I remember the letter exchange between two sisters, at that point after reading Margot’s letter, for the first time I realised Anne was still child among them. Of course they were, difficult conditions make you mature and responsible, but there were also other people living under the same roof and in same condition, the suffering had even effect on them. I have read in lot of review that her thoughts were way ahead of her age. If she felt something, her writing definitely made me experience it and thus she overcame my expectation by large margin. ![]() She at times made me laugh, at times made me feel sad. ![]() She thought and wrote over few such things that didn’t occur to my mind until I read it but have applied throughout my life. When I started this book I knew how it would end and who doesn’t! I had the least of the expectation, knowing that she was 13 years old but she just surprised me by the outlook she carried of life. And aren’t diary meant to be something personal? Yes they are, but it was Anne's wish to get her diary published and she even went on to fictionalize the diary by changing names. Reading other reviews (although most people just rate it and proceed) posed me with many other questions and also gave me idea of what people generally think about her and her diary.ĭO WE DESERVE to review or even rate this book diary? I am writing this for my conscience.Įver since I have rated this book, I always end up asking myself that, have I rated it with something it deserved or was it just out of sympathy (some call it pity vote)? By turns thoughtful, moving, and surprisingly humorous, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.īut for this review there is only one. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe” of an old office building. In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. ![]() Taslim Sabil: "Anne had a dream in the book, she said she wanted to keep her memory going alive and I feel like, um, that our school, after it was named after Anne Frank, I feel like, it could spread the message too.Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic-a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. Anne Frank, she found hope in every single thing, even the horrible things that that Nazi did, she sees the good in everything." I asked some of these fifth graders what the book meant to them, and clearly its message came through.Īlexander Dolgikh: "I guess my favorite part was when like, they had hope. "I have kids from Russia, Ukraine, Palestine, Colombia, I mean all over," Angelo says.Īnd the book, she says, led to class discussions "about what our differences are and how we can't necessarily judge someone based on that." For example, "my Muslim kids were like 'Oh, well you know, this is going on in the world with Muslims!' It kind of brought them together." The class spent months reading the book and learning about the Holocaust.Īngelo says her students asked a lot of the questions people around the world have been asking for generations: How could this have happened? How was it allowed to happen?Īnd the book's message was especially resonant in a school as diverse as Anne Frank Elementary, where students come from more than 40 different countries.
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