The Diary Of Anne Frank

Paola Rivera

          Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl living during the time of war, prejudice, genocide, and fear. During World War II, millions of Jews were killed and thousands hid behind the shadows of hatred. Anne and her family were forced into hiding with four other people, including The Van Daan’s family and Mr. Dussel, while the Nazis attacked their home country. While the world was changing around Anne in those depressing, long two years that they were in hiding, Anne writes in her diary that she received for her birthday. Little did Anne and her family know that almost 70 years after the diary was first given to Anne, their story would still be read all over the world.  

         Anne Frank, the author and the protagonist of Anne Frank: Diary of A Young Girl starts to write her story on June 14, 1942, two days after her birthday. She confides in her diary and it is her best friend throughout those two years. Every thought, feeling, shiver, and tear that any of the seven people hiding with Anne has ever went through, was written in Anne’s diary.

         Anne is an amazing writer, her story moves you, she shows lots of imagery, which makes you feel like it’s 1942 and you are right next to Anne hiding. Anne is a well-educated, caring, kind, and sassy young girl. And while she writes in her diary, you can tell how much she’s growing up. She goes from being a careless thirteen year-old girl, to a caring more knowledgeable-about-the-world 15 year old young women.

          Even after her diary entries have stopped, her story stays in your mind. It’s a lingering, well-written, exciting, epistolary novel and great for young adolescents, because you will always be wondering what mysteries await you on the next page. Anne writes with passion, she never writes just to write, she writes because she loves it and that’s what makes it an excellent reading selection.