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Summary: The Diary of a Young Girl
Review: Anne Frank by Anne Frank
The diary of Anne Frank is a great book. It is about a thirteen year old Jewish girl who lived in Amsterdam during World War II. When the Nazis start invading towns near by Anne's home her whole family is forced to go into hiding. They go to her father's factory and stay in the top three levels of the building. There are a total of seven people that are staying in the Secret Annex. There is the Frank family; which includes Mr. and Mrs. Frank and their two daughters Margot and Anne. The other family is the Van Daans; this includes Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son Peter. Soon Mr. Dussel joins them. He is a Jewish dentist.
At first Anne thinks that it's great that they are going into hiding. Then she realizes that there are only three ration books for all eight of them to get food. Even with only three ration book to get food she still manage to be somewhat cheerful.
She is always talking back to the Van Daans and putting her two cents in whenever she can. The Van Daans are always yelling at her, but her father sticks up for her. Her mother tells her that she shouldn't be talking back to her elders. Her mother is all about manners and Anne doesn't care about manners. So there is tension through out the story between her and her mother.
At first Peter thinks that Anne is a big mouth. Then after about a year of being in hiding together they start to become friends. Not long after this the Nazis discover their hiding place. They are sent away to a prison camp and don't know if they will be freed or killed.
I enjoyed this book because it was interesting and had some humorous parts. I never realized how hard it would be to survive in hiding for two years until I read Anne Frank's story.
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Summary: Franco's Fabulous Book Review
Review: Anne Frank, a 13 year-old, strong-willed, and courageous girl, is living in the Secret Annex during WWII to escape the Nazi regime. Anne, along with her family and close friends, are hiding from the Nazis because they are of the Jewish faith. Anne falls in love with Peter, a 15 year-old boy who is living with her in the Secret Annex. They become very close as they spend time in the attic trying to escape Peter's annoying mother. The group living in the Secret Annex has to be extremely careful. If they make too much noise, they have a chance of being caught. If they are caught, they will most likely be sent to a concentration camp. Any loud noise or movement could cost the eight tenants of the Secret Annex to die.
"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" is an amazing book. It lets you realize how lucky we are to live in the world we live in today. The struggles that Anne and the group go through to live a "normal" life are nothing like anyone in today's world would be forced to go through. It allows people interested in WWII to gain information as to what is was like to live during the war.
"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" is a must read. It is ver informative, yet allows the reader to learn about WWII in an interesting way. So, if you like WWII and are interested in learning what it was like to live back then, this book is for you. It is also a good piece of historical fiction. Pick it up today!Julie Francolino
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Summary: Anne Frank's Diary: A Review
Review: Anne Franks Diary:The diary of a young girl Anne Franks Diary is a remarkable book. Written by a young girl in a time of trouble and terror, she writes what she feels, and what is happening around her, in first person. Anne Franks Diary, is an autobiography of her short life. This book takes readers back to the time of power, greed and expresses what life was like. Also known as the Great Depression. This book is what the world lived through and how this war impacted human beings, of all sorts. I enjoyed this book because of the high intensity of how this young girl felt. She suffered day on end to survive, with family and friends holding on with her. " Leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with my tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing. Let me get away from it all, preferably away from the world." This quote explains the suffering Anne Frank went threw to survive in this hard time. The reason why I liked this book is because of the honest opinions honest thoughts and feelings. For people that enjoy historical events and the detail be hide them you will enjoy this book like me. The quotes that really come from the inner sprit of Anne Frank, can get to you, with a few powerful feelings, and words. "A voice sobs within me: There you are, That's what's become of you: you're uncharitable, you look
supercilious and peevish, people dislike you and all because you won't listen to the advice given to you by your own better half." I personally like this quote because it explains how Anne changes she becomes more grown up and more marcher.
I found that I really endured this book because of the reality to her life and thoughts. I also found that the sad times or the touching moments really are what put the book together. Some other quotes that make this book what it is, are these, "I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me." "I started by being snappy, than unhappy, and finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, If ...... there weren't any other people living in the world." I think you should read the book, Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl. Enjoy reading.
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Summary: The Diary of Anne Frank
Review: I recently read a book titled Anne Frank: Diary of a young Girl. When I first started reading it I couldn't put it down I read it night and day, day and night. It is a perceptive journal that was written by a young girl during the time of the Holocaust. She received this journal on her thirteenth birthday; it was a gift from her father. This was about two weeks before her family went into hiding. The people that she lived with were her mother and father, her sister, another family of three, and a young dentist.
I absolutely fell in love with this book. It showed haw hared it was for a thirteen-year-old girl and her family (along with some others) hid from the Nazi's during the Nazi Occupation of Holland. Her personality really surprised me, because she had such a positive attitude through everything that she went through. In her diary she expressed her thoughts and insights about her environment. She described her feelings and all the occurrences that took place everyday on fears that she lived through.
I enjoyed this book because it taught me a great deal about myself. It showed me that I didn't have as hard of a life as I had thought I had. Anne Frank never had the chance to lead a normal adolescents life... The book brought me to tears, and I have a lot of respect for Anne Frank. After reading the Diary of Anne Frank I appreciate my life and what I have a lot more!
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Summary: Importance of "mundane" things.
Review: I was struck by the many remarks that this book was not a good "holocaust book". I think that depends on what you characterise as a "holocaust book".
If you are looking for stories of concentration camps, and people dying etc., then the Diary of Anne Frank is not the book you should read.
It is however one of the very few original accounts of life in an occupied country for a child of a minority that was hunted down. Nowadays hardly anyone will be able to understand what that was like. What this diary shows so perfectly is that life indeed does go on, also in occupied territory and even in hiding. But it also shows the ghost of fear that is present in every aspect of that life and not knowing when it might end.
Because the diary from which springs this definitive edition was not written with the intention to be read, it may be less 'readable' than other books on the war, or the holocaust. It is therefore all the more important to appreciate it for what it is: true life through the eye of the author.
I sincerely hope that young people reading this book do not underestimate the hardships in the annex, as not "being really holocaust". Until you have read this book and/or have visited the annex, imagining yourself sitting there for two years with people you love and hate, you cannot possibly imagine what life for jews in the occupied countries was really like.
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Summary: An adolescents views on such a horric event in history!
Review: In Anne Frank's Diary " The Diary of A Young Girl", she not only gives an account of two Jewish families in hiding during one of history's most horrific events, the holocaust, but also takes us into her true feelings and critical outlook on others around her. The most remarkable part of her diary is that she is only thirteen years old, who quickly matures because of the circumstances. This book may be written by an adolescent person but Anne Frank is much more capable of understanding her faults and strong characteristic than many adults today. She is able to touch many different subjects; politics, war, sexuality, religion and in every one she captures you with her deep philosophical thoughts, which are well expressed for a small child. On top of that she writes in her diary several movements against the Jewish people by Hitler. She also gives us her hypothetical scenarios like how the authority given to German soldiers by Hitler would be abused. For instance when soldiers had the authority to shoot his officer if he knew that the officer had anything to do with the conspiracy on the attempted assassination of Hitler's life, she wrote that this authority would be abused at this point by an angered soldier. Through all her ordeals she is still able to maintain her good nature. She wrote in her diary that she would like to become a journalist, which she accomplished with this book. This book gives us just a small sample of what she would have been capable of offering journalism would she have survived such turmoil in history.
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Summary: Amazing and moving
Review: Like many, I read this book in elementary school. It was one of the most moving, powerful experiences I've ever had. We all know the story by now. Anne Frank and her family are Jews hiding from the Nazis during World War II. The book is Anne's diary about her time in hiding. Every detail of Anne's experience rang true -- there were no doubts in my mind as I read it that this truly was Anne's diary, even though I knew parts of it were missing. The way she wrote spoke to me as a human being in general, but as a 12 year old it was amazing to me to realize that this person who was going through such an awful ordeal also had some of the same feelings, experiences, emotions, worries, hopes, and dreams that I did. Anne Frank's diary encouraged me to start keeping my own. This is obviously a book about World War II, but it's also about adolescence, the human condition, families, and writing. It's possibly one of the most important books of the 20th century.
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Summary: Appalled
Review: Not by the book, but by some of the reviews. Apparantly "this book blows," as one reviewer tactfully put it. If you take time out to insult a girl who died in such tragic circumstances then you have serious issues. You wouldn't be particularly happy if you were the one locked up for two years, starving and crying in a concentration camp and then having people talk smack about you and your diary. If the book was seriously rubbish, thousands of people today would not be so moved and inspired by it. I'd like to make the assumption that you are too immature to understand the significance of it. Take a step back and don't accuse me of being Anne Frank's obsessed fan with no life when it is in fact you who need to get lives. And as for the book being boring, remember that most of what is written in it was intended for Anne's eyes only. She didn't open her diary and write the first entry thinking, "Hmmm, I'll bore my future readers to tears by writing the dullest diary I can!" Please, don't dishonor Anne Frank.
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Summary: Don't Bother With It
Review: The Diary of Anne Frank is an interesting Holocaust book. It puts a different view on everything that they say about the holocaust. This young Jewish girl tells her story about leaving her home and going into hiding. This Diary tells about what Anne and her family do in the attic. How much she longs for the out doors and how much she misses all her friends. Anne seemed to have such a passion for the out doors and seemed like she was very out spoken and chatty. She writes about her family's close calls with the Nazi troops, her conflicts in life, thanks to the family and friends living in their close living quarters. Anne was a fantastic and inspirational writer for her age and to stay so happy and optimistic through the entire experience.
There was only one thing I didn't like about this book. It was that it tended to drag on. I like books that are fast pace and more upbeat. Not much can happen when you live in an attic so I understand that the diary would tend to drag on.
Honestly I really didn't want to read Anne Frank. It was a school assignment. But when I started getting into the book I realized that Anne's life was very interesting and exciting. I hated when the Nazi's found Anne's family and the VanDaan's after two long years in hiding and so close to making it alive. I wish Anne and her family didn't have to go through all the horrible things the Nazi's put them through. I encourage people to read this book. It puts a better understanding on how Jewish people had to spend there lives in hiding and always living I fear. How there daily lives were in hiding and how the could barely move during the day.
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Summary: Overrated
Review: The hype for this book was really overwhelming. Whenever talking about the holocaust, this book comes up. Though a good book about growing up, it really has no insight into the holocaust. It's mostly just Anne writing about things most girls growing up write about. You know, liking boys, getting boobs, etc. But really, there's nothing to really make you sad about the holocaust. A much much better book is Night by Elie Wiesel. Yeah. Now that's a really powerful book. And I guess this is too, just not in the same way.
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