Hello everyone, for this book report I am (currently) reading 'A Diary of a Young Girl' by Anne Frank, which was a book originally written by Anne Frank (in Dutch), but translated into many different languages for reading. This book was written throughout World War 2, when the Nazis took control of Germany and persecuted the Jews (the actual duration of the diary is June 14th 1942 - August 1st 1944). The one I am reading is the English version. I read 25 pages out of 283 (pages in total including the afterword).
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Since I didn't read a lot and haven't gone through most of the book yet, other obstacles throughout the book is unknown to me. Anyway, there was one obstacle, which I believe is one of the main obstacles in the whole book, which was the reason why Anne Frank, the main protagonist of this first-person non-fiction diary (which had entries all addressed to Kitty, the name of the diary), had to go into hiding. Most of the diary is written and is during the time of her and her family's hiding, so this is a very important obstacle. So the cause of all this is World War 2 and the control of the Nazis in Germany, and more specifically because Anne's older sister, Margot, has received an official summons (writ) on July 5th 1942 from the Nazis to report to a Nazi work camp located in Germany. Her family knew that sending Margot to a Nazi work camp would be bad, and did not want her to be sent off to a work camp, so they decided to go into hiding from the Nazis. They moved straight away into their "Secret Annexe", which was a building where Anne's father had his office in, then. The building is described as 'a very peculiar boardinghouse', 'an ideal hiding place', 'leans to one side and is damp', but a 'comfortable hiding place' by Anne. She also added that 'you'd never find such a comfortable hiding place anywhere in Amsterdam, no, perhaps not even in the whole of Holland.' (These quotes where all from the same page: 20.) Judging by these descriptions, the new home (more like a place to stay than home) isn't much of a problem for Anne (no misery, nervousness, etc.), but she still stated that she will never really feel at home in it. So it isn't much of a problem, but I think it also adds to their loss of home and freedom, which is the main/big problem/obstacle.
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Since I didn't read a lot and haven't gone through most of the book yet, other obstacles throughout the book is unknown to me. Anyway, there was one obstacle, which I believe is one of the main obstacles in the whole book, which was the reason why Anne Frank, the main protagonist of this first-person non-fiction diary (which had entries all addressed to Kitty, the name of the diary), had to go into hiding. Most of the diary is written and is during the time of her and her family's hiding, so this is a very important obstacle. So the cause of all this is World War 2 and the control of the Nazis in Germany, and more specifically because Anne's older sister, Margot, has received an official summons (writ) on July 5th 1942 from the Nazis to report to a Nazi work camp located in Germany. Her family knew that sending Margot to a Nazi work camp would be bad, and did not want her to be sent off to a work camp, so they decided to go into hiding from the Nazis. They moved straight away into their "Secret Annexe", which was a building where Anne's father had his office in, then. The building is described as 'a very peculiar boardinghouse', 'an ideal hiding place', 'leans to one side and is damp', but a 'comfortable hiding place' by Anne. She also added that 'you'd never find such a comfortable hiding place anywhere in Amsterdam, no, perhaps not even in the whole of Holland.' (These quotes where all from the same page: 20.) Judging by these descriptions, the new home (more like a place to stay than home) isn't much of a problem for Anne (no misery, nervousness, etc.), but she still stated that she will never really feel at home in it. So it isn't much of a problem, but I think it also adds to their loss of home and freedom, which is the main/big problem/obstacle.
Good job! It's really long but that's a good thing in this case. It has lots of quality description. Good job.
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