Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who was living in Holland during World War II. She had a sister named Margot, a mother, and a father. Being a Jew, she was in hiding for 2 and a half years in a little set of rooms she called the “Secret Annexe.” She died when she was 15 in March of 1945 in Bergen-Belsen, a couple weeks before the English breached the camp. Even though she died, her thoughts, memories, and detailed descriptions of life during World War II were published by her father, Otto Frank.
Anne Frank’s diary starts on June 14, 1942, two days after her birthday. It quickly becomes apparent that Anne is rather spoiled. She has boys tripping over her feet, she gets wonderful birthday presents, she has tons of …show more content…
She realizes her hotheadedness towards her mother after reading old diary entries and feels guilty about making her cry She starts thinking in a much more philosophical way about the world and begins accepting her fate in Secret Annexe. This is also the time when Anne started falling in love with Peter Van Daan and Peter and Petel, her old love, became one. Peter and Anne start becoming good friends and she really needs the affection. She describes what her hobbies and pastimes are for when she is very bored. They include things such as researching family trees and learning a lot about movie stars. Anne also explains how “invasion fever” is spreading rapidly around …show more content…
She adds such philosophical meaning to her entries and you can really feel her pain. I pity her and what she had to go through. I really enjoyed the book also because of how much it describes living during World War II as a Jew and how personal it was. It explained Anne’s feelings, which were probably similar to other girls in hiding, and the fright. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who wanted to learn about the inside view of World War II or wanted to learn about Anne Frank