Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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Book Reviews of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Book Review: Dear Kitty
Summary: 5 Stars
An innocuous gift, a diary a girl treasures. She writes in it, "I will call you, Kitty." A scrawny teenage girl begins writing her way into the hearts and minds of mankind around the world. This book will be her legacy and her memorial.
Her family, refugees from Germany, immigrates to Holland where the boots of nazi oppression and psychopathic poison are not far behind. Ann's family hides from the invader in an attic where the Dutch who are the antithesis of German intolerance give them meager rations.
Ann's writing tells us about herself, and her relations with her family and the van Danns cramped in an attic always starving, and never being sure when they will be brought food, or if the police will find them. Through the turmoil of maturation from girl to woman,we learn of a girl's decency, innocence, and goodness.
All the hope for freedom is gone as the police discover the hide-out, and Ann is taken to a concentration camp where she dies two months before its liberation. Going back to the attic, her father finds her diary that will bring her immortality. Her legacy begins.
We all would have wanted to see Ann Frank and thousands of others like her live. No one, especially a young innocent girl should be treated so inhumanly without the least iota of mercy or decency. The irony is that her seemingly meaningless death among millions is what gave her life meaning, and allowed her story to be told to the world.
This book is a reminder that love and kindness survives the most vile lack of humanity. It is a testament to the human spirit.
Ann Frank would have been seventy-eight June 12, 2007.
Book Review: I have fallen in love with a girl named Anne Frank.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have fallen in love with a girl named Anne Frank.
It took me forty-some years to finally get to this book. Having now read it, I have been completely smitten by this vivacious, intelligent and strong young teenager.
I understand this is the "uncut" version of the diary, including segments which reveal her burgeoning sexuality. I was taken aback by her candor, her insight, her ability to be impossibly self-aware.
It begins shortly before her imprisonment in the "Secret Annexe", and ends so abruptly it's painful. Since you know what will happen to her, your anxiety level increases as you near the end of the book. I found myself still hoping for a rescue, even though I knew one would never come.
Her optimism infused me to the point of irrationality.
How fortunate for us that she is a natural writer. Her vivid descriptions of the Annexe, it's inhabitants, her own feelings...she has given us a window into a soul.
Diaries are by necessity and definition intimate. They are NOT by necessity and definition "literature."
This diary happens to be exactly that. While technically the voice of one girl, one cannot help but see through her own words, the thoughts and feelings of an entire country. An entire religion.
Being a young girl, a young Jew, during the rise of Hitler...NONE of us will ever know how that felt.
By some miracle, by the fact that this diary exists, and was presented for all to read, we will always be able to at least come close to understanding the inexplicable horror of that era.
All through the eyes of an amazing young girl.
Book Review: Intriguing Book
Summary: 5 Stars
From mid-1942 to August 1944, accompanied with other Jews, the Jewish Frank family went into hiding in an attic in hope that they would survive the Nazi's persecution of the Jews. At the beginning of this period, Anne Frank, thirteen years old, started a diary, which was a record of her two years hiding in the attic.
At first, most of her diary was childish. A good portion of her diary was about the squabbles between her family and one of the other families, the Van Daans. She also included her arguments with her mother, her conflicts with her roommate, Albert Dussel, her dislike towards Peter Van Daan, and the inconveniences of living in the attic. Anne had a hot temper and was disliked by everyone else, often ending in tears after arguments with various people. She often fumed at her mother and her sister, Margot. She was immature and stubborn at the time, and was extremely sensitive.
Later in the book, Anne developed more sophisticated thinking and mature views. She found ways to cool off after a debate and got more control. She wasn't as emotionally fragile as she was before. Anne started focusing more of her time on philosophical matters rather than small, unimportant arguments. She started to have a liking towards Peter Van Daan, whom, a year before, she thought was an obnoxious little brat. She wasn't so prejudiced towards Ms. Van Daan and she stopped getting mad at Margot. As Anne progressed, she gained valuable wisdom through the toughness of her situation and wrote with an adult-level quality.
I think this is a great book for almost anyone, and I certainly recommend that you read it.
Book Review: The book was very good, sad, and touching!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book starts as Anne at the age of 14. She recieves a diary for her birthday. She names this diary Kitty. She shares her most secret thoughts with it. During World War II the Frank's are forced to go into hiding. They live in Anne's dad's office building. They have the door hidden as a bookself. They reffer to this hidding place as the "secret annex". They have other people living with them. As she spend more and more time sitting by herself she spends less and less time living her live. She begins to have feelings for Peter Van Daan. He is living in the annex with them. They talk, share sercets, and regrets. As the end of the war gets nearer, they are forced not to move, breathe or go to the bathroom so they don't get caught. Someone told the officals of Germany that their were people hidding in the "secret annex". The officals find them and take them to camps. All the people in the Franks family die, but Otto (her dad) lives. When Otto goes back to the annex to gather his belongings that are their, he stumbles upon Anne's dairy. He decides to publish only peices of it. About 30 years later he is persuded to publish the whole thing. I think this book was very interesting, sad, and it makes you think. When Anne tells us what her culture had to go through it makes us think, what if that happens again. If that were to happen again it would show that the wolrd has learned nothing from the Jews and Hitler. Hitler killed many jews. This book and other books published about the Holocuast. This is my opinion on the book Anne Frank the diary of a young girl.Book Review: Couragous Story
Summary: 5 Stars
The diary of this young Jewish girl was about how her and her family had to hide out during the Holocaust when the Nazis were in power. Her story depicts how they had to flee their home in Holland and reside in Amsterdam, in an old run down office building attic. During the two years of their hiding Anne explains how their were only certain hours in which they could move around, the effects of constant boredom and starvation. The little girls story explains how scary her life was, because her and her family were in constant fear of being found and brought to their death at the concentration camps. The end of the book states that a few years later Annes father (the only survivor) went back to the attic where he and his family hid for so long before they were discovered and brought to the concentration camps. He discovered the journal that his daughter had kept while looking around the gloomy area.I liked this book very much. The fact that the little girl vividly explained her life during this time allows the readers to truly understand. I found this story to be very emotional with added to the understanding someone can take from it. The young readers can look into the eyes of someone their own age and that way have a better grasp of her life occurrences.
I am glad that the father chose to publish the diary. With him doing so he allows the world to see what truly happened and what horror the Jewish community was in. This little girls journal shares the hardships as well as the courage needed to overcome the terrible obstacle that the people of this time faced.