(100 Points! )Assignment "The Diary of Anne Frank" Compare-and-Contrast Essay

Write a 3–4 paragraph compare-and-contrast essay that addresses how Anne matures over the course of writing her diary. The final draft of your essay should include

• A topic that is appropriate for a compare-and-contrast essay.
• A clear, and arguable, thesis statement that relates to the essay prompt.
• 2–3 body paragraphs that each feature a supporting claim, evidence from the text as support, and only relevant information that contributes to your argument.
• Use of either the point-by-point or block method of organization.
• Use of transitions to reflect the method of organization you select.
• Evidence of revision to improve unity and coherence, as well as to address modifier errors.
• Use of three module vocabulary words
• Use all three forms of verbals correctly: gerunds, participles, and infinitives.

Here is an idea on how to write your essay. You may need to elaborate a bit more.

There was a time when Germany’s economy was at its worst. When Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party was rising to power. Yet, Otto and Edith Frank were blessed  to welcome Annelies Marie Frank to their lives on June 12, 1929 on the outskirts of Frankfurt. As  a young girl, Anne is forced to go into hiding amidst much political persecution of her people in her new home country of Netherlands.

Living in the secrecy  of the Annex forces upon Anne the stark reality of a critical time in a Jew´s life. Anne will eventually complete her diary with over two years of experiences of the Secret Annex.Two years that will change the bright-eyed little girl who walked into the annex for the first time into a fully-fledged woman that would never leave that place alive.

Anne's diary begins just as Anne hits adolescence. She tells us that “Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Oh well, it doesn't matter. I feel like writing, and I have an even greater need to get all kinds of things off my chest.” At this stage she is just a little girl trying to relieve some of the constraints of her confinement by writing something.

Although she is living the extraordinary circumstances of hiding in an annex from German persecution, Anne faces the many normal problems of any  bright-eyed thirteen year old. Anne begins to mature emotionally and physically, and  recognizes her limitations  to  understanding adulthood when she first began writing her diary. In one entry, she shows that her younger self has deepened "I wouldn't be able to write that kind of thing anymore," she says. "My descriptions are so indelicate."  

Anne matures over the course of the Diary into a deeper more realistic woman. Anne begins as an optimistic young girl who, with the passing of time, reflects on her place in the world and is quick to challenge  views  and argue with the other residents in the annex. As she tells us on page 142, “Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.

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