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A review by linkalipski
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
5.0
Among my favourite books!
The memoir of Anne Frank, a teenager of a Jewish family who has to hide during WWII, is a well-written diary that gives us a glimpse of their experience of war.
Rare are 14-year-olds that can write with so much wit, awareness and style.
This is not about the war per se, it is about the life of a teenager. It just happens that the war was happening around her and that she and her family were a direct target. She has typical teenage thoughts and wishes, from a need for privacy to love and desires as well as mood-swings and deep reflections on life.
Her experience of the war is also a poignant testimony of the horrors that wars input on people's and to what people will endure while surviving.
I laughed at times, I compared our teenage experiences, I felt close to her and I cried calm and defeated tears at the end.
A must read!
The memoir of Anne Frank, a teenager of a Jewish family who has to hide during WWII, is a well-written diary that gives us a glimpse of their experience of war.
Rare are 14-year-olds that can write with so much wit, awareness and style.
This is not about the war per se, it is about the life of a teenager. It just happens that the war was happening around her and that she and her family were a direct target. She has typical teenage thoughts and wishes, from a need for privacy to love and desires as well as mood-swings and deep reflections on life.
Her experience of the war is also a poignant testimony of the horrors that wars input on people's and to what people will endure while surviving.
I laughed at times, I compared our teenage experiences, I felt close to her and I cried calm and defeated tears at the end.
A must read!