Diary Of Anne frank Summary! xD 4th post for term 3

1942 summary.
Anne frank received her diary as her birthday present and she thinks that the present is the nicest of all the presents she received. Although she felt that writing a diary is quite unusual or boring as no one at her age is writing one, she wrote it anyway as she felt the diary is one of her best friend who could listen to her.

She gives a brief story of her life. Her father married her mother when he was thirty-six and her mother twenty-five. Her sister Margot was born in 1926 in Germany, and Anne in 1929, also in Germany. They emigrated to Holland in 1933, and her father manages a company there. In 1938, after the pogroms, or destructive anti-Jewish raids, some of her family escaped to the US, and her grandmother came to stay with the family in Holland. After May 1940, Hitler's anti-Jewish laws became more strict. Jews were made to wear a yellow six-pointed star, forbidden to ride bicycles, trains, and cars, given limited shopping hours and a curfew, forbidden to enter places of entertainment, forbidden to play sports, forbidden to visit Christians, and other restrictions.

Sunday, the S.S., Nazi police, sent a call-up notice for her father and for Margot for their deportation to a concentration camp. Thus the family escaped to the Secret Annex and they clean the place for a few days. They are very scared that the neighbours will spot them thus, they tried to not make much noise. Another family, the van Daans. The Mr and Mrs Van Daan always pick on Anne at how she eats and how she behaves, scolding her as a spoilt child. Anne don’t like them and also don’t like her mother as she felt that her mother is very bias against her. She always is on Margots side and Anne is frustrated about her mother but is helpless thus a few diaries are about her upset and frustration at her mother. She write down bad things about her mother . She also mentioned that she love her father more as he understands her.

In actual history, in 1942, there was the mass killing of Jews . French, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania jews were all slaughtered. SS begins cashing in possessions and valuables of Jews from Auschwitz and Majdanek. German banknotes are sent to the Reichs Bank. Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks and pens are distributed to troops at the front. Clothing is distributed to German families. By February 1943, over 800 boxcars of confiscated goods will have left Auschwitz. Germany also deducted the foot ration for the Jews. The jews are also banned to use public transportations and must wear yellow star which is for the segregation between jews and other people. More than 500,000 jews were killed in 1942.


1943 summary

In 1943, Anne turned 14 and received a lot of birthday presents like book on Greek mythology . one of her favorite gift is the poem her father wrote for her which is very sweet. Besides that, there is a lot of air raids, sometimes even twice a day. All of them are very scared and could not even sleep peacefully at night. Anne often woke up in cold sweat as she is very scared of the sound of bombs and guns.Food are running out in the secret annexe.

More Jews are getting dragged into concentration camps to be slaughtered. Anne feels that she is lucky compared to jews with no hiding place to go and get caught by the germans and forced to work or get killed. She also desperately hopes that no one discover secret annex and catch them. She pity those Jews outside and often wished to herself that war should be over as soon as possible.

Anne find Mr and Mrs van daan more and more irritating as they scolded her continuously. She had a couple of arguments with Mr. Dussel and one of them is them fighting over a table in their room but father stood on her side so after a few rounds of quarrel, she could use the table but that’s beside the point. Her relationship with mother is getting worse every day. Once she refuses to say her prayers with Mummy, upsetting her greatly. Anne feels sorry for her, but she did not know that Mummy would be upset by the coldness with which she herself treats Anne. Anne is indifferent, and remains aloof because it is her true feelings.

Food in Secret annex is running out. Everyone is angry. Anne cannot sleep because of air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and ersatz coffee for breakfast, and spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner. Burglars steal money, sugar coupons, and check books from the offices downstairs. Luckily, nothing is taken from the Secret Annexe.

In real history, the year 1943 is the year of the first bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven). Later in the year, Mussolini was arrested but rescued by Germany. He quickly re-establishes a Fascist government. Italy declares war on Germany and on the same day, there was the Second American air raid on Schweinfurt. Thus from real history, we could see that in the year of 1943, there is a lot of air raids just like what anne frank frustratingly talked about in a few diaries.


1944 summary

In 1944, Anne frank is experiencing puberty. She has a crush on Peter and always has a dream about his cheek near hers. She is also curious about sexual topics which are also a sign of her puberty. She kept going upstairs to see Peter and chat with peter which was suspected by father who thought that their friendship might turn to love but Anne felt that everything is under control and when father continued to force her, she wrote him a letter which is very hurtful and caused father to dislike her and turned cold to her but this did not stop her from getting closer to Peter. Anne’s mother felt that she is disturbing Peter but Peter did not feel so as she and him have something in common which is the dislike over their parents. Peter did not like his parents and Anne did not too thus both of them always chat about this topic. Later on, she found Peter weak as he kept on finding the easier way out. She wanted peter to depend on her but Peter is depending too much on her and she is like “ what is his problem?”

There is also D-Day which signals that the invasion has begun. The British are invading France.
Anne is so excited and wonders if 1944 will bring an end to the war. The invasion seems to be going well, and Anne gives some interesting details about the number of planes in use and how many tons of bombs are being dropped. The invasion is going well, with the Allied forces having captured many French towns and also recaptured and liberated a lot of land. Everyone is just waiting for them to reach Holland. Anne again points out how foolish the Dutch people are for thinking the English are lazy because they have not yet liberated Holland.
Anne’s diary ended abruptly on her last entry where she reflects on the fact that her personality is a "bundle of contradictions." She is a dual personality but she never shows the nicer, softer, and gentler inside Anne to people – they only see the frolicsome, flirty, easy-going outside Anne.