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An 8 page research paper/essay that discusses how Anne Frank's famous diary reflects her development as an adolescence. The writer specifically refers to Erik Erikson's model of personality development and argues that Anne was successfully negotiating the primary crisis of adolescent development--i.e., identity formation--quite successfully when her life was cut short by Nazi persecution. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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August 1, 1944. Her diary has become famous as an eyewitness account of what like was like for Jews hiding from Nazi persecution. However, those two years also chronicle a
young girls journey through the angst of adolescence, which was a process immensely complicated by the ordeal of being secluded and in hiding. Examination of Annes diary demonstrates that despite
the difficulties inherent in her situation, Anne was in the process of successfully negotiating the primary crisis of adolescence as outlined by psychologist Erik Erikson, which is the determination of
identity versus role confusion. If Anne had lived she would have undoubtedly continued in her personal growth as her diary indicates the formation of strong sense of personal identity.
According to Eriksons model of personality development, individual progression through life involves confronting and moving through a series of developmental stages, with each stage accompanied by its own specific
developmental crisis (Holme, et al 427). Unlike his mentor and contemporary Sigmund Freud, Erikson did not picture personality development as ending with adolescence. Rather, Erikson described eight developmental
stages that begin with infancy and go through old age. In infancy, Erikson posted that it is important for an infant to develop trust versus mistrust. The next stage, which
is the equivalent of Freuds anal stage, is when a toddler begins to assert his or her individuality. The rest of the stages, and their specific crisis, are as follows:
the preschooler stage (years 3-5)-- initiative v. guilt; elementary school stage -- competence v. inferiority; adolescence -- identity v. role confusion; young adulthood -- intimacy vs. isolation; middle adulthood
-- generativity v. stagnation; and old age -- ego integrity v. despair (Holme 427). Annes brief life was cut short by the Holocaust. However, examination of her diary, with assessment
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