A diary as a best friend

Anne Frank starts keeping a diary from her thirteenth birthday. She takes the diary to the hiding place, of course. Anne enters the Secret Annex as a girl, but grows into a young woman there. She spends more time thinking about life, and records her thoughts in her diary.

Anne Frank and her diary

Anne doesn’t just keep a diary during her time in the Secret Annex. She also writes short stories and collects her favourite sentences by other writers in a notebook. Anne hopes for her diary to be published as a novel after the war. That’s why she starts rewriting it. But Anne never manages to finish it. She's discovered and arrested before she completes her work.

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Anne throws herself into writing She has a diary, but also writes short stories too

Besides her diary and the stories, Anne also writes her “favorite quotes” in a separate notebook.

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Rewriting for publication Anne hopes her diary might be published after the war

In May 1944, the idea of this novel takes on serious form.

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Taken seriously as a writer at last? The various versions of Anne’s diary

In 1998, the emergence of five unknown pages written by Anne Frank once again focused attention on her diary...

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Anne writes:

Writing...

“The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feelings; otherwise I’d absolutely suffocate”.

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Anne's surroundings

Otto Frank Anne and Margot's father, Edith's husband

Otto sets up a business in the Netherlands. After that, his family can come over too.

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Peter van Pels Hermann and Auguste's son

Peter is a quiet boy who likes to work with his hands.

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Comments (83)

mah homies this is like so sad y'all

Yo Mama, 764 - United Kingdom - 10 May 2013 Comment on: Anne throws herself into writing

I've read her diary so many times and it never fails to move me!

Shannin, 17 - Shropshire - United Kingdom - 3 May 2013 Comment on: Anne throws herself into writing

a terrible event in time she was a very brave incredubleyoung girl

kiamber harris, 15 - dayton,ohio - United States - 16 Apr 2013 Comment on: Rewriting for publication

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