Anne Frank For the CSET

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describes fairly typical girlhood experiences, writing about her friendships with other girls, her crushes on boys, and her academic performance at school.

Anne Frank often writes about her feelings of isolation and loneliness. She has difficult relationships with the adults in the annex, especially her mother, whom she considers lacking in love and affection. She adores her father.

Anne Frank matures throughout the course of her diary entries, moving from detailed accounts of basic activities to deeper, more profound thoughts about humanity and her own personal nature. She finds it difficult to understand why the Jews are being singled out and persecuted. Anne also confronts her own identity. Though she considers herself to be German, her German citizenship has been revoked, and though she calls Holland her home, many of the Dutch have turned against the Jews.

During the two years recorded in her diary, Anne Frank deals with confinement and deprivation, as well as the complicated and difficult issues of growing up in the brutal circumstances of the Holocaust. Her diary describes a struggle to define herself within this climate of oppression. Anne’s diary ends without comment on August 1, 1944. Ann Frank and her family is betrayed to the Nazis and arrested on August 4, 1944.


Major Characters

Anne Frank – The author of the diary. Anne dies of typhus in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in late February or early March of 1945.

Margot Frank – Anne’s older sister. She dies of typhus in the concentration camp a few days before Anne does.

Otto Frank – Anne’s father. Otto is the only member of the family to survive the war, and he lives until 1980.

Edith Frank – Anne’s mother. Edith dies of hunger and exhaustion in the concentration camp at Auschwitz in January 1945.

Mr. van Daan – The father of the family that hides in the annex along with the Franks. He dies

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