Based on your first chunk of reading, discuss Anne Frank's perspective. What has shaped it and how?

        Hey, Alex here. While reading Anne Frank, our teacher asked us to blog about Anne's perspective on life at this point in the book and how it has changed throughout the story. So I am going to give this question my best shot. In the beginning of the diary, her perspective seemed to be positive, but only slightly dampened by the Nazi reign, and it seems to be turning more to the negative side in the Secret Annex, and she feels a lot of guilt. For example, in one of the earlier entries, she talks about how her math teacher made her write various papers because of how much she was talking in class. On Sunday, 21 June, 1942, Anne wrote, "Mr. Keptor . . . was very annoyed with me for a long time because I chatter so much. So I had to write a composition titled 'A Chatterbox' as a subject . . . Another composition followed. This time it was 'Incurable Chatterbox." There was also another composition, "Quack, quack, quack, says Mrs. Natterbeak," and in this one, Anne and a friend, "[Made] him the laughing stock of the whole class." This shows how she has a positive perspective on life because of how she is messing with the teacher, and having fun with it, stuff that a lot of teens like to do, along with her talking a ton, which I don't think she would do if she was looking at life negatively. As for the Nazi dampening, there is a perfect example of that in the diary entry for Wednesday, 8 July, 1942, in which Anne recalls, "' The S.S. have set up a call-up notice for Daddy' [Margot] whispered. . . a call-up; everyone knows what that means. I picture concentration camps and lonely cells- should we allow him to be doomed to this?" And in the same entry, it says, "When we were alone together in our bedroom, Margot told me that the call-up was not for Daddy, but for her. I was more frightened then ever and began to cry." This is what leads to Anne and her family going to the Secret Annex, and kind-of shows how her perspective is turning negative. The Nazis were planning to take her 16-year old sister and send her to somewhere where she would be badly mistreated. If that would me, that would begin to, or maybe automatically, bring my perspective to the negative side, as all I would me seeing is the bad parts of life. And speaking of, this next quote from Wednesday, 13 January, 1943, gives exactly how much she is seeing all of this bad stuff. Anne wrote, "It is terrible outside. Day and night more of those poor miserable people are being dragged off, with nothing but a rucksack and a little money. On the way they are deprived even of these possessions. Families are torn apart, the men women, and children all being separated." Anne has started to see all of the bad stuff happening around her now that most of the good stuff in her life is gone with her old house. She even goes so far to say that she feels guilty about it, and, "we really ought to save every penny, to help other people, and save what is left from the wreckage after the war." I am fairly sure that it is not mentally healthy for a 13-year old girl to see and almost constantly think of all this bad stuff, and to say how guilty she feels that she can only watch and can't interfere. If she were to interfere, she would almost certainly be killed or sent to a concentration camp, where she would almost certainly die, which the thought of is, again, not good for her mental health. To sum all of that up, Anne's perspective seems to be growing ever more negative as she spends time in hiding.