Commentary on Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Essay

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

In the book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, starts off very happy. They are living in a house. Free from anything. The book starts out on Sunday, 14 June, 1942 on Anne Frank's 13 birthday. Living in a house in Holland, that the whole family love very much. Anne and her sister Margot Frank were very popular with the boys. When Anne and Margot went to the ice cream shop they didn't even need money to buy anything, the boys were more than welcome to find some of their spare change to buy both sisters some ice cream. Little do the Frank family know that their lives will change forever.

On Thursday, 9 July, 1942 the Frank Family are forced to leave their home and live in a attic of a store, for the safety of their lives. The Frank family will have their ups and downs for the next three years of their lives.

Mr. And Mrs. Frank, Anne and Margot are not the only ones living their three last years in the house they like the call "The Secret Annex." The Van Daan's move in also, that consist of Mr. And Mrs. Van Daan and their son Peter Van Daan, who also brought his cat Mouschi. Then later on a man by the name Mr. Dussel moves into the attic of the "Secret Annex." Throughout the book four characters come and go, they are Mr. Kraler, Koophius, Miep and Elli Vossen. They are workers of the store. They come and give the family's food and cloths. They are just trying to help the family's with there needs.

Now the two family's including Mr. Dussel have to manage to get along at all times. Well plan don't always turn out like there expected. Right off the bat the Frank's think of the Van Daan's to be rich, stuck up, and mean shelfish people. The Van Daan's expect everyone do to things for them. Anne thinks that Mrs. Van Daan is a flirt, and a jealous women. When you get further into the book you will read that the Frank's and Van Daan's do get along, well most of the time. Both the family's don't mind Mr. Dussel but they do get on there nerves.

As the book goes on. Anne Frank developes a very strong attraction towards Peter Van Daan, that soon turns to love. Anne, it turns out that she loves Peter, and she wishes that he thought of her in that way to. So Anne and Peter get to know each other better, little by little. Then they pretty much become a couple. They will admire each other and eyeball each other for a while. Then Anne lays in his arms and she falls in love that very moment. Then later on in the book they kiss. They kiss several times.

Anne talks with Peter about telling her father. Anne feels more secure with her father than with her mother. Anne thinks her mother doesn't understand her, and that Margot and her mother are more similar that Anne and her father are. Well Anne ends up telling her father about hers and Peter's relationship. Anne's father also referred to as Otto Frank only thought that she went upstairs to talk to Peter because she was lonely and needed someone her age to talk to. Anne walked away thinking that her dad understood in every way. But at dinner that night, Otto Frank didn't say one word to Anne, not one. And how upset Anne was she had the courage to write her father a note stating how strong she is and all the time she has been in the "Secret Annex" made her more dependent and how she could take care of herself. When Anne was finished writing the note she put in her father's coat pocket.

Anne and Mrs. Van Dann had not yet had one peaceful day together. Anne Still thinks of Mrs. Van Dann as a jealous women. Sometimes Anne and Mrs. Van Dan have there moments. Like sometimes Anne's mom gets disappointed that Anne likes to talk to Mrs. Van Daan about relationships and life more than Anne wants to talk to her own mother. But they all live on. '

There are a lot of break ins, in the barn and in the "Secret Annex." Anne and the other people living in the house live on for a little while. Everything pretty much goes on the same in the attic till the very end. In October 1944 the Germans found the family's that were hiding in the attic. Anne, Margot, and Mrs. Van Daan were with a group of the youngest and strongest women selected to be moved to Belson in Germany. Mrs. Frank was captured and took away alone, she refused to eat, and she was going crazy, Mrs. Frank died in the infirmary barracks at Auschwitz on January 6, 1945. Then Otto Frank, who was took the the men's camp, saw Mr. Van Daan taken of to be gassed. Mr. Dussel was sent back to Germany and died in the Neuengamme camp. When the SS abandoned Auschwitz, to escape the advancing Russians, they took Peter Van Daan with them on the winter march to the west, he was never heard from again. Otto Frank survived to be liberated my the Russians.

Mrs. Van Daan died at Belson, but no witness marked the date. Margot died at the end of February. Anne, who was already sick at the time, was not informed of her sister's death, but after a few days she sensed it, and soon afterwards Anne died.