In addition to the difficulties of coping with her emotions and the changes in her body — another normal feature of adolescence — Anne has had to come to terms with the privations, the crowded and unsanitary conditions and — most especially — with the ever-constant fear of being discovered and hauled away to one of the Nazi death camps.
The voice of the somewhat spoiled young girl who begins the diary changes by the end of this first year to the voice of a young girl who is able to analyze situations and characters, find amusement rather than annoyance in the little incidents of daily life, and put them all down on paper in a vivid, graphic way. She decidedly has a way with words, and her delicate irony, the way she records conversations, and her ability to describe scenes all enable us to experience and see and feel what she herself is undergoing.
