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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
I can’t believe how close they were to making it to the end.
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I read this book when I was 16, in preparation for a trip to Poland to Auschwitz, and I remember I found it extremely touching and enlightening. I wish to read it again some time in the near future
this book broke my heart in so many ways...
1-the whole world is reading this teenage girl's diary! she talks over and over again about hiding her true feelings from those around her because they just don't understand her, and so the only "person" she has to really confide in is kitty. clearly, the circumstances for us reading her diary are very special, but i still feel as though in some way i'm violating her privacy. i'd have been mortified for anyone, let alone millions and millions of people to read my teenage journals. i get it, i just felt a little bad the whole time.
2-when she talks about wanting to be a journalist, writing something that really matters and is good, and wanting to leave something to live on even after she dies, that is just too haunting for words! she was writing her life's greatest work and didn't even know it. i think that its kind of romantic that although she suffered this great injustice she was still able to achieve her biggest goal, even though she never got to enjoy it. my jaw dropped when i read this dream of hers, and i still can't get it out of my mind.
3-that this girl could experience one of the most horrible events in our world's history and still believe that there is some kind of good in all people is a testament to the optimism of youth. knowing how things ended up for her, when i read this part i just had so much love for her.
4-the fact that she was reunited with her friend leis in the concentration camp had me sobbing. she'd dreamed about her girlfriend and felt so much sadness and guilt for the differences in their fates and i know that she was probably terrified beyond belief in the camp, but i have to think that she must have felt some bittersweet emotions and maybe even relief (of some kind) to know what happened to her friend, as well as to have a friendly face in such an unfriendly place.
5-her father was the only one of the 8 in hiding who survived, and her originally had a few copies of anne's diary printed for close family and friends. i just have to wonder how he felt in reading all of her thoughts, emotions and musings. she said so many wonderful about him, but she also wrote when she was super frustrated and ended up saying pretty hurtful things about her mother, and i can't help but think that those things probably broke his heart a little bit. he was very close with her, and i'm sure he understood things better than i think, but if i'm having a hard time with it, it had to be for him as well. at the same time, i think he was probably so thankful to have something of anne's to remember her by and help to make her dreams come true.
this book wasn't long, and it was a very simple and easy read, but it was a really touching, emotional experience for me that i don't think i'll ever forget.
1-the whole world is reading this teenage girl's diary! she talks over and over again about hiding her true feelings from those around her because they just don't understand her, and so the only "person" she has to really confide in is kitty. clearly, the circumstances for us reading her diary are very special, but i still feel as though in some way i'm violating her privacy. i'd have been mortified for anyone, let alone millions and millions of people to read my teenage journals. i get it, i just felt a little bad the whole time.
2-when she talks about wanting to be a journalist, writing something that really matters and is good, and wanting to leave something to live on even after she dies, that is just too haunting for words! she was writing her life's greatest work and didn't even know it. i think that its kind of romantic that although she suffered this great injustice she was still able to achieve her biggest goal, even though she never got to enjoy it. my jaw dropped when i read this dream of hers, and i still can't get it out of my mind.
3-that this girl could experience one of the most horrible events in our world's history and still believe that there is some kind of good in all people is a testament to the optimism of youth. knowing how things ended up for her, when i read this part i just had so much love for her.
4-the fact that she was reunited with her friend leis in the concentration camp had me sobbing. she'd dreamed about her girlfriend and felt so much sadness and guilt for the differences in their fates and i know that she was probably terrified beyond belief in the camp, but i have to think that she must have felt some bittersweet emotions and maybe even relief (of some kind) to know what happened to her friend, as well as to have a friendly face in such an unfriendly place.
5-her father was the only one of the 8 in hiding who survived, and her originally had a few copies of anne's diary printed for close family and friends. i just have to wonder how he felt in reading all of her thoughts, emotions and musings. she said so many wonderful about him, but she also wrote when she was super frustrated and ended up saying pretty hurtful things about her mother, and i can't help but think that those things probably broke his heart a little bit. he was very close with her, and i'm sure he understood things better than i think, but if i'm having a hard time with it, it had to be for him as well. at the same time, i think he was probably so thankful to have something of anne's to remember her by and help to make her dreams come true.
this book wasn't long, and it was a very simple and easy read, but it was a really touching, emotional experience for me that i don't think i'll ever forget.
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Amazingly, I made it through school without having read this. I knew going in that it is generally used to teach about the horrors of the Holocaust. What I did not expect was a well-written, deeply insightful and self-aware piece of literature that is also a firsthand account of a teenage girl struggling to become an independent adult under very difficult circumstances (as if making it through puberty wasn’t difficult enough!). Over only two years of her life documented in her diary, you witness both a shift in writing style and a great deal of personal growth. I also found that I shared quite a bit in common with Anne (e.g., a love of cats, books, and nature) and felt that had I known her, we may have been good friends. This thought immediately led me to the realization that it could just as easily have been me instead of Anne sequestered in that Annex and eventually carted away. I think if nothing else, that is the main takeaway here.
In her diary, Anne mentions on several occasions that her dream is to grow up and become a famous author/journalist. Sadly, she was never allowed the opportunity to accomplish the former, but she most certainly achieved the latter.
In her diary, Anne mentions on several occasions that her dream is to grow up and become a famous author/journalist. Sadly, she was never allowed the opportunity to accomplish the former, but she most certainly achieved the latter.
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emotional
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inspiring
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