Diary of A Relatable Girl

      Hi everyone! So for my new blog post, I wanted to discuss the personal conflicts that Anne Frank encounters in Diary of A Young Girl and how we can connect to her personal conflicts in real life. If you don't know who Anne Frank is, she was a Jew during the time of the Holocaust which was a horrible time for people of the same religion as she was. So what her family decided to was that they were going to be in hiding in an attic that they would call Secret Annex until the WW2 was over. Unfortunately, she could no longer do the things that she would normally do anymore because she was a Jew (see my other blog called Struggles of Diary of Anne Frank: The Play for the adversities that she encountered while in hiding). And to make things worse, her family, the Van Daans ( another family that the Frank's took in to the Secret Annex) and Mr. Pfeffer were captured by Nazi police and were sent to concentration camps. Everyone except for Anne's dad, Otto Frank was the only survivor of the concentration camps because America came to rescue the prisoners in death and concentration camps. In search of his wife and two daughters he reunites with Miep (one of the people who helped the family in the Secret Annex) but Miep tells Otto that his wife and both daughters died before American troops came to rescue the prisoners. When they returned to the Secret Annexe, Miep finds Anne Frank's stories, drawing, and most importantly her diary. Anne's edited diary was finally published in 1947 and has been translated into many languages.

       As I was saying, Anne goes through personal conflicts in her life that girls today can understand so easily. On page 45 Anne writes, "I'm not jealous of Margot, never have been. I don't envy her good looks or her beauty. It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only for me—Anne, myself." This shows that with girls that either have an older brother or older sister, you would be used to having the older sibling getting the most love from your parents than you would get. I can even relate to this because I have an older brother who is in college and sometimes he gets more attention that I do that sometimes, I feel invisible to my parents. So normally I would normally hide in my room and pretend that I am asleep, but I have my eyes open. Even though we can relate to Anne's personal conflicts, some of us may never know how it would be to hide just because of your religion.