A Review About The Diary of Anne Frank

I want to start by saying that it is a difficult book to read for me. This is a diary written by the thirteen-year-old Anne Frank. In the first pages, It tells about the change in the social structure during the Nazi era and the effects of this change on herself and her family. Since she does not have a close friend, she decides to write in the diary. And her diary becomes her one and only friend during their hiding in the Secret Annex. 

“I want to go on living even after my death!” she says once. Her wish came true, actually. Anne Frank is now immortal. Her diary translated into hundreds of languages. There are various theatre plays about her. 

Anne Frank

When I compare the diary I've kept at the age of 13 with Anne's diary, I can see how good Anne Frank at writing. All the suffering she was struggling turn a thirteen-year-old kid into a fourteen-year-old young adult. There is no doubt she would be a great author or journalist just like she wanted, if she had lived. Maybe, she would write the best novel that describes the period.

In order to understand the depictions in the diary, I searched the images of the Secret Annexi they had to hide for two years. It became a museum, you can visit it when you go to Amsterdam. 

The Families hiding in the Secret Annex

There were different families living in the same hiding place. They had difficult times there. Tensions were experienced because of the tension brought by WWII. 

Imagine listening to a radio where you hear hundreds of people were killed every day. They were glad to be alive, but at the same time, they felt guilty because they couldn't help them.

Imagine waking up middle of the night with a thinking: "will the Gestapo find us?"

Imagine shaking from feet to head after hearing a noise outside.

Imagine not finding a single food sometimes

We do not know how to live in this way. I hope that we never have to learn. This is the biggest reason why I recommend this book. To experience this life without actually experince it. 

The Secret Annex, Anne Frank Museum, Amsterdam.

This is a diary of a young Anne Frank. Nothing more. Perhaps it is therefore shown as one of the simplest and most distorting works of art telling of the time of war.

Germany, which was on the lost side of the First World War, was forced to pay a massive war reparations. Hyperinflation has begun. The money became nearly valueless, that it was used to warm up. During the same period, unemployment tended to increase, the unemployed German people held Hitler's party in power. 

They were accused of Jews as the reason.This hatred led to World War II, the death of millions and the genocide of a race. 

In the past; war, racism, genocide caused millions of people lost their lives. Anne Frank was just one of these people. This book was published for a lesson for people so that they would not experience this suffer again, but nothing has changed yet. 

There is not a single sentence that you will not read without empathizing. What we read is not fiction. This makes the diary more striking. We are reading a life-filled girl approaching to death. In many pages, they are making future plans. But most of them couldn't see the end of the war. Little Anne is one of them.  They were caught in the Secret Annex, each of them being sent to a different camp. She lost her life two months before the liberation of his camp. Anne Frank is a symbol for many people. A book that everyone should read.

"In spite of everything, I still believe that everyone is good at heart." Anne Frank

Emel