she prepares to go into hiding is her diary. With her diary she includes "hair curlers, handkerchiefs, schoolbooks, a comb, old letters". Anne realizes...

Anne is a typical pre-teen who wants to be treated more as an adult and less like a child. She is somewhat jealous of her older sister Margot, who in her eyes, has more priveleges. Mrs. Frank...

In Anne Frank's diary, written while she was in hiding between the dates of June 12, 1942, and August 4, 1944, she clearly states that the diary is her best friend and confidante. In fact, at the...

Anne Frank was a young woman who was filled with hope. She had many wishes and dreams for her future. Despite the isolation and fear of living in the Annex, Anne tried to keep a positive attitude...

Anne describes herself early in the diary as somewhat superficial. She says that she has few true friends because she cannot bring herself to talk about serious things with any of them. This, in...

Anne seems to get along well with her teachers. Her attitude at the beginning of her diary, though sprinkled with a bit of adolescent angst and annoyances, is generally good-natured and she seems...

As Anne Frank hides along with her family and others in the secret annex during the Holocaust, she shows great courage. From the summer of 1942 until the end of the diary in August of 1944, she...

"WC" stands for "water closet," which is another name for a bathroom. In Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, the living quarters in the Secret Annex are cramped. They live above a business; access...

Anne Frank is a very social girl who writes that her closest friends from the Jewish Secondary School are Lies Goosens an Jopie de Waal. On June 21, 1942, Anne writes about her classmates, worrying...

Anne Frank and her mother, Edith Frank, were often at odds because Anne believed that her mother preferred Anne's sister, Margot, over Anne. One example of this is when Anne says, "I feel myself...

Anne says she is a bundle of contradictions because she has a lighter side and a thoughtful side. Trapped in a secret room over her father’s office hiding from the Nazis, Anne Frank definitely has...

These two names represent different people, but it must be noted that Peter van Daan is a pseudonym for Peter van Pels. After hearing a radio announcement in 1944 stating that documents such as...

According to her diary, Anne Frank lived in Frankfurt, Germany and then moved to Holland with her family in 1933, when she was four years old. She is explicit that the family's reason for leaving...

Since Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a diary and not a novel, there are more than one climax in this book. An American poet, John Berryman, writes that this work is "the conversion of a...

Life for Anne, as for everyone in the annex, was stifling, claustrophobic, and scary. Everyone knew that, at any moment, their hiding place could be discovered. This was literally a matter of life...

When Anne Frank first begins writing her diary, she is a typical young teenager who wants all of the attention she can get. She has big plans for becoming an actress or a singer or anything that...

Being bisexual means having sexual and romantic thoughts about more than one gender. Sexuality is not something that needs to be true for someone's entire life in order to be valid or true. For...

The following are three significant events that occur in The Diary of a Young Girl between Monday, April 3, 1944 and Tuesday, August 1, 1944: 1) On Tuesday, April 11, 1944, the warehouse which...

This is part of Anne Frank's final diary entry only a few days before she and her family were betrayed and deported to concentration camps. In it, Anne reveals and describes the two sides to...

On Friday, September 5, 1942, Anne Frank states that Pim is the nickname she uses for her father, Otto Frank. Anne is very close to her father, holding him in high esteem, unlike many of the other...

In Act One of "The Diary of Anne Frank," in addition to the plot development which tells the story of Anne Frank and her companions as they hide from the Nazis in German-occupied Holland, there are...

Mr. Van Daan was definitely not the most endearing character in the apartment; if I had been Mr. Frank, I would have been really irritated by Van Daan's sense of entitlement. Mr. Frank did not...

I almost got the impression that Anne was jealous of her mother being the center of her father's attention. The "daddy's girl" syndrome seemed to fit Anne well. I actually felt sorry for her mother...

The most important incidents happen after the diary stops. It ends eerily, and we know what happened next. When Anne stops writing, we know it means that their two year struggle to evade the...

The third burglary in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl happens on Sunday, 9 April 1944, but the diary entry is dated Tuesday, 11 April 1944. At 9:30 p.m., Peter quietly informs Mr. Frank that...

"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" contains the notes that Anne made to her "Dearest Kitty" (the name she gives to her diary) when her family has no choice but to go into hiding to escape...

Anne Frank wrote in her diary that war was the fault of everyone—not just "politicians and capitalists"; she believed that wars were inevitable. Despite this, Anne still believed that people were...

Anne's descriptions of Mrs. van Daan are, for the vast majority of her diary, extremely unflattering. She generally refers to Mrs. van Daan as selfish, stupid, egotistical, continually pessimistic,...

During the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany during World War II, the Jewish residents of the Netherlands faced a unique set of circumstances, ultimate leading to the reduction of the...

This is a very interesting question. I think that her overall sense of positivism and courage underscores human beings' capacity to endure and suffer through challenging times with the hope of...