Deanna E.
Language Arts
 
 

Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
 

 Reading the diary of a young, jewish teen really made me think of how good I have it compared to her. I never really thought of how much pain and torment they have to tolerate. I saw the movie of Anne Frank and I wanted to read all of Anne’s thoughts of what was happening and how she really felt. I knew that they had it hard, but living in a secret annexe for about two years, it just didn’t hit me until I read it. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is about a girl named Anne Frank, it is a diary form that was made into a book. I liked reading Anne’s thoughts.

 Some of the characters I really liked were the whole Frank family- Anne, Margot, Frank and Edith. I really liked how they being jews didn’t  keep them apart from their non- jewish friends. I also really loved how no matter how hard it got, they still looked forward to getting out of the secret annexe and starting life once again without the Nazi’s there to invade them. They didn’t give up on their hopes or dreams.

 The book starts off in a house in a very uncrowded area. They live in Amsterdam.  Then it revolves into an old office building owned by Anne’s father in the attic. I could really see the house as Anne was describing the secret annexe. When she wrote in her diary how many rooms it had, and how big they were I could really see how crowded it got with eight people living in an old office building.

 I really loved it how Anne told all of her beliefs, hopes, and strengths and never let anything stop her from it. Even when the Nazi’s captured her and her family, I really felt that from reading past diary entries from her, that she really knew that she would get out. And even though she might have been a little scared at the time, she still had hope for getting out safe and living with her family like they had before.

 I really liked this book a lot. I think that everyone that likes reading of young people with hopes and dreams should read it. Even though Anne didn’t get out of the holocaust, I think she never put her dreams in the trash and thought that she was going to die. She has died, but her dreams are still alive.