In The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne reveals the importance of friends and family in times of war. Throughout the book, Anne and those in the annex must depend on those around them for their emotional and physical survival. They must take their mind off the war by forcing themselves to think about non war-related subjects to remain sane, which they do by thinking about the others in the annex. Living in the Annex alone would have drastically changed their well-being.
At the beginning of the diary, when Anne is not yet in hiding, she is very distracted by her friends from the events of the war and seems to ignore the fact that her people are being discriminated against. This may be because she is still quite young at an age of 12, and still has her childish innocence. …
