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.

Fire, the most important thing for survival

If, by chance, you are stranded on an island or lost in the deep woods, fire is the most important thing to have to survive. If you have a fire you can stay warm, you can keep away wild animals, you can signal a plane, and countless other things necessary for survival. In the book ' Hatchet', fire brings hope for Brian and provides a friend for him. In the movie ' Castaway', Chuck was struggling for a fire because he knew it was essential for survival. They were both striving for fire because they both knew they needed it to survive. Both Chuck and Brian spent countless hours trying to make a fire. They both knew that fire was the difference between life and death. They both knew that with fire, they cook the food they got and boil water to make it sanitary so they wouldn't get sick from it. These are only some of the endless reasons fire is the most essential component to have for survival and that is why fire is the most important thing for survival.

The Postcard

The Postcard

By Tony Abbott

This book was published by the Little, Brown and Company company in the year 2008 in New York. I found this book in our school library and it has 357 pages. I chose this book because when I saw the cover and read the back it looked like a very original and interesting book.

This book is titled "The Postcard," because when Jason has to stay in Florida with his dad after his grandma, who he hardly knows, dies, he finds a postcard in one of her old desks. This postcard leads to a mystery about his grandma and a man who is supposedly Jason's grandpa, but nobody knows who or where Jason's grandpa is, and the postcard might lead him to find out. He also finds a magazine that has a story in it that's written by his "grandpa" about him and the girl that he loves, but her father hates him and is determined to keep them apart.

Before Jason has even had time to settle in his grandmas apartment that him and his dad are fixing up to sell, his dad falls off of a ladder ( after drinking a couple of beers) while trying to fix an eaves trough and is rushed to the hospital. Jason then meets the girl who mows his grandmas lawn. Her name is Dia , which means day.

Then, Jason finds a pin hole in the postcard, which is of the Hotel De Soto, in one of the windows. He decides to go check it out and, once inside the hotel, finds that Dia has followed him. So he tells her the whole story and she thinks its interesting and decides to help him. So they go on a big adventure and have people chasing after them and trying to stop them, for some reason unknown to them, but they figure that the story that they are finding is worth something other than the value of finding Jason's grandpa.

Will Jason and Dia get the rest of the story and find out who Jason's grandpa really is? Read the book to find out!

This book was not written from a christian perspective because they do not mention God at all in the book and it could have been written with a lot more Christianity in it. The character Jason, for example says a couple of words that the author blocked out. If Jason would have been written about in a more christian way, the author would just have had him say something he wouldn't have to block out.

I really enjoyed this book because I love mystery and adventure books. I liked that it was somewhat realistic but had a touch of fantasy in it and that it had some mystery in it too. There wasn't really anything that I didn't like about this book.

I would recommend this book to people who like adventure and mystery because this book is full of both of those things.

Beige Teriyaki - A Spelling Story

The colonel is an unnecessary villain. He created a nauseous symphony epidemic and put the germ in the towns water supply. It was not definite what would stop this weird obstacle. They decided to put teriyaki, coloured beige, on a piece of shrapnel and put it on the hacienda that had graffiti on it. They had to make sure that parliament wouldn't interfere, so they got a sophomore to get a galleon full of caffeine memorabilia and disguise it as a ceramics workshop to distract them. Meanwhile, anxiously waiting for the colonel while hiding in some trees by the hacienda, they heard a scream. It was the crazy colonel! He had gotten caught in the beige teriyaki and, since they were filming it, they had to censor out some of his words , but he was mostly shouting out random word and it sounded something like this.

"Allegiance to the unwieldy beige teriyaki! Counsel the weird bureau cache and lien a fudgeevacuum. Embarrass the unwieldy cache and separate or disentangle the beige vigilante"

Though unnecessary, Bob stepped out and started to vacuum a squirrel. The colonel, who was still vulnerable in the beige teriyaki, suddenly shouted "APOSTROPHE" . "That was random"said Bob. And then he called the police, who took the colonel to a beneficial ceramics class. The End

Indian Captive

Indian Captive
The true story of Mary Jemison.
Retold by Lois Lenski
This book was published in 1941 by the harpercollins printing company in New York. It has 147 pages. I found this book in my scool library.

Mary Jemison lives with her father, mother, 2 brothers, and 3 sisters on their farm in Pennsylvania. It is the year 1758 and they farm corn for a living. Marys father calls her corn tassel because her hair is the colour of corn. He jokes that she doesnt have to worry about Indians because if they saw her they would think she was a stalk of corn and pass her by.

Then one day her house is attacked by Indian warriors. They take her and her younger brother separate from the rest of her family as they travel. When they arrive at the indian camp, she and her brother are separated. She learns to work in the corn and make pots out of river clay. The indians call her corn tassel, reminding her of her father. She learns to work, play, and llive like an indian.

One day a man comes to the camp. He is an englishmen. Her ' sisters' tell her to go hide in the corn field from the drunk native man who wants to sell her to him so he can buy more 'fire water' But when the choice comes to her to either go with th englishmen or stay with her new family, which will she choose?

Christian Perspective

I think that this book could have been written in a more christian perspective but it did have christianity in it. Mary would sometimes pray and recite the lords prayer but she didnt really ask God to help her very much. If she had of handled her problems in a more christian way and prayed more I probably would have liked it more.

My thoughts

I liked this book because it tells about how the senecas live their everyday life and it tells about their culture and ways of life. I reccomend this book to people who like hearing about other cultures and like biographies.