Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank:The Diary of a Young Girl

By Anne Frank

Publisher: Pocketbook Publishing

Published: 1952 in New York

Number of pages: 258
Where found the book: C.H.S library

Story Review

The reason that this book is titled "Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" is because this book is written by Anne Frank and it is her diary that she wrote during world war two.

Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 to her parents Otto Frank and his wife Edith in Germany. She also had an older sister, named Margot. These and The people they live with(Mr. and Mrs.Van Daan and their son,Peter) are the main characters. This book takes place from when Anne is 13, and it ends right before she turns 16,so from the years 1942 to 1945.

At the beginning of this book, Anne is living in her house with her family and is very happy. This book starts on her birthday, the day she gets her diary. As shes writing, she decides that she will write her diary to an imaginary friend named Kitty. She loves her diary because it is the only place where she can express all of her real opinions and thoughts about everything. Anne loves to write and is very happy with her life.

But then her family is forced to go into hiding because Anne's sister, Margot, has been summoned for deportation, which means she would have to go on a train and be taken to a concentration camp. They go into hiding in the office where her father works, in the back rooms that nobody knows are there. They stay there and are well for about two years, until the Germans come and force the people working in the building to tell them where Anne's family is hiding. These are people who have been helping them get food and supplies from the outside world.

Anne and her family are taken to a concentration camp, but the men and women have to go in different places, so she and her father are separated, but she manages to stay with her mother and sister. They stay in little houses with about 4 other women. The houses are infested with lice, so after not very long, they all have lice ,too. The prisoners have to spend 12 hours a day digging sod. Anne stayed in the the camp for almost a year, before she passes away from exhaustion and starvation. Her mother died several months before and her sister had died a couple of days before. Anne died three months before she would have been sixteen. Her father was the only one in their family who survived the concentration camp.

Months after, he returned to Amsterdam. One of the neighbors gave him Annes diary and sketches, which had been left behind when they were taken. At first, he just kept them as a memorial but then he had them published, with the help of a professor, and many revised versions had also come out in the following years.

My Thoughts

I chose this book because i had read different, shorter, versions of this book and wanted to know some more details about Anne Franks life. I liked this book because it shows what it was really like during world war two, from a pespective that i could relate to. I also liked that at the end of this specific copy of the book, it gives the story again, but way shorter, with all of the facts that were unclear in the actual diary. The themes in this book were perserverance and how violence can affect childrens life negatively.

Recommendation

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes factual books because this book is full of interesting information and facts. I would also recommend it to anyone who likes reading auto-biographies.

Christian Perspective

I am not sure if this book was written in a christian perspective or not, because since it is a diary, Anne would have to be a christian for it to have been. But some of the traits she had were christian, like optimism, hope, and always caring about the safety of her family. As a christian, I think that just like Anne perserveered thruogh all of the hardships and always did her very best, we should be our best through christ and in our every day lives.