Essay Topics: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Essay Topics: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is an historical novel. Many people may be surprised that it is based on a true story, although the stories it is based on are not, as such. At first, this book might be thought of as something very light and humorous, but as it goes on you start to see why so many people have used this book as a basis for a short story or novel. This book tells its tale in a manner that will make you want to read every word.The Diary of a Young Girl starts off with Anne's father, Otto Frank, a teacher at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He was one of the lucky ones, as his brother, Otto Frank, who worked as a German code-breaker, was killed in the camp when a Jewish prisoner, Simcha, shot him. Frank was also lucky as he survived the initial liquidation, although his sister, Anne, did not. When her father died in April 1945, the family was separated.They were taken to a different part of the world. They were not allowed to know the location of their relatives. Otto Frank did not die in the camp, as he was saved by a French doctor. Frank and his sister were sent to Paris, where they were cared for by a Jewish family. When they arrived, Otto Frank was allowed to join them, as he had some friends there.When Anne Frank was taken away from them, she wrote down what happened to her. She remembered being made to stand in a line when she was still young, while all the other girls were allowed to skip it. Later, she wrote that her mother 'felt that my pain was different from theirs, because the feelings I had were ones of selfishness and of lack of sympathy.'The Diary of a Young Girl follows Anne's rise from a spoiled, arrogant, and selfish little girl. She is shown to be very thin, with a round face, something that has been a preoccupation of hers since childhood. Her body is described as uneven and her skin dry. This is because of the diet she was forced to take while in the concentration camp.However, Anne still managed to remain strong, which was displayed in her refusal to shed tears over the death of her brother, when she first learned of his death. When her parents arrived at Auschwitz, Anne got them out of the camp at once. However, things took a turn for the worse after the Bergen-Belsen camp was liberated. Anne then writes about her sister Anne, being forced to work as cattle-producers in Holland, and their well-being being threatened by a general sense of apathy.As time passed, Anne finally realised the true evil that was going on in the camp. She had a great amount of sympathy for the prisoners there, and it is this that gave her the motivation to write her diary. Her father came to visit them on his own in 1947, but they were taken out again by the Gestapo and sent to another concentration camp.When she reached the place she thought would be the last camp, she discovered that all of the other inmates were to be shot. After a difficult journey, she was giv en the news that she was to be taken to Auschwitz. This is where the real horrors began.