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Summary: How do you review a life?
Review: How do you review a life? Anne Frank was a child becoming an
adult at the onset of the Second World War, and the diary of
her life is the diary of any bright, perceptive young girl becoming a woman, and the diary of a Jew who died in the Nazi
death camps.
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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: The Diary of Anne Frank was a wonderful book.
Review: I read the book, "The Diary of Anne Frank." I thought that it was not only a wonderful book, but it was very real. It is the captivating story of a young girl, told to her diary about her life, growing up under sone of the strangest, and saddest conditions. It was written in Holland in the early 1940's, during the anti-semetic movements of the Nazi party. Is is told from the innocent eyes of a child, forced to go into hiding to escape Nazi persecution. She lives under close quarters, with seven other people. I felt, because the book was so real, that I actually knew the characters in the book. I found myself relating to ideas that Anne had and things that she said. I think that everyone should read this book because is is an insight into life, love, and hate. I believe that this is a great book and could be enjoyed by anyone.
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Summary: I really liked this book
Review: I liked this book a lot because of the information I was told and got to learn from it. There was all kinds of information about Jewish people and how the were treated that I had no idea about. I think anyone who wants to know how Jewish people were treated back during the Hollacost should read this book, it gives a great of amount of detail.
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Summary: It's great, but not for English class
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: A warning against the evil of Anti- Semitism
Review: This diary has done great good. The story of one young Jewish girl's living in hiding, and surviving with her family during the Holocaust has perhaps been read more than any other diary in history. The story is not only of survival in everyday life, but of the growing pains of one young adolescent girl. This girl is however a person of remarkable, insight, intelligence and spirit. That she was among one of the more than million Jewish children whose lives were taken from them before they had a chance to live suggests how incomparably great this loss was and is. Anne Frank has become a symbol of humanity's contending with evil, and at the same time retaining its humanity. Her faith that in the end ' people are good at heart' in the face of the experience she knew can be an inspiration to all of us who looking at the evils of the world today , need to hope that a better world and a kinder humanity will be our future.
It is horrible to know that the monstrous Nazi European anti- Semitism which took the life of Anne Frank has now become a major element in the anti- Western Jihad which a part of the Islamic world is now engaged in.
Would that the lesson of Anne Frank's life and loss be that instead of hating each other we all learn to be kinder and more considerate towards our fellow human beings.
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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: 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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Summary: moving first-person account of Jews in hiding
Review: Unlike many others, I somehow never had to read this book in school. So I read it as an adult. This powerful book is the personal diary of a 13 year old girl who was in hiding in an attic (for 2 years) during the Holocaust.
If you are in Amsterdam you can visit the attic that they hid in - it is now a museum. I toured it, and what shocked me was how very small the area was that they all lived in...(The diary described their small living quarters, but it didn't seem real to me until I saw it for myself.) As per Anne's diary, it was very challenging and frustrating for a group of people to live in such close quarters. They had to be quiet and still during the day (when other people were in the building), but at night they could move around a little more freely.
I also visited Bergen Belsen in Germany - the concentration camp where Anne and her sister died. There is a special memorial to them there.
Anne was just a young girl and parts of her diary are about silly "young girl stuff"...And parts are a little dull because it is just about the everyday routine of life in the attic. But, overall it is an exceptional first-person account of what it was like to be Jews in hiding during WWII. As you read, you can relate to Anne's fears, struggles, hopes and dreams...dreams that were never fulfilled because of the horror of the Holocaust. I recommend this book to students and adults alike.
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