Diary of a Young Girl Question #1

By page 88, things are getting pretty tight in the Annexe. They have more people hiding there than they began with and, as is natural for humans, the closer they have to live with others, the more they begin to get on one another’s nerves. Anne begins to feel as though everyone thinks about her in a negative way. Is she justified in feeling this way? Find passages that support that she is an “ill-mannered” girl or passages that would argue that her feelings are unwarranted, that truly everyone thinks of her as a delightful child.

*Reminder–Each group is responsible for posting an answer and then responding to other people’s posts (you might, for instance, disagree with their analysis of the passages, or you may further clarify the passages–or you may use the reader-response technique of discussing how the passages made you feel/what they made you think of, etc.)

Diary of a Young Girl Question #2

Anne talks of her fears of capture with the use of metaphor:

I see the eight of us with our “Secret Annexe” as if we were a little piece of blue heaven, surroundedby heavy black rain clouds. The round, clearly defined spot where we stand is still safe, but the clouds gather more closely about us and the circle which separates us from the approaching danger closes more and more tightly. (115)

* Find another place where she uses figurative language. Describe what she is referring to and give the passage just as I have done above.

*Reminder–Each group is responsible for posting an answer and then responding to someone else’s post (you might, for instance, disagree with his or her analysis of the figurative language, or you may further clarify the passage–or you may use the reader-response technique of discussing how the passage made you feel/what it made you think of, etc.)