Anne was an average thirteen year-old-girl, slim with dark-brown hair and intense dark eyes whom was born in Germany. She was very talkative and would sometimes get in trouble because of her mouth. She is a famous young girl because of how she was able to write about the Holocaust in her diary. The holocaust was a horrible period in time, and Anne lived and died during it. Most of her teenage life, Anne lived in hiding with her family, yet she still had a positive outlook on life. Along with everything else she came to represent- high spirits, strong personality, and opinionatedness- Anne Frank symbolized the power of a book.
             Anne and her family lived in Frankfurt, Germany most of her life. Anne loved the company of her peers and like the attention she got from them. Also, one of the hobbies Anne loved was going to the movies (Gies, Miep. 1987). A new hobby that soon would make Anne famous was her writing in her diary. Anne received her diary on her thirteenth birthday from her father. Anne loved to write and was excellent at it; thus her diary was her best friend. Other than her diary, she had no real friend. She may have been flirtatious with boys and talked to girls at school, but they were not friends she could confide all her thoughts to (Frank, Anne 1952). In her first entry, she called her diary "Kitty" and said she could confide with "Kitty" all her thoughts; in sum, the diary is her friend. Shortly after receiving the diary, Anne and her family, along with four strangers, were forced into hiding (Brown, Gene 1991).
             While being forced inside a secret annex and having to leave -friends, material possessions and memories- Anne kept high hopes and a positive outlook of life. She grew up through hard times and was able to keep her good childhood memories. Anne thought the best possession she was able to take with her was her memories and diary (Brown, Gene 1992). Anne knew when she wrote she co
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