Diary Of Anne Frank

It amazes me that this young 13yr old girl could have written the way she did. I am reading it again because I reserved to see the play at my school hehe. Who all has read it and what do yall think about the story?

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I love it, yeah, her vocabulary and grammar and stuff is amazing. And even her thoughts. I cried at the end of it, its really touching

 

I read that book like a million times when i was about 12. The first time i finished reading it, i had tears coming down my cheeks...i just couldnt believe that she suddenly had no hope to be free.instead she stopped writing her diary as the gestapo found them hidden in the building. I felt to close to her words and i could see myself feeling what she felt, living in hope, living in fear, it's an amazing book. it gives you an insight into someone's more private thoughts as well as how terrible and injust the world can be.

 

my friend's grandmother's friend lived across the street from anne frank and said that she was the biggest bitch in the world. i read her diary and i liked it a lot, though.

 

It is an amazing book, very well written for such a young girl.

 

The book is edited for vocabulary and such in order to create a stronger effect.

It is a very good read b/w the ages of 8-13 though.

 

That book really touched me. I visited her house in Amsterdam soon after. It was chilling. You could almost hear her words of youthful optomism echoing about its walls, knowing only too well the horror that was soon to unfold....

 

ahahahahha I can well believe it! did she say exactly what made her such a bitch though??

 

my sister visited where she lived. she said it was...eerie.

i read the book, twice. i cried when i read it the second time, i was older and i appreciated her experiences more. it just makes me mad how young she was, she had so much life and energy in her tiny little body and was denied the chance to enjoy it.

depressing.

 

i read it when i was 10

 

I read it back in elementary school


Personally, I dont mean to undermine her diary, but there are so many others dealing with German persecution and the Jewish response, I dont think they get fair attention if any at all


Ive recently read parts of Chaim Kaplan's diary and his experience in the Warsaw ghetto
as well as Adam Czernikow's and a diary from a resident of the Lodz ghetto

I wish they'd get more attention, they are so touching and valuable. Its a shame they arent widely read.

 

I read it about a year ago. And I have to repeat what everyone here said, it is an amazing book.
There were also lots of Juwes in the Czech Republic... so I have "closer" too it,ya know.
I think all the people should read it, just to know what one mad can do.

 

Has anyone read the Critical Edition? I have it. When they originally published her diary, they had to take out a lot that the editors didn't believe was appropriate. In the Critical Edition, they put it back in. Stuff about sex, her period, self-descriptions, etc. There are also a bunch of pictures and a really good intro.

I have a friend who's been to the Anne Frank house. She said it was really humbling. I'm visiting her in Germany next summer and we're going to go visit it.

 

I remember reading it and being blown away by it. It was sad having to read a book knowing that the person who wrote it meant everything she put in it and feeling sorry for her since she doesn't know her awful fate. I do agree with alex714. There are many different stories out there telling of the same thing (but from a different point of view) and it really isn't fair that they don't get the same attention.

 

Anne Frank was an amazing girl,though never seeing her 16th birthday,she lived her years with a grace and humility i wish i had an ounce of.

That she was deported on the last train to run from Westerbork in Sept. 1944,and that she died in the Bergen camp,just weeks prior to it being liberated make her plight all the more sorrow filled....to have come so close,twice to know the freedom she yearned.

"I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am so grateful to God for having given me this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is inside me"




That she's being talked about the world over,still, at least allows one of her dreams fulfillment.


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heh, i'm kinda glad to hear that....... years ago we had to study the book in school, and i got in hella trouble for my summary of anne frank being "a spoiled little bitch who instead of growing up and helping against the horror her family were facing, wallowed in self pity and constantly whinged" a fantastic account of life in those terrible times, no doubt..... but i just didn't like the girl at all.

 

If Anne Frank never left her hiding place......................until she was captured


How the fuck would somebodies "friends grandmothers friends dogs owners husbands next door neighbour" know anything about the girl ?????????????

 

chorlton, plenty of people knew of the Frank's, they had visitors...... protectors, people bringing them food etc......hell, didn't Anne describe one of the people who brough them food (Miep Gies, a lady who regulalry brought them supplies) as "like a mule, she lugs so much food to us"??


Plenty of people knew them, and knew of them

 

Hey Oz.....Sorry if you thought i'd directed my quick rant toward you!! wasn't my intention.

You're right,the Franks were well known...there hiding place being a fairly 'open secret' hence thier downfall....

I guess i was trying to say,in a VERY roundabout way!! was that she was a child....and how many of us would love to change who and how we were at that age...me for one...If i was known now for who i was then...well it wouldnt be a good report

 

all's good dude... sometimes the rants are half the fun of these forums

their downfall was mostly due their fathers cowardice...... many dutch jewish families survived the holocaust by obtaining forged papers and [trying] to go about life as normally as possible. Annes father initially refused to buy documentation on the black market, and argued with his family that they looked "too jewish" to risk leaving their hiding place at any time. Despite many warnings from friends and family that the hiding place would eventually be discovered.... he ignored them.... still, he survived WW2, mebbe his decision wasn't totally wrong.

Yup, she was only a child.... and i have no doubt that if she were alive today, Anne Frank would look back and wish she'd done things differently.... but, her youth aside, anne was an incredibly intelligent person... intelligent enough to keep a "diary" (even tho' technically, it isn't a diary, it's a collection of her personal thoughts, and most of the recorded events she wrote in the book at a later date) intelligent enough to have over a score of imaginary friends, each with their own personalities and idiosyncrasies..... intelligent enough to re-write, for reasons of her own we assume, huge great chunks of her "diary"... which, unfortunately, is why it should always be seen as a work of fiction, and not a reliable historical source.

and the overall impression i got from the book, was that she was definitely intelligent enough not to act so much like a spoiled brat and sit in the corner bemoaning everything, and doing very very little that was actually constructive