Have you ever read "The Diary of Anne Frank", and what do you think of it?

Question

I just recently finished this remarkable autobiography, and I was shocked at the diabolical torture this young child went through. Ever since then, I've been looking at the glass as not half empty; I've been looking at other people's misfortunes in another way. I've been looking at the whole picture, helping out the best way I can.

Answer 1

I loved it as well. I read it when I was 10 and again in college for a class on women writers. The book opened my eyes to the fact that injustice can happen to anyone anywhere.

Answer 2

I read the book back in high school. Even then, but more now that I've grown and aged, I realize how trivial most of my complaints are.

Anne was a young girl experiencing all the things young girls experience, and she should have been able to experience them out in the streets of Amsterdam with her family and friends, and her first love should not have been her last. And, she should not met her too early death because somebody disapproved of her religion.

Answer 3

It was heart-breaking, because Anne was only a teenage girl (and the same age I was, when I first read it) who was facing a situation that no one should be facing, and yet remained true to herself. She got angry, she had crushes, she was silly...and of course the eventually outcome was tragic.

I had the opportunity to visit the 'Anne Frank House' when I was a teenager...it wasn't quite the museum it is now, but we were allowed to climb those narrow steps, up the attic room...the experience was unforgettable, and to try to put it into words is still impossible, 25 years later.

Answer 4

Everytime I read that book, it makes my complaints look so small. I can feel her pain and it made me cry the first time I read that diary. It's honestly a great book - it inspires me to be a better person. But it's not just a book, it is a series of chapters from someone's life and shows us how terrifying war can be, the constantly looming danger of death and inspite of all that Anne could find the sunshine in her life.

Answer 5

A young girl was just writing a diary. She was thinking the things girls her age think. She was normal, but life was not. This has undoubtedly become one of the definitive books on the holocaust. I think I was about her age when I read it the first time. Prior to then, I had no idea of the extermination of Jews. A young girl just living her life has told the whole world about the Nazi terror.

Answer 6

If you liked The Diary of Anne Frank, you HAVE TO see the movie Freedom Writers. We're watching it in my English classes. It's a true story, too.

Answer 7

Yes I did read it a long, long time ago. It was interesting to read about a young girl's thoughts during World War II and here struggles with interpersonal realationships during a stressful time. Unfortunately, the story had a sad ending.

Answer 8

I've read it a couple of times, and I have of course seen the old movie version. It certainly makes one stop and think about just how fortunate we are to be free from the sort of tyranny that she, her family, and too many others faced in their lives.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

It was a book written by a "young innocent" who believed that there was good in everyone. The folk that destroyed her and her family were the "lurking demons" out there who, most assuredly, went to "hell." Peace, Love and God Bless.