The Diary of A Young Girl - More Thoughts

I’m still reading The Diary of A Young Girl. Where I am, it’s 1944 now, and Anne has grown up quite a bit since first arriving in the Secret Annexe. She’s been in the same building with the same people for a year and three quarters of a year – straight. I’m surprised that she hasn’t gone crazy. The Van Daans (the other family hiding with them) have a son named Peter. Anne is a teenage girl, and Peter is a teenage boy, so it’s not much of a surprise that Anne and Peter have sort of become… more than friends. So there are a few pages straight about Peter, then a page or two about something else, than more about Peter! At times, she seems obsessed with Peter! She talks with him frequently.

However, she does talk about Annexe life as well. And there is something scary going on in the part I’m in the middle of. They are scared that they may have been found out. Someone broke into the building, and they think it may have been the police. It’s quite frightening to read, and sort of sad, too, because this may have been how they were found out. No one is sure just who reported the Franks, but it is possible that it was one of the people who broke in. However, judging from the length of the book, it’s not the end just yet. But it’s sickening to think that it may have been the beginning of the end.