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Anne's Diary Analysis

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Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who had gone into hiding during World War 2, and the Holocaust. Anne and her family were able to hide for roughly two years in the Secret Annex. Throughout those years that they were hidden, Anne recorded most of what happened during that time. Then in 1944 they were found by the Green Police and taken to concentration camps. A year or two after they got to the concentration camps, everyone who lived in the Secret Annex had died, except for Otto Frank (Anne's father). He then later published Anne's diary. At the end of Anne's diary, she had stated, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." I believe that Anne had wrote this because one, she and her father were really close and he always taught her to find the good in people/things rather than point out their flaws. Two, Anne was extremely optimistic, she always kept in her mind that they would survive the war and all live together once they left. Furthermore, Anne was also very forgiving to anyone she …show more content…

Anne had stated on page 290, lines 637-641, "You know the way I'm going to think of it here? I'm going to think of it as a boarding house. A very peculiar summer boarding house." In the middle of the play, they were all talking about what they would do first once they left the Annex, and Anne couldn't even think of what to do first. She had so many different things that she could, but she couldn't think of just one to do first. Anne wanted to go to the movies and ride her bike, or just take a nice long hot bath at home. So, she always had many different thoughts running through her mind. Also, Anne wanted to dance with Peter, because she believed that when they got out that they would all forget how to dance the right way. Peter had declined her request, so Anne began to dance with her sister Margot as a way to make sure they would forget how to

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