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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
informative
medium-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
dark
hopeful
informative
sad
slow-paced
Of course I knew the story before finally reading this at the age of almost 30. I do wish I had read it before. I don’t know how to word it but although there are no mentions of concentration camps etc, it’s almost more of a sad read because you see just how normal they were, typical people and teenagers dealing with growing up while stuck in hiding. It feels relatable at parts, which is even more haunting.
inspiring
sad
slow-paced
it’s hard to read when you know how it ends. every time anne starts losing faith or comparing the end of the war to a “castle in the sky,” you want to remind her to stay optimistic!!! but for what?
i cannot believe how self aware and witty she was! she would have been a successful journalist and based on her love of pop culture i do think she would’ve been a belieber. besides how intelligent and well-spoken she was, she was so normal. i could see my teenage self in her, and many of my past students. her normalcy is what makes the ending hurt the most.
at least we can say she does go on living even after her death. i wish we could say she didn’t go in vain, but have we as a society learned and improved from the minds that were responsible for anne’s fate?
i cannot believe how self aware and witty she was! she would have been a successful journalist and based on her love of pop culture i do think she would’ve been a belieber. besides how intelligent and well-spoken she was, she was so normal. i could see my teenage self in her, and many of my past students. her normalcy is what makes the ending hurt the most.
at least we can say she does go on living even after her death. i wish we could say she didn’t go in vain, but have we as a society learned and improved from the minds that were responsible for anne’s fate?
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
This has to be the most memorable wartime diary/journal I have ever read. It honestly made me feel every emotion under the sun at some point during my reading. I connected with Anne so much that it felt like I truly was Kitty and I grew to care as deeply for her as she wanted the person who read her journal to be. The turmoil that Anne has about not being able to convey her emotions properly in writing or verbally is a problem I too suffer. This book felt both long and short in length. The feeling of being stifled not being able to go outside made me eager for everyone to be free and the war to end, but knowing the fate of everyone made the diary far too short.This diary is very important for people to read because it shows the effects that war has on the human spirit and how important relationships with nature and other beings are. It was amazing to read Anne analyze herself and 7 others in the Secret Annex. She did such a good job seeing everyone's strengths and weaknesses that I really felt I knew them all. The only posts of her diary that I didn't enjoy reading much were of her complaining about how everyone annoyed her so because it was always the same thing. I think it would have been better if she wrote less about complaints she thoroughly explained before and analyzed what she wanted to be, how she wanted to improve herself at the time, and the world events that occurred at the time from her point of view more. In the end I'm glad that Anne was able to be a writer even though she never got to grow into being an adult. My rating reflects how I feel Anne was as a writer from age 13-15; I am sure she would have been a great writer has she been given the chance.