Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl by Angelica Pearson

  Anne Frank was a girl who lived in Holland during World War II. She lived during the Holocaust, when Hitler’s Nazis occupied Holland .The Nazi’s began by restricting the Jews. Since she was Jewish, there were many rules governing her behavior. She had to wear a yellow star. She could not go to movie theaters or go to stores that were not owned by Jews. She, and all of the other Jews, had curfews of 8PM.
Anne received her diary as a present on her thirteenth birthday. At the beginning of her diary, Anne mentions that she has many friends. Over time, she sees them less and less as she and her friends go into hiding.
After the first few submissions to her diary Anne writes that she will call it Kitty. Each submission from then on is addressed “Dear Kitty.” Sometimes she puts off writing for a few days, or even a week. Once she mentions something about Canadian soldiers. She says that one of her parent’s friends saw a few of them just sitting on the sidewalk. One of the soldiers asks Anne’s friend for a match for his cigarette. The soldier tells Anne’s friend that he was a crewman on a plane and his pilot burned up when the Germans shot down his plane.
When the Holocaust started, she and her family and a couple of other families went into hiding. Where she moved, there was a room to hide from the police. The hiding room was concealed behind a cupboard. The whole apartment was supposed to be abandoned, so they could not even flush the toilet for fear of being heard, then getting caught and arrested. And then killed in a concentration camp. The apartment was called the Secret Annex.
Anne started to like a boy named Peter Van Daan from one of the families they hid with. She wrote that sometimes she and Peter snuck off to the attic so they could be alone together. Peter was 2 or 3 years older than Anne. When Anne’s dad finds out about them meeting, he says that he does not want the two of them meeting any more.
Anne and her sister Margot had to share a room. She did not like her sister and resented having to share a room with her. Anne wrote that she longed for fresh air and wanted to go outside. She did not like being a zoo animal.
One day she and the other familes got caught by the police. Then they were sent to a concentration camp. The last time she saw her father was when the men were separated from the women at the concentration camp. She and her sister were sent to Belsen in Germany. Her sister Margot died a few days after they arrived. At the concentration camp most people died either from terrible diseases like typhoid or were killed in gas chambers by the Nazis. Anne died from typhoid in the concentration camp.

Reflection:

I liked parts of the diary. I enjoyed the parts before they went to the secret annex. Anne sounded happier and she talked about her friends. That was just more pleasant.
Then after she went to the secret annex, some parts were a little depressing. I did not like that she sounded so sad, that she wanted fresh air, to see the sun, to go the park. I was sad because of her unhappiness. I would rather not have been her. She sounded like she did not want to be cooped up and she was mad at herself for being a Jew.
This was another point in history where someone was being discriminated against just because of the way they were born. That is horrible.
This was a great book at first, but I just did not want to continue reading it because her life was too hard. I just felt guilty that I have such a great life and it did not feel fair. This book shows that at some points in history this is just a cruel, cruel world. I wish sometimes that this world was like a fairy tale and all of the endings were happy. I wish there were always princes in shining armor to whisk you away from the terrible people who do cruel things.
It sounded like Anne just wanted to be part of that story and have a Knight save her from the evil dragon of the Nazis.