The events recounted in Anne Frank Essays Diary took place during World War 11. By 1933, the strongest party in Germany had gained ultimate power with Hitler under their command. Hitler was Germanys dictator who spread his gospel of racial hatred through politics. While poverty and unemployment were at an all time high he launched a campaign of anti-Semitism.
Hitlers main target was the Jews, claiming that they were racially inferior. He developed an idea of a Master Aryan Race, the need to rid Germany of inferior people, such as Jews and Gypsies, and the need to expand Germanys borders. In doing this, he caused many Jews to abandoned their homes and go into total isolation. The Frank family was one of many who endured Hitler’s wrath. The Diary of Anne Frank is about a little girl who tells her story of struggle and courage through her diary. On Annes thirteenth birthday she received various presents, but the present that she cherished the most was her diary that she named Kitty.
The Diary of Anne Frank, captures Annes feelings, emotions, thoughts, and events that surrounded her. On May 10, 1940 the German Army invaded the Netherlands, where Anne and her family lived. The invasion caused them to go into secret hiding, because of fear of their life. This was the first measure in the campaign of persecution against the Jews of the Netherlands. A short phrase captures Annes emotions about this situation; Anti-Jewish decrees followed each other in quick succession. Jews must wear yellow star, Jews must hand in their bicycles, Jew are banned from trams and are forbidden to drive.
Jews must be indoor by eight oclock and cannot even sit in their own gardens after hour. Jews may not take part in any public sports. Jews may not visit Christians. Our freedom was strictly limited. Yet things were bearable.
Even though things were tough, Anne always tried to look for the good things in situations and make the best of them. After the invasion the Frank family went into hiding in the Secret Annexe with the help of Mr. Franks colleagues. This is where her two-year journey of fear begins for Anne. I am sure that such repression and fear of life would make almost any teenager completely depressed and miserable.
However, Anne managed to keep her hope for a better tomorrow and managed to do well. Her time in seclusion was like a prison sentence; she doesn’t get any privileges and has minimal communication with peers of her age. The only thing she had to do was study and write in her diary. She never goes outside and always has to worry about if their ever going to be discovered and killed.
The Frank Family wasnt the only ones that went into hiding in the Secret Annexe, also the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel, making a total number of eight. Their survival in the Secret Annexe was dependent on their helpers who brought them food, news from the outside, and books. The first part of the diary starts with her being a regular girl having fun and turns into a girl going into hiding with seven other people. In addition, she has to deal with relation problems with her mom, sister, and the people she is in hiding with.
The problems begin when eight people are confined in a small area and everybody begins to irritate and annoy one another. Anne was especially concerned with herself and with her attitude towards the others in the group. She’s mainly concerned with her mother who always treats her like baby. Mr.
Frank tires to ease the quarrels between them by telling Anne to help out more around the house, but Anne stubbornly declines preferring to concentrate more on her studies. She especially gets plenty of confrontations with Mrs. Van Daan who thinks she is a spoiled little girl. Mrs. Van Daan constantly tells Annes father, If Anne were my daughter. Annes respond to this in her diary was, Thank heavens Im not! Of course their was also painful moments in which she let her temper blurt out and told others exactly what she thought of them.
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