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The Diary of Anne Frank Book Review

The Diary of Anne Frank Book Review Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne’s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne’s family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne and her family called it the “Secret Annex”. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis. This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl’s life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless. After reading this book, we were forced to look at life in a different way. The luxuries that are provided for us that we take for granted, like money, cars, a house, food, and even rights, were all put into perspective. “We couldn’t use street cars, go to the theater, couldn’t be out past 8 PM, couldn’t even sit in our own gardens. We had to turn in our bicycles; no swimming pools, beaches, or libraries- we couldn’t even walk on the sunny side of the street.” This is a quote from Anne’s diary. This just touches upon some of the many simple luxuries that were robbed from her and her family. Today, most of us would blow a casket if we were so “inconvenienced” as to not be able to drive a car, stay out past midnight even, or not to be able to enjoy sunlight. At one time or another, especially during the summer, each and every one of us makes an appearance at the beach or the local pool. Imagining not even being able to see the sunlight for years at a time really can make one think “maybe its okay that I didn’t get the tan I wanted this summer, or that we couldn’t make the trip to North Carolina”. Almost every person at one point in his or her lives takes something for granted. Just imagining what Anne and her family had to go through makes us realize that life is rough sometimes, and we may not always get what we want, but it could always be worse, and maybe we should learn to take pleasure in the little things life has to offer. From reading this book, we gathered a lot of information. One of the most important messages was that things don’t come easy for everyone, and you should appreciate what you have when you have it because in a matter of days, it could all be gone. Like we said before, life could always be worse, I mean we could be dead (knock on wood). We knew this girl who had everything that she could possibly want. She was very lucky, yet she never really appreciated what was handed to her every day. One day, while driving to her friends’ house, she was hit by a car, and she wasn’t so lucky anymore. She could no longer walk, or even talk. In a matter of seconds, her whole life was changed. Had she known this was going to happen, I’m sure there would have been more “I love you’s” or “thank you’s”, and maybe spent less time worrying about how people looked and more time worrying about how they felt. Appreciating the small things life has to offer is something everyone should learn to do. Anne and her family were so quickly torn from a blissful life to a confined area, which they were forced to adapt to. They were so appreciative of every little piece of food, book, or simple gift that was brought to them. On the New Year of 1944, Miep, a woman who was harboring and bringing the supplies that the Frank family needed, brought them a little surprise. She baked her “famous spice cake”, and brought it to them as a New Years treat. They were so ecstatic that tears were even shed. It was little things like that that made the Frank family happy. After reading this book, we have taken note to some of the small things that people do for us, and have learned to appreciate them on another level. From the way this book was put together, and the feeling recieved from Anne and Mooyaart’s style of writing, it created the sense of being there with Anne and her family. “Sometimes I see myself alone in a dungeon without father or mother, or I’m roaming the streets, or the Annex is on fire, or they come in the middle of the night to take us away, and I know it could all happen soon. I see the eight of us in the Annex as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds. We look at the fighting down below and the peace and beauty above, but were cut off by the dark mass of clouds and can go neither up nor down.” That exert was from Anne’s diary in which she was expressing how it felt for her to live in the Annex at that time. The way that exert was written shaped the view of how they actually felt living there in isolation day after day. In one way, they felt secure and protected, but they always knew that the world outside was a completely different atmosphere. The murders, beatings, concentration camps, starving families, homeless people, and the defenseless Jews that were being killed and controlled every day were very evident to the Frank family, but it was providential for them that for the most part they did not have to experience it. Although Anne and her family felt safe, she knew that there was nowhere to go. She was trapped in a small office space, and she could not go anywhere. One can feel how much she longed to play with her friends and cat again, or write in her diary in the comfort of her own home. It is so hard to imagine what life was like for her and her family, but the way the book was written definitely helped to understand and create a mental picture of what she lived through each day. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl was a very distressing yet amazingly written book. Who would have thought that such a little person could have such a huge effect on the world? Anne’s father lived for many years after the war and made sure that Anne’s diary was published. Her diary was published in 1947 and was then made into a film. This diary helps people remember what Jews had to go through and hopefully reminds them of how lucky they are. By remembering, it is hoped that something like this will never happen again. This book was intriguing while incorporating many life lessons. Discrimination, unfair judgment, and racism are only a few of the many lessons that this book has to offer. With that, after reading this book, we have learned to not take the things we have for granted because in a matter of seconds, days, months, or even years, it could all be gone. As Anne said in her diary, “In spite of everything, I still believe, people are truly good at heart”. Bibliography:

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