d 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, concentrat...
