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Summary: i recommend
Review: A great book for all! Every reader would definitely love it. This is a journal about a teenage girl, a Jew during World War II. Her family going into hiding is tragic example of how many people had to struggle to keep alive. This is a true diary written by a girl named Anne Frank. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Wistful and witty
Review: I just wish I had the insight and sensitivity Anne had at her mid-teens when I was the same age; but then, I didn't have to go through what she experienced at such an early age. Just to think that this clever, precocious girl had to suffer confinement and a terrible death simply because a bunch of kooks didn't like her kind makes me cringe. And still, Anne states: "In spite of everything, I still believe people are good at heart". I think it sums up the essence of the diary, naive and wise at the same time. She recounts her life before and after she and her family went into hiding to escape Nazi persecution, and the hardships they had to suffer, and not precisely because of Nazi harassment; the squabbles and pettiness of some of the annex dwellers could seem in some ways worse than the war going on in the outside world. Although the strained situation in the annex affected Anne very much, she does not despair; she spices her accounts with hilarious and often wicked comments on the people around her, mixed with the difficult, sad situations she had to endure. It isn't really much of an historical reading, it contains little about World War II itself, but it is more a story about coming of age in very unusual circumstances. What a shame Anne Frank had to die, had she survived she probably would have produced an even better work than this one.
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Summary: Excellent beyond words
Review: I was amazed at the depth of understanding and writing abilties of this young teenager while she was in hiding during the Second World War in Holland. As a teenager myself, I feel like Anne is writing my own thoughts on the pages before me and I realized that this hardship of the Holocaust she faced made her wise beyond her years. What a strong and optomistic girl in the face of such adversity! I wish I could have the chance to speak to Anne Frank and tell her that she has written a true statement of human nature so wonderfully. I admire her so much for her abilties to write freely and honestly about issues facing all human kind and especially in the hearts of teenagers. I am glad that I came upon reading this small treasure that was written in a time of war, and am able to hear her voice so loudly now in the present many years later. I would reccomend this book to all who want to see and hear what it was and is like to be a teenager faced with such a terrible hardship. There is much to learn from Anne Frank, young and old.
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Summary: Anne Frank possesed an old soul
Review: "Who would care about the unbosomings of a thirteen year old girl?" Anne Frank wrote in one of the first entries of her diary. Answer: millions. I'm sure that if Anne knew how many people her writing would effect, she'd be overwhelmed. Anne's family wasn't really what they called "orthodox jews". They mostly went to their synagouge for special occaisons. Of course, Hitler didn't consider things like that, and Anne's sister got a summons to go to a death camp. The family decided to go into hiding. And this is the point where Anne's diary truly becomes a masterpeice. If you look at the entries before and the entries after they move into the Annex, you'll see the change in Anne. Before, mostly all she wrote about was school and parties and boyfriends, etc, etc. After she, her family, the van Daans, and Dussel are sequestered in the Annex, her writing becomes more profound. Anne did indeed have a knowledge beyond her years. I especially love her last entry. It was almost as if she knew what was going to happen and she was forgiving the people who were going to do it to her. Some of the things that she wrote will really put you into a trance, making you think "Is that really the way it is?" It's not just "the unbosomings of a thirteen year old girl", it's a story of a girl caught in the middle of a complex and bloody war. The bit about the woman who went to the dentist and came home to find that her whole family was gone was heartwrenching. Imgaine! This is one of the most profound, thought-provoking books I've ever read.
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Summary: Beautiful coming of age story...
Review: Simply beautiful like a perfect new dewy rose. A delight for it's story of a little girl growing up and a horror for the reality of her situation. Anne Frank was simply a charming and lovely girl.
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Summary: Anne Frank- the spirit of the teen mind
Review: Anne Frank's diary is truly an example of how the teenage mind thinks. This book takes you in depth to Anne's feelings about the war and being a teenager during the Holacaust. You see how she servives in a small house with very annoying people. I truly recommend this book. Buy it now!
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Summary: A SUBLIME EXPERIENCE!
Review: Anne Frank ! ... a name that always brings a Sigh from the deepest part of my heart...a name that makes me think of angels , the fraility of human emotions & the steel that is the human spirit...unbreakable!A name that makes me want to hang my head in shame for being a part of the human race that could perpetrate such cruelty...! This book is the recorded emotions of a little girl struggling to maintain a balance betwixt despair & the fear of death & her love of life...but as u read thru' her deepest fears & loves written for her eyes only ,it is often hard to believe that these writings originated from a 13-15 year old heart because they have the insights of a mature soul! I was deeply saddened by the entry where she records her desire to live on after her death thru' her writings later on in life & her wish to publish a book on their life in hiding titled 'The Secret Annexe'...saddened because her wishes came true in such a twisted way ...I highly recommend this book because though it leaves you with an ache deep down ,it also leaves u with a belief in the human spirit & a joy of having known {even if indirectly} a person like Anne Frank...a soul to admire ... Hers was a life snuffed out too soon...& oh! So cruelly...
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Summary: KOOL---BUY IT AT ONCE!
Review: Anne is first and foremost a teenage girl--stubbornly honest, touchingly vulnerable,in love with life. Its a really kool book.Before i read it, i thought this is boring but i change my mind after.She writes with adult wistom and views beyond her years. Her story is that for every teenager, lived out in condition few teenagers have ever known................i love it so much!
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Summary: An Amazing mind that sorrowfully disappeared too early...
Review: I was searching through some old books that I had and I came upon this particular story. I knew little about what it contained and I consequently decided to give it a try. Nothing could prepare me for what this book contained on its pages....this girl was brilliant. I could only hope that I had so much insight now at 22 that she had at 13 or 14. I absolutely commend her father for his decision of publishing her collection of diary entries. It allows the outside world, even over 50 years later, to actually feel what these persecuted jews felt like while they lived in utter seclusion. If one is looking for excitement in a story...this is not it but if you are looking for content....this is your book.
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Summary: Quite exceptional
Review: Anne Frank is not an amazing writer and doesn't have an IQ of 170 but she is easily shown her feelings on paper through daily events. I personally find it very difficult to write down the daily events and correspond them to my feelings. Therefore I get low grades in essays and ficitonals and very high marks in factual. Anne Frank seems to write things that really make me understand. She lives in her own heaven and yet casts herself around with feelings of hurt and pain and at her teenage age how she managed to cope in the secret anex is a mystery to me. One thing that I quote from the book is this: "A voice within me is sobbing, 'You see, that's what's become of you. You're surrounded by negative opinions, dismayed looks and mocking faces, people who dislike you all because you don't listen to your better half. Believe me, I'd like to listen, but it doesn't work because if I'm quiet and serious everyone thinks I'm putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then I'm not even talking about my family who stuff me with aspirins and sedatives, see if I have a temperature and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can't keep it up anymore, I get cross, then sad and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if only there were no people in the world." Isn't that just really amazing? I felt her words seemed to enwrap me in this soft tissue of desire and hate for myself. Please read this. It's a great read.
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