ANNE FRANK'S DIARY
The objective of this study is to explain the living situation of the people in the annex where Anne Frank and her family went into hiding and to examine the excerpts read from Anne Frank's diary and answer as to how Anne sees her own situation compared to that of other Jews and what Anne's emotional response was to the situation. Finally this study will answer as to the limitations of the reader's understanding and the connection points and why Anne Frank's diary became so important and so well-known.
Anne Frank writes in her diary on the 13th day of January 1943 that things are happening which are terrible, both during the day and at night and specifically states in her writings that people are being taken from their homes with only a small sack of belongings and a little bit of cash which are stolen from them as they go. More shocking is that families are being separated from one another and specifically that children return home from school and their parents are no longer there. Women who go out shopping come home and find their homes sealed up and everyone gone.
I. The Living Conditions in the Annex
The living conditions in the annex are described by Anne Frank to be such that encloses all the inhabitants in an environment of fear and one that has Anne imagining the suffering that is to come. Anne Frank feels trapped and imprisoned where she is only able to be a small strip of the blue sky when she looks out the window of the place where she and her family are hidden out along with others. Anne longs to go to the country and to feel the sun and smell the fresh air. There...
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