Analyze Style and Rhetoric. How would you

describe the tone of Frank's diary? How does

she relate to her subject matter?

Tone: Youthful; Optimistic with Jolts of Anger, Irony, and Humor

No shocker here: the tone of the diary of a thirteen-to-fifteen-year-old girl is youthful. To be fair, Anne does have many surprisingly mature insights into life, war, interpersonal relationships, and much more. But this is always set against the generally youthful tone of her writing ... and this makes the diary that much more poignant.

She has concerns like boys, arguments with her parents, and friends. She frequently talks about wanting to be grown up already and she often gets all giddy about the boy she likes:

In the meantime, things are getting more and more wonderful here. I think, Kitty, that true love may be developing in the Annex. All those jokes about marrying Peter if we stayed here long enough weren't so silly after all. Not that I'm thinking of marrying him, mind you. I don't even know what he'll be like when he grows up. Or if we'll even love each other enough to get married.