Why did anne frank revise her diary?

Answer 1

Anne revised her diary because she found out it might be possible to get it published. She began changing the names to psedonyms, and deleted or amended the most personal (potentially embarrassing) passages.

From Wikipedia
"........Anne's diary began as a private expression of her thoughts and she wrote several times that she would never allow anyone to read it. She candidly described her life, her family and companions, and their situation, while beginning to recognize her ambition to write fiction for publication. In the spring of 1944, she heard a radio broadcast by Gerrit Bolkestein—a member of the Dutch government in exile—who said that when the war ended, he would create a public record of the Dutch people's oppression under German occupation. He mentioned the publication of letters and diaries, and Anne decided to submit her work when the time came. She began editing her writing, removing sections and rewriting others, with the view to publication. Her original notebook was supplemented by additional notebooks and loose-leaf sheets of paper. She created pseudonyms for the members of the household and the helpers. The van Pels family became Hermann, Petronella, and Peter van Daan, and Fritz Pfeffer became Albert Düssell. Otto Frank used her original diary, known as "version A", and her edited version, known as "version B", to produce the first version for publication"

Anne Frank House
http://www.annefrank.org

Answer 2

Anne Frank was a writer, though she was only a teenager, and the best writing is rewriting.

When the diary was originally published, her father edited out a number of things that he felt were too personal to be read by the general public. Following his death, some of this material has been restored. I would recommend Diary of a Young Girl: The Critical Edition (This includes the original diary, Anne's rewrite, and the text of the familiar Diary of a Young Girl) and Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition.

Answer 3

According to the official Anne Frank website, she did edit and rewrite part of the diaries onto loose sheets of paper. Possibly this made them easier to store or hide. The original notebooks (excercise books) suffered from deterioration and her father went some way to editing them after the war.

Answer 4

Her father actually took some things out of the diary to better portray the people in the secret annex also because she possibly had sex with Peter the boy who was with them, and because she questioned herself on whether or not she liked boys or girls. Her father didn't approve of some of the things and to save family pride. Also when Anne heard on the radio about how they wanted the dutch to record in journals about the holocaust and so then Anne started to revise her journal and to make corrections and to make it sound better.

Answer 5

She didn't; it was published by her father who left things out to portray people in the secret annex in a better light and possibly to hide the fact that Anne may have had sex with the boy that was staying there.

Answer 6

she did? thats news to me.