Think about the different themes that emerge in The Diary of a Young Girl and the major events that help you identify each theme. Then add four good discussion questions to your journal entries—two related to themes and two related to major events. Remember to keep in mind the attributes of a good discussion question. Choose a message that you believe is clearly developed in The Diary of a Young Girl, and write it out in your own words. Then find at least two passages in the diary that support or develop this theme. Record the date for each passage, and then explain why or how this passage supports the theme you have identified.

Using the beginning of the model essay as an example, write a paragraph that makes a claim about The Diary of a Young Girl. Your claim can be about a theme that is expressed in the entries, the purpose that the diary serves for Anne, or changes in her reflections about herself or her relationships with others. Make sure your paragraph includes a thesis statement. Also consider what passages you will use to help explain your thinking.

use this essay to answer the questions.
Living in a small, cramped area with many people is hard. Prof of this is found in 'The Diary of a Young girl' where Anne Frank, her family, the Van Daan family, and Mr. Dussel are all living together in the Secret Annex. Not only is living that cramped with people stressful, but when there is a war going on, they must not be found, there is a shortage of food, and lack of fresh air too there is bound to be lots of friction between everyone. This makes it particularly challenging time for everyone, especially a young girl, to go through because there is bound to be lot of arguments and harsh words. Anne Frank's entries from April 2- 27, 1943 showed how the shared space caused lots of tension between everyone.

In the entry on April 2nd Anne writes "she herself has pushed me away, her tactless remarks and her crude jokes, which I don't find at all funny, have made me insensitive to any love from her side." In this entry Anne refuses to say her prayers with her mother because she felt hurt by all the things her mother has said to her, and this causes tension between her and her parents for a while.

On April 27, 1943 Anne wrote, "Such quarrels that the whole house thunders! Mummy and I, the Van Daans and Daddy, Mummy and Mrs. Van Daan, everyone is angry with everyone else. Nice atmosphere, isn't it?" Since everyone has been cramped up in the house for so long almost everyone has something/ someone to be angry at. Anne is still having problems with her mother, the Van Daans with Anne's father, Mrs. Frank and Mrs. Van Daan, etc. are all angry at each other.

In the April 27, 1943 entry Anne wrote, "We don't have a single quiet night. I've got dark rings under my eyes from lack of sleep. Our food is miserable. Dry bread and coffee substitute for breakfast. Dinner: spinach or lettuce for a fortnight on end. Potatoes 20 centimeters long in tasting sweet and rotten. Whoever wants to follow a slimming course should stay in the “Secret Annex”". These bad conditions make people upset, tired, and hungry. When people are upset, tired, or hungry it causes them to be in a foul mood and makes other people be in a bad mood because of them; It’s like dominos.

Some might say that living in a cramped space with lots of people might not be all bad, that many good things like getting to know the people better, or becoming closer with everyone come from this, but the bad outweighs the good in this. Though, yes, you get to know the people better, get closer, and become like family, but it is still a very scary time with poor conditions, and this causes people to be in a foul mood. Even living with people that you love and feel like are family can become a bad thing if there is too much, its like candy if you have a couple of pieces its great, but too much and you have a stomachache.

Anne, in ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, lives with 7 other people in the ‘Secret Annex’. Not only was it a hard time in history with a war going on and poor conditions, but Anne had to live in a small space with 7 other people without ever leaving. Being this close with each other for so long caused lots of arguments and harsh words between everyone. In Anne’s diary entries from April 2-27, 1943, she and her mother had arguments, the Van Daans and Anne’s father, Mrs. Van Daan and Mrs. Frank, etc. as they had been in the annex for more than a year by now. Thus, proved by ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, living in a cramped space with so many people is a hard thing to do.
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