In The Diary Of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, two themes that emerge are loneliness and coming of age. Although Anne has been placed in an incredibly uncommon situation, she still has the same feelings that many have around her age. Anne feels like she is alone, even though she is in a small, cramped space with 7 other people. She feels that no one understands her, and that she is exiled by everyone around her. There are brief moments when she connects with her sister, her mother, and her father, who she tends to feel most comfortable with. However, for the majority of the story she is frustrated at them because she feels like she is targeted not only by them, but everyone else she is in hiding with. Everyone is constantly taking jabs at her and subtly insulting her. In fact, this is the reason that she is writing the diary in the first place. Early in the text, she writes “Now I’m back to the point that prompted me to keep a diary in the first place: I don’t have a friend.” (p. 6) She writes in the diary as if she is having a conversation with a friend. She even gave the diary a name: Kitty. The reality is that Anne needs an outlet to let out all of her feelings and vent. She craves someone to confide everything in. When she can’t find that, she turns to the diary. As time goes on, Anne writes every little detail of her day in the diary. It becomes her main coping mechanism and it is very therapeutic for her, in a way. The diary almost poses as an actual person as she writes more and more. She starts trusting it more, which becomes clear as she begins to even give it a nickname: Kit.