Anne Frank

Hidden in the attic of an office building, a teenage girl writes in her diary about her hardships. This diary later became the most famous written account of the Holocaust. In The Diary of a Young Girl written by Anne Frank, the author describes her life when hidden in the Secret Annex. Her story was so outstanding because of the character traits that she portrays in her diary. In the beginning of the book, the most obvious trait that Anne Frank depicts is how much she talks. On page 17, she stated how “Mr. Keesing, the old fogey who teaches math, was mad at me for the longest time because I talked so much. After several warnings, he assigned me extra homework. An essay on the subject ‘A Chatterbox.’” Because Anne talked so much in school, her teacher made her write an entire essay on how talkative she is. In the essay, “I [Anne] argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there’s not much you can do about inherited traits.” This statement convinced her
In the beginning of her diary, when she is still introducing herself, she wrote, “Now I’m back to the point that prompted me to keep a diary in the first place: I don’t have a friend. Let me put it more clearly, since no one will believe that a thirteen-year-old girl is completely alone in the world. And I’m not… No, on the surface I seem to have everything, except my one true friend.” The reason why Anne started to write in her diary is because doesn’t have a BFF. Later in the book, Anne continues to be lonely, but that is mainly because she is isolated from the rest of the world. Even though she is hiding with her family, she feels that she doesn’t belong with them.