Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank represents people in hiding during the Halocaust. Her family was a jewish family who was living normally until Hitler took over. Annes family left Germany to go to the Netherlands during WW2 because of the risk of being prosecuted by the Nazis. Later then, Germany invades the Netherlands which forced their family into hiding. They then moved into the a secret Annex of their friends house that was hidden behind a book case. The family then has to live in silecne for the majority of the day because of the risk of being found by Nazis. Anne frequently writes about her feeling of lonelyness and isolation, she is starting to notice how her relationship between her family is crumbiling and how she is being critizised by the owners of the house. Throughout the story, the family makes estimates of when the war will be over and when they will be able to come out of hiding but they realize that there is no way to predict what Hitler will do.
   Throughout the story she questions why the Jews are being Persecuted by the Nazis and is questioning if the problem will ever end. Her family has to deal with everyday struggles of having the lack of food and having to be quiet for multiple hours of the day, the family also has to deal with the owners of the house that get more and more tired of them living inside their house everyday. Throughout the two years of them being in hiding, they see how much the Netherlands were destroyed by the Germans, Annes entries describe the horrors of the war and how it Affected the people who lived there. Although Anne still considers her being German, she feels that the Netherlands is her home and is where she feels like she is most home because of seeing the terrors of the Germans and how the Netherlands couldn't really defend themselves much at all.
    At the end of the story it is going on like most days of the story until the one of the pages is left blank which is when her family gets found by the Nazis. Her family was not ready or did not expect the Nazis finding them at all. Her diary represents families in hiding during WW2 and is one of the most popular books in the world.