Franks colleagues. .
This is where her two-year journey of fear begins for Anne. I am sure that such repression and fear of life would make almost any teenager completely depressed and miserable. However, Anne managed to keep her hope for a better tomorrow and managed to do well. Her time in seclusion was like a prison sentence; she doesn't get any privileges and has minimal communication with peers of her age. The only thing she had to do was study and write in her diary. She never goes outside and always has to worry about if their ever going to be discovered and killed. The Frank Family werent the only people that went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe", also the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel, making a total number of eight. .
The first part of the diary starts with her being a regular girl having fun and turns into a girl going into hiding with seven other people. In addition, she has to deal with relation problems with her mom, sister, and the people she is in hiding with. The problems begin when eight people are confined in a small area and everybody begins to irritate and annoy one another. Anne was especially concerned with herself and with her attitude towards the others in the group. She's mainly concerned with her mother who always treats her like baby. Mr. Frank tires to ease the quarrels between them by telling Anne to help out more around the house, but Anne stubbornly declines preferring to concentrate more on her studies. She especially gets plenty of confrontations with Mrs. Van Daan who thinks she is a spoiled little girl. Mrs. Van Daan constantly tells Anne's father, " If Anne were my daughter." Anne's respond to this in her diary was, "Thank heavens I"m not!" Of course their was also painful moments in which she let her temper blurt out and told others exactly what she thought of them. It quotes in her diary on April 2, 1943: "They expect me to apologize: but this is something I can't apologize for because I spoke the truth and Mummy will have to know it sooner or later anyway.
