Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young GirlOn June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.
M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne’s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne’s family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building.
Anne and her family called it the “Secret Annex”. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis.
This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl’s life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless. After reading this book, we were forced to look at life in a different way. The luxuries that are provided for us that we take for granted, like money, cars, a house, food, and even rights, were all put into perspective.
“We couldn’t use street cars, go to the theater, couldn’t be out past 8 PM, couldn’t even sit in our own gardens. We had to turn in our bicycles; no swimming pools, beaches, or libraries- we couldn’t even walk on the sunny side of the street. ” This is a quote from Anne’s diary. This just touches upon some of the many simple luxuries that were robbed from her and her family.
Today, most of us would blow a casket if we were so “inconvenienced” as to not be able to drive a car, stay out past midnight even, or not to be able to enjoy sunlight. At one time or another, especially during the summer, each and every one of us makes an appearance at the beach or the local pool. Imagining not even being able to see the sunlight for years at a time really can make one think “maybe its okay that I didn’t get the tan I wanted this summer, or that we couldn’t make the trip to North Carolina”. Almost every person at one point in his or her lives takes something for granted. Just imagining what Anne and her family had to go through makes us realize that life is rough sometimes, and we may not always get what we want, but it could always be worse, and maybe we should learn to take pleasure in the little things life has to offer. From reading this book, we gathered a lot of information.
One of the most important messages was that things don’t come easy for everyone, and you should appreciate what you have when you have it because in a matter of days, it could all be gone. Like we said before, life could always be worse, I mean we could be dead (knock on wood). We knew this girl who had everything that she could possibly want. She was very lucky, yet she never really appreciated what was handed to her every day. One day, while driving to her friends’ house, she was hit by a car, and she wasn’t so lucky anymore.
She could no longer walk, or even talk. In a matter of seconds, her whole life was changed. Had she known this was going to happen, I’m sure there would have been more .
