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Summary: "The Diary Of Anne Frank" is a book to be cherished.
Review: "The Diary Of Anne Frank" is a tragic story that at once brought tears to my eyes when I read it. It was so well-written for a young girl of about 13 and amazed me. The fact that Anne was real, that she actually walked on this earth was simply enough to touch me. Anne was so normal, so simple, she was just so real. Her experience of having been occuppied by the Nazis shaped her character so much and made her so much more womanly than she had ever been. The book touched me so much and it is a book that everyone has made. I will never think the same way as before I read this boo
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Summary: The excitement and terror of the story.
Review: This book is filled with excitement and terror. I loved the way that the book was illustrated. I would love to read it again.
It was sad that she died of typhus three weeks before the camp that she was at was liberated.
I recomend that you read this book.
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Summary: An adequate translation of the well-known book by Anne Frank
Review:
I have just finished reading both versions of The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank, the first edition, which was heavily edited by her father and the Definitive Edition which returns many of the passages he left out.
Since we are rating the Definitive Edition specifically, I rate it 8. The first edition of this book as 9. These rating are based on the translations of the original German text. A 10 not possible. Translations of any language not native to the writer are always subject to the translator's views and translation abilities.
Unless one reads the original manuscript in German and can understand the German of the time the diary was written they therefore must rely on the translator to convey the story adequately.
Much of the Definitive Edition was loaded with contemporary idioms which may or may not be accurate in translation. And while the Definitive Edition does bring to light information about their situation which was not in the first, I found it tedious to read some passages over and over again. All diaries have repetition since people are repetitious but the original editing helped to keep some of that to a minimum.
I am not sure why Otto Frank felt compelled to suppress some of the statisical information that Anne reported, though I can understand the suppression of some of the sexually explicit comments Anne makes, given the time the first edition was published (in the late fifties). The only thing I can think of is that the first edition may have been slanted to an age group of readers similar in age to Anne Frank when she wrote the diary.
Even the vocabulary of the Definitive Edition is quite a bit higher educationally than I would suspect Anne Frank of having used.
Reading the Definitive Edition only served to confuse the reader as to what was in her original diary and what was her later modified version meant for publication by Anne herself and what the translator thought was the appropriate translation.
This book was supposed to be referencing a real historical document, Anne Frank's personal diary. It lacked the appropriate footnotes to help the reader follow the changes made in translation and or the differences between the various versions, whether it was Anne's original diary, her own modified version, Otto Frank's version or this version.
This particular version is an appropriate translation if the reader is only using the book as a story telling device, but it is sadly lacking in regard to its possible use as a document for use in a historical capacity.
A better book for historical documentation is:
The Diary of Anne Frank : The Critical Edition
by Anne Frank, David Barnouw, Gerrold Van Der Stroom
IBN: 0385240236
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Summary: A young girl who had the will to live, but didn't make it
Review: I just recently finished reading the diary and it made me cry. You realize how lucky we are today because all of this isn't happening to us. The Holocaust was a tragic time where many people were killed for no reason. Even the people who were not killed still have the memories hanging over their heads. Anne Frank was a courageous girl who thought for sure she was going to live through the Holocaust. However, she did not, but still she became a famous writer even after her death. That is the irony of the diary because in it she says she wishes to become a famous writer one day. Anne quoted, "In spite of everything I still believe everyone is really good at heart." This is a must read book and I hope you will read it soon
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Summary: She makes you understand what it was like.
Review: I think that one of the reasons I enyoed her diary so much is because you could understand what it was like being in hiding. What makes it human is that she writes it with things not only about the war but about her personal life. I think I understood it better because my grandfather is a German- Jewish who survied the war during his childhood in Germany. It makes you understand how horible things can happen and you can not do anything about them. It also helps you understand the Houlocaust better. Well, at least it m,ade me understand the Houlocaust better
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Summary: a well written work by a very special person
Review: I am 12 years old and in the seventh grade. So perhaps,
Anne's diary speaks to me more strongly than to someone
older. As someone who enjoys writing and expressing my
thoughts through the written word, I was taken by Anne's
ability to bring me into her world, large and small, and
into her heart, mind and soul. Of course, knowing the
tragic end that will ultimately befall her, alters in some
way how one reads her. And, as I approached the end of the book, knowing that the diary would have no ''ending'',
put a very sad and melancholy tone to my reading.
In truth, it is difficult to ''review'' a book such as this. Who am I, a young girl myself with everything I've
ever wanted in this world, to judge the writing of a girl who lived at a time of chaos and insanity. When nothing was as it should have been. When instead of enjoying gossiping with her girlfriends, as do I, she was living
in the constant knowledge that at any time her entry in
her diary might be her last. How very sad. And my poor
skills at writing are incapable of expressing the tragedy.
So what did all this tell you? Yes, I highly recommend this book for all ages. For all the reasons I've sited and many more.
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Summary: Historical background needed to appreciate this diary.
Review: The afterward claims this book to be complete in and of itself. Untrue! Without some knowledge of the Holocaust during WWII, this diary seems similiar to other works dealing with teenage angst. True, Anne Frank's writing ability was beyond her years; still she tended to focus on her struggles becoming a woman rather than the greater problems facing her people and the world. The value in this diary lies in its ability to personalize the terror felt by individual Jews whose future was certainly bleak at best
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Summary: The AnneFrank book,reminded me,of how cruel some people are
Review: When I read the book Anne Frank,Diary of a young girl I could feel what she was feeling. I could also see happiness in her words, despite the things she was going through.
That to me is what I think everyone should have, happiness in their lives despite what they are going through. This book reminded me a lot of some books that I have read on slavery (I am African and I read many of those types of books.)Anne was a slave of her own country in a sad way. Along with many of those black slave heros, Amos fortune, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King jr, and many more, Anne was one of the many heros that we remember from the Extermination of the Jews.
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Summary: I read it at school.
Review: I am an eleventh grade student at Bishop Guilfoyle High School in Altoon, PA. This book was not some fictional story. It was a true recount by a young girl who was going through all the prejudice and death. People seem to want to make us forget anything negative that has ever happened. The terrible atrocities that occured during her life must never happen
again. If we forget they may. Anything wrong that she may
have said came out because of the difficulty in living through
WWII.
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Summary: It's not about WWII or Nazis
Review: This is an at times uncomfortably frank (no pun intended) diary of a girl going through adolescence. This period
in people's lives is typically emotionally charged anyway,
but the social strain of living in very close quarters
with about 10 other people for long periods of time makes
it even worse.
The usual view of this book is that it's about WW II and
how evil Nazis are. Some crazy neo-Nazi revisionists
have even attacked the book and questioned its
authenticity.
I think most people are missing the boat. Nazis hardly
appear at all in the story. The diary is mostly
about the relationships amoungst the unfortunate people hiding out with Anne. Most of Anne's fellow
hideaways come off looking pretty bad; she naturally discusses (and criticizes) the people she's cooped
up with much more than she mentions Nazis, whom she
basically never sees.
The Diary of a Young Girl is a good book, but it's not a war
story--it's a book about relationships and growing
of age.
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