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Summary: Anne Frank
Review: I read this book because of my interest in Anne Frank. I must have loved it because I keep going back and reading my favorite entries again and again. Truly a great book.
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Summary: Anne Frank
Review: A sad life of a little girl who lived during WW II. She escaped from Nazi to live in a small hidden place in an office building. There she learned to adapt herself to her new home and to know about love. Unfortunately the hiding place was discovered and all of them were separated and sent to Nazi camps. Anne, heartbroken and very weak, died in the camp. Her diary was found among the garbage and was kept and given to her father who somehow managed to survive. The writing was a masterpiece.
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Summary: A window into her life, and ours.
Review: Why does this little diary written by a young girl confined to an attic continue to fascinate the world more than fifty years after its writing? I think I know.The diary of any young girl might have some appeal, if only at the level of the voyeur or gossip in us. The diary of a remarkably intelligent and articulate young girl like Anne Frank is interesting because she paints her reality with vivid hues and subtle shadings that bring us deeply into her experience. The nature of Anne's experience, sadly, is what makes this work so enduring. The diary of this young girl in the hurricane's eye of one of history's most notorious and inhumane political regimes and cultural upheavals is fascinating. We admire Anne for her courage and her Faith in humanity. We grieve the loss of this bright young life. We shed tears at the tragedy this little book lays bare for the world to read --- a Truth hidden from the world while the diary was being written. This little book also reminds us of Anne's suffering and death in a concentration camp. Though Anne was not able to chronicle that time --- or if she did, it did not survive --- we feel we know her there, too. Anne reminds us, finally, to move beyond the tragedy of her life to live fully. That, not despair, is the central theme of this little classic.
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Summary: A true great story told by her father.
Review: I am very excirted abiout thius remarkably great true story. A great story worth reading. Fasinating!
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Summary: Inspiring, sad, and haunting
Review: It's hard to put into words the feelings I am left with after having finished reading this book. There were moments during reading it when I laughed, when I was sad, and times when I felt angry. To look back on this time, a time before I was even born, and to see how people could have treated one another, almost leaves me with a sick feeling inside. To look how people still treat one another, what with racism, discrimination, and with apathy still, only increases that feeling. And yet, with reading Anne's words, and feeling her optimism still for the future, with all that had happened, I have to still believe that we as a people can change, and become better beings. I had seen the "Diary Of Anne Frank" as both a play, and as a movie before I had sat down to read the book. The movie was all right, but I liked the play more, mainly because the girl who portrayed Anne was closer to her own age, somewhere around the age of fifteen. Knowing what the ultimate end of her story would be had always kept me from reading the book, until I decided to just go ahead and read it. And now I am glad that I did. Anne had a unique style of writing, wherein no matter how normal what she was writing about might have been, that I always found myself interested. She had depth, a real love for life, which really came through in her writing. Maybe it was the fact that she yearned for a close friend that she could tell anything to, and made that friend her diary, and called it Kitty that made it so interesting. Because of that, she wrote in her diary as if she were talking to a person instead of just an object, and put down to paper her true feelings and thoughts. At times, she seems almost prophetic when she is writing about the dreams she had about them being captured, and sent away to camps. But then, I would have to stop and think, and realize that they lived with this fear every day they were in hiding, because they could never know what might give them away. To imagine living with such a fear for almost two and a half years is almost beyond my belief. And then, some of her entries in her diary were amusing, like when she told the story about one of their helpers creeping down the attic steps in his socks, and taking fifteen minutes to do so so that no one will hear him. I have to wonder what her life could have been like had she managed to survive, if she and the others hadn't been discovered hiding in the secret annex. But then, maybe we wouldn't know her story as well as we do if that hadn't happened. It's a sad truth that tragedy is more often better received than victory is. Still, it would have been interesting to have seen what she could have accomplished, whether she could have realized her dreams of becoming a journalist, if things had been different. Many things have stayed with me since I finished reading the book, but none so much as her entry dating April 5, 1944. She writes about her own writing, noting that she is her own best and harshest critic. She goes on to say that she doesn't want to lead an ordinary life, she doesn't want to live a life in vain like most people. She wants to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those she has never met. And finally, she says that she wants to go on living, even after her death! That touched me like nothing else had. She has gone on living even after her death, through this diary, which I, and many other people like me, have read. If you haven't read it yourself, I encourage you to do so. Anne was a remarkable girl, and I can only hope that some day the world can find the peace that she so desperately sought.
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Summary: Just like the movie!
Review: I have seen the movie to this book. I knew what was going to happen before I read the book, but when I read the book, I felt as if I were watching the movie all over again. There are so many details that are in the book that you may not see in the movie. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in finding out what really happened in that day and age.
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Summary: I Have A Question
Review: If the people hiding in the Secret Annex were unable to go outside for the duration of their stay, how could Peter manage to get peonies for Anne on her 15th birthday? (see page 270, 6/13/44 text) The only thing I could think of was one of their external helpers smuggled them in for her smitten beau. Any other guesses out there?
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Summary: An unforgettable book
Review: Anne Frank: The Diary or a Young Girl is the most unforgettable book I have ever read. 14 years ago, my grade 7 class was asked to read this amazing story. I was completely touched and utterly inspired by this young girl of about my same age. Through each entry of her diary, I felt closer to this remarkable girl. At the age of 12, I had very little interest in learning about a war that seemed so far and distant from me. I reluctantly began my readings and soon found myself connecting with Anne; a girl who seemed to be going through a lot of the same emotional and physical aspects as I. She became so real to me and I heartbreakingly realized that she was going through so much more than I had ever previously fathomed. Anne Frank was a remarkable young woman with an ability to write honestly and beautifully so that she could touch and reach out to all indviduals. Because of Anne Frank, I was inspired to begin writing in my own journal and I continue to express myself through writing today. I can no longer compare myself to such a brilliant and strong-willed girl; however, I will remain touched from her life. I hope that this diary continues to touch lives and show them some of the harsh realities of World War II.
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Summary: Disturbing, Funny, and Sad
Review: I believe this is one of the greatist books ever published. It has all the elements of a great novel, yet it was written by a 15 year old girl. Anne Frank and her family go into hiding. She records the events that happen up until her arrest by the Nazis. One part the was sad and disturbing was a sentence that she wrote right before the Nazis took her and her family. "...yet, in spite of everything I believe all people are really good at heart..." This book should be read by people of all ages so that they can understand how the hatred and persecution of people of different races effects the world.
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Summary: SOUL ON PAPER
Review: When a Supreme Court justice was asked why humanity would be worth saving, he replied "I have read Anne Frank's Diary." What makes the Diary, next to the Bible, the best selling non-fiction book of all time has something to do with Anne's perceptive, wise, candid, lovable presence tangibly radiating from the pages. And the mysterious fact that it survived at all written by a young teen under life threatening conditions. Mrs. Van Maarsen, mother of "Jopie" (Jacqueline Van Maarsen, author of My Friend Anne Frank)--Anne's friend whom she wrote to and about in the Diary, was quoted "Anne is not lost to us. Jopie admits I'm right." (Anne Frank: A Portrait In Courage, 1958). This quote described an otherworldly encounter Mrs. Van Maarsen stated that she'd had with Anne's spirit after her death. Regardless of whether Anne Frank is affecting people from some other dimension of reality, the intimate impact of the Diary remains. Touched by the "still small voice" of Anne Frank, receptive souls are forever altered and the heart of humanity uniquely softened. written on June 12, A.F.'s birthday
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