Anne Frank: The diary of a young girl Steven Baptiste

Anne frank begins by writing about herself as a happy go lucky Jewish girl living in 1942 Holland. Her life consisted of all the things a girl would probably want back then. Lots of friends, attention from many boys, a sister, ands two loving parents providing an education, food, clothing and all around care for their child. On her twelve birthday she receives a sum of gifts including a party game, chocolates, a puzzle, a brooch, books, money and a diary in which she writes about everything. Her happy life soon changes when their family has to go into hiding because of the persecution of Jews during WWII. Their family moves with the Van Danns another Jewish family, and they live in a hidden room behind a cupboard. Anne Frank describes the hidden room as the Secret Annexe. Anyways, Anne Frank writes about every imaginable thing that comes to mind including her affection with Peter, the quarrelling between the Van Danns, her father, how irritating Mr.Dussel is, the war, politics ETC ETC ETC! First lets talk about her feelings toward Peter. Anne begins writing about Peter as her friend. Later on in the secret annexe Anne doesn't seem to confide in anyone to tell her deepest darkest secrets. Her mother doesn't understand her, the Van Danns and Dussel seem irritated about her, her sister I guess is doing her own trip, and Anne's father simply thinks of Anne as a child. Every evening Anne goes upstairs by the window at night and talk. Each day sharing closer feelings towards each other. Anne talks to Peter as someone she can trust and feel comfortable to talk to about anything. One day, as Peter is called downstairs, he gives Anne a kiss and the whole next 10 pages is about that kiss. The next couple of days her affection towards Peter seems to grow stronger and stronger until she feels there is nothing else worth more than her and Peter. Peter also needed someone to confide in with all the trouble and despair going on. His parents quarrelling doesn't seem to bother him much but the rest of the residents of the Secret Annexe think its hilarious. As tensions rose between everybody due to living in small tight spaces, the weather, the increasing chance of being captured, the Van Danns find any stupid thing to fight about. Anne describes it as one word, one sentence and them BAM! they're off arguing about the dumbest thing you could think of. Anne says everyone tries hard not to laugh but sometimes they cant hold it in. Mrs. Van Dann's way to entertain herself out of it all is being a flirt. At first it was with Otto Frank, Anne's father then when Otto ignored the women she turned it on Dussel.Neither was fond of her behavior. Dussel is a whole other story. invited to stay with the family, the old doctor stays with Anne. At first he appeared as a nice kind gentleman just minding his business when later it seems the tensions got to him. Him and Anne fight over the few hours they have at the desk and Dussel disapproves of Anne wasting his time by reading her Roman and Greek mythology books. Anne is also not to fond of sharing a room with an old man she never knew till then. One awkward moment Anne describes is when she was very sick and Dussel lays on her naked chest in order to hear her breathing. Anne writes in her book Who does this guy think he is! The war going on was all listened through the illegal radio held in their room in those dark hours at night while the guns were blazing through the night. Every so often Anne gives us brief news about the series of events going on. She talks about the Germans capturing this town and the next and then the allies winning another battle and liberating cities etc etc.

In my opinion this book was not my kind of book. At times I felt uninterested reading it. I like books about adventures and survival. I thought Anne was too emotional about things. her descriptions of EVERYTHING was kind of soap opera-ish. It felt like a big drama being played over and over in my head. I give honor though to Anne Frank because her book was her wish for her voice to be remembered throughout the ages. Without Anne's diary we probably might not have known much about the life of Jews in WWII. I hope her voice will be heard for all those that wish to listen and that her life still lives throughout many.