Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

48 reviews

quills4days's review

funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Violence, Excrement, Genocide, Hate crime, Medical content, Police brutality, Racism, Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Religious bigotry, Torture, Xenophobia, Grief, and War

lucyselim's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

I have read this book a few times, but not since I was a teenager and I forgot how raw and emotional and graphic and detailed this is. As I was reading this book I started to feel like I was 14 all over again, like we understood each other. And then there would be another mention of the outside world and I would remember the reality of her situation. 
I finished this at work so I had a hard time holding back my tears as I read the afterword. I try not to think about all the work Anne could have done with the years of her life that were stolen. Instead, it seems imperative to thank Anne's father Otto for having followed his daughters wishes and allowed the publication of her work.
"I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Antisemitism, Death, Genocide, War, Confinement, and Sexual content

Minor: Medical content, Vomit, Violence, Xenophobia, and Toxic relationship

sweetmusic22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is quite a powerful and insightful read. While she does talk about what it was like to hide from the Nazis, she also opened up about normal things that every teenager goes through in their lifetime. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Antisemitism, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, and Death

cptnstphy's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

The Diary of Anne Frank is a deeply important account of the Holocaust, especially in my opinion because it's written from a child's perspective, which is a unique perspective that should be more closely studied. Anne's thoughts range from tortured at the knowledge of the war's horrors, to the delight and confusion of adolescence, to boredom, to insightful observations and clever remarks. Remembering her brings gratitude to my life that I haven't personally experienced her plight, but more importantly her words are a reminder to prioritize resisting bigotry, ignorance, racism, and interpersonal hierarchy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Violence, Confinement, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, War, and Death

Minor: Torture

booksanna's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

A sad story of a bright girl, killed by the horrors of Holocaust and war. This could also be a coming of age story because of how much Anne changes throughout 2 years in the Annex. Really eye-opening and heartbreaking story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Antisemitism

Moderate: War

Minor: Death

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.0

Very interesting and very sad especially the afterword. I learned and read parts of this in school, but never the whole thing. I do have to say don’t go into this expecting like an action packed diary because it’s not it’s this poor girls diary where she shared her preteen/teenage thoughts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Antisemitism, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Religious bigotry, Torture, Grief, War, and Violence

cereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, Confinement, War, and Death

polly_lilith's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Religious bigotry, Torture, Violence, and War

maess's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, and Religious bigotry

josephinewillow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

I decided not the give this book a proper rating as I just wasn’t comfortable with doing so. But this book was heartbreaking and inspiring. For such a young girl she had beautifully profound thoughts and taught many lessons that I think everyone could learn something from. If Anne was able to grow older, I am certain she would have continued to be a courageous, self aware and loving individual and turned out to be an incredibly talented and successful author! 💗💗

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Confinement, and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Genocide