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.

The diary of a young girl

The diary of a young girl
By Sean Russell

The diary of a young girl, by Anne Frank is about a girl in the middle of the Holocaust, World War 2. the Holocaust is where Hiliter is trying to get rid of Jewish people. Jewish people were not allowed in there stores and if they were cought they would be killed. Anne Frank is Jewish and she started to keep a diary. Anne Frank went into hidingto stay away from Nazis. Her family shared the same room with other familes and they did not have that much food and more familes kept comeing. You could not flush the toilet or someone would hear the flushing of the toilet. A lot of times police brake into the office and surch for Jewish people. After a wile Anne Frank started to fall in love with a young boy named Peter Van Daan who lived in the other famly witch lived in the same apartment as Anne Frank. Peter Van Daan was 17 years old and he liked Margot Anne Frank’s sister. Anne Frank and Peter Van Daan sneek to the attic to see each other. Anne Frank told her dad about her and Peter Van Daan. Anne Frank’s dad told her about Peter Van Daan Anne Frank’s dad said that Peter Van Daan did not have enough character for her, Anne Frank’s dad also told her to stop seeing each other in the attic. Anne Frank wroght a leter to her parents that she does not have enough respect for her parents to listen to them about her and Peter Van Daan. Anne Frank makes up with her dad in time for her 15th birthday and she got a lot of presents for her birthday. Later on Anne Frank finds out that Peter Van Daan is not as good as a friend as she thought. Anne starts to wonder about the future, she thanks what willhappen to her family, she thanks what will happen to her friends and what will happen to her. After she started to think about the future she stopped wrighting her diary. After that Anne Frank, Peter Van Daan,and every one else she knew was captured and sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz Germany. Anne Frank was seprated from her family. The Nazis seporated the men from the women that was the last time Anne Frank saw her dad. Anne Frank and her sister were moved to a camp in Belsen Germany. Anne Frank was sick when she got to Belsen Germany Margot died a little after they got to Belsen Germany. Anne Frank found her school friend Lies a few days later Anne Frank died too. The Nazis would put a lot of people in a room and fill it with gas that would kill every one in side. Then they would take the bodies and make a big ditch and through them in to the big ditch then bary them. After Hitler killed him self the Nazis started to shoot everyone in the concentration camp but they did not have enough bullets so the Nazis locked the concentration camp up and left every one to starve. Then the Americans came to bring food water and medical supplies to the people in the concentration camps. Thn the Americans wan the war and now Jewish are not tortchered any more they are free and Hitler’s teachings are gone just like Hitler.

annfrank:by chance

Anne Frank, the Diaries of a
Young girl is about a twelve year old Jewish girl who lives her days a normal life and goes to a school with all her friends. she gets a diary from her parents for her birthday and names it kitty. every day she writes to her friend kitty about her day i the diary.Anne’s father's name was Otto but was mostly referred to as Pim. Her moms name was mummy . She had a sister named Margot who she never really liked.Nazi police send a call-up notice for her father and for her sister Margot for their leaving to a concentration camp. They hurrry and go to their hiding place.Anne tells Kitty that her Jewish friends are being taken away by the dozen. They are loaded into cattle trucks and sent to concentration camps.another familiy named the van danns moved into the hiding spot with them. Daddy gets sick but they cannot call a doctor .Dussel was a dentist who was living alone after his wife fled the country . He was chosen by everyone to be the eighth person to join in the living area. With such small living space and not enough room for every Anne was forced to share half her room with him. Soon everyone was getting on each other’s nerves and the best way to avoid a potential problem was to just keep quiet and mind your own business. After awhile ann feels alone because the vann danns dont like her, her mom dosent understand her, her sister is in her own world and her dad still thinks of her as a littile kid. Every nite her and peter go upstairs and talk story. After awihle her affection twords peter is all she can think of. peter can only think about her all day too. At first dussel appeared to be a nice person minding his business. Him and Anne fight over the few hours they have at the desk . Anne is also not to fond of sharing a room with an old man she never knew till then. at one point in this story dussel puts his head on anns naked body to fell her pulse. then ann writes to kitty ''who does this guy think he is?'' at the end of the story German women and their children are being evacuated. Anne says that everyone's temper has improved and She is excited to be learning English. my opion on this book is not a good one. i think that ann frank is a lil wieard becuse she names her diary kitty. my type off books are actiom and mystry. i think that reading this book was like going to an old black and white movie. it was boring

The diary of Anne Frank

The diary of Anne Frank :Jenson ''Biansan'' Koga
In 1933 the frank family moved to the Netherlands to hide or run away from the Nazi persecution. They were doing just fine until 1940 when in that time the Netherlands were just occupied by the Germans. By the new set of rules/laws there were all against the Jewish people. Such as some of the rules were that the Jewish people could not go to the same schools as Germans and they could not even ride their cars. I think that the worst one is that all of the Jewish people have to wear a yellow star to identify that they are Jewish people. The Germans also boycotted the Jewish business in the town. Most of the Jewish people were arrested, harassed, and also put into concentration camps were they would be brought together and they got killed. The franks made a decision that they wanted to go into hiding by doing this they would put their lives into great danger and risk. "Happy birthday too you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear Anne happy birthday to you." On Anne’s thirteenth birthday that she got a special gift she got a diary she was so very excited of what she got. She started to write in it about her life and the details about it by including some descriptions of her friends, the events that were going on in her school, and even the boys that she liked. In a month or even less she started to write about her carefree life as a child and I could see that it was a little hard for her and she also wrote about her family going into hiding because of the Germans doing these things to the Jewish people. Margot Anne’s older sister that was sixteen years old had been called up. To be called up is to mean that the Gestapo called her up. The Gestapo is the Germanys brutal secret police force. It most likely that if you were called up that would mean that they would send you to a concentration camp and probably beat you up and eventually kill you. So the Frank family was preparing to go into hiding in their fathers annex the fathers name is Otto and his family came from a wealthy background until his family’s money was lost in World War 1. So the Frank family was sending furniture and most of there stuff to the annex to stay. The secret annex is in Otto’s office building. They were not the only ones to stay in the annex. There was another family the Van Daans too were staying in the annex. The Frank family after invited one more person to share the annex and he was Mr. Dussel. While they were hiding in the annex the Franks used a radio to see how everything was going and how the War was going on too. Still yet Anne was still writing in her diary but now she was writing about all well most of the events that were happening in the War. The Gestapo found the Frank family and then the got arrested on August 4, 1944. There were two secretaries that found a couple of pages of Anne’s diary and they gave it to Miep Gies. Miep Gies is Otto’s assistant in there office. Miep Gies keep the couple of diary pages in hi desk draw and he didn’t even attempt to read it. In 1945 the War ended and Miep Gies gave the couple of pages to the living Otto. The sad part is that Anne and Margot both died of Typhus at the concentration camp. The died on March of 1945 and there mother died of exhaustion and hunger of January of 1945. The Van Daans and Mr. Dussel also died in their concentration camps too. Otto Frank knew that Anne wanted to be a published writer and he looked through the diary and took some pages to some day gets published.


My Reaction:
My reaction to this book is that I personally don’t like book and I don’t like to read because I am more of an outdoors type of guy and I always want to be moving around. But I sort of liked this book because my uncle was in a concentration camp in World War 2 so that is why I was sort of interested. I wanted to know what you would have to do in there. But now I see that it is kind of like a jail but the only thing is that your whole family is in there too.

anne frank by harrison

Anne receives a diary on her thirteenth birthday. She names it kitty. One day, Nazi police send a call-up notice for her father and for her sister Margot for their leaving to a concentration camp. They hurrry and go to their hiding place, the Secret Annexe. Another family, the Van Daans with their son Peter, arrives. Anne particularly dislikes him Mrs. Van Daan. She also complains that the grown-ups criticize her. \Anne tells Kitty that her Jewish friends are being taken away by the dozen. They are loaded into cattle trucks and sent to concentration camps.Daddy gets sick, but they cannot call a doctor, since they are in hiding. Anne reads a book on puberty and longs to have her period. She does not like to say her prayers with , for she finds cold. She gets jealous of Margot sometimes.They take in another person, Mr. Dussel. He is stubborn. Anne often feels guilty for being safe in hiding while her Jewish friends are probably suffering.Anne feels frustrated that she is criticized so often. She still does not get along with Mrs. Van Daan, and still finds Mummy cold, refusing to pray with her, upsetting her greatly.Anne cannot sleep because of the air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and coffee for breakfast, spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner. Still, Anne feels lucky that they have food and shelter, that they are able to laugh at each other, and that they have books and a radio. There is an announcement that Italy has surrendered. This gives them hope for peace.
Anne chronicles a day in the Annexe, describing many of the activities and personalities of the people in the Secret Annexe Anne is so affected by the tension that at times she goes to bed crying. She longs for fresh air and wishes that the darkness and cruelty of the war would subside so that they can find beauty and safety She has a dream of one of her friends, and feels guilty. She hopes that she prays hard enough to save her friends and family.She and Peter Van Daan develop a crush on each other She remembers Peter Wessel, who she loved before going into hiding. They combine in her mind, and she feels intense longing. The grownups are critical of the. Relationship Anne worries that she talks too much, but he likes her cheerfulness. She wants to help him overcome his loneliness. She hears that they will be making a collection of diaries and letters after the war, and wants to publish her diary. She has faith that God will raise them out of suffering and that one day, the world will learn from the Jews She is often downcast, but never in despair.She wrote her dad a letter about how he did not help her through her struggle to find herself and he is so upset that she feels guilty and realizes that she was wrong
Sometimes they go hungry, but even at their worst, they still have hope and are able to find cheerful moments On d day the English land on the French coast There is great discussion about the hope of liberation, and they have fresh courage and strength Anne celebrates her fifteenth birthday She wishes she could look at nature more often, and not through a dirty window Many cities have fallen to the Allies, and the mood is optimistic.She becomes disappointed in Peter. She does not want him to lean on her. She wonders how she has held onto her ideals in the face of all the cruelty of war She still believes that people are really good at heart. She has a deeper, purer side that no one knows. She worries that people think she is superficial With this, her diary ends, for on August 4, 1944, the Secret Annexe was raided and they were taken away to German and Dutch concentration camps.

I think personally that this is not my kind of book it is a good book and it tells the life of a young girl how ever many years ago but i just was not interested in it if i could change one thing in this book i would deffinetly change just the kind of person that was telling it i think it would be more intersesting if it was a boy telling it and what the boy had to go through

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.

Anne Frank-Book review by;Ben Steuri

Anne Frank, the Diaries of a Young girl is about a twelve year old Jewish girl who lives a normal life and goes to a normal school with all her friends. Anne’s father's name was Otto but was typically referred to as Pim. Her mother’s name was Edith (might not have been mentioned in the book) but was referred to as mummy. She had a sister named Margot and they got along fine for the most part. Margot was always smarter than Anne and was thought of as being better. When the evil dictator from Germany, Adolf Hitler, begins his long conquest for genocide on all Jewish people, Anne and her family were slowly being deprived of all their pleasures. The threats on all Jews became so strong, that the Frank family moved to an isolated apartment above an office complex. They called it their “Secret Annex”. The “Secret Annex” was located behind a book shelf through a secret door. Directly under them were the office and a warehouse which was regularly active throughout the day. This meant that there would have to be certain hours you could run water and go to the bathroom. They were soon joined by another Jewish family, the Van Daans. This added three more people into the house. There was Mr. Van Daan, Mrs. Van Daan, and Peter who was just a couple years older than Anne. Everyone got to know each other in just a short amount of time and had already made their opinions on one another. In Anne’s opinion Peter was too shy, Mrs. Van Daan was too aggravating and Mr. Van Daan was never a real problem. Anne’s 13th birthday came around and she got a puzzle, some sweets, money, books, etc……and most importantly, a diary. Anne would begin to write in her diary regularly and record what was going on. She believed that paper was more patient than people so she would write anything she wished and for however long she wanted to. Life was getting harder for her to constantly be bothered by everyone and be told what to do. On Tuesday November 17, 1942, the eighth member of the annex arrived. His name was Albert Dussel. Dussel was a dentist who was living alone after his wife fled the country when war broke out. He was chosen by everyone to be the eighth person to join in the living quarters. With such small living quarters and not enough room for all, Anne was forced to share a room with him. Things were getting tight with the extra body, therefore causing more and more problems to occur. Soon, everyone was getting on each other’s nerves and the best way to avoid a potential problem was to just keep quiet and mind your own business. For the next following year, boredom, depression and pessimism were all factors in the daily routine. Good news on the radio would rarely come, and when it did it wouldn’t stay for long. Air raid alarms would go on constantly throughout the night. Anne would often cry about her situation and how much she had missed all her friends. Since she had no connection to the outside world, she would always be wandering what her friends were doing and if they were even still alive (but she would never really know). Finally, on August 4th 1944, this group of people desperate for freedom, are turned in by a Dutch informer. The Gestapo invaded the office, made their way upstairs, and arrested the Jews. They were jammed tightly into a train and taken to the Nazi’s concentration camp where their fate would then be decided. They would all be branded with there own “serial code” numbers, have their heads shaved, and then be put to work. The weak would be killed in some of the most brutal ways. Anne eventually ended up in Auschwitz, one of the worst concentration camps ever built. Anne died in a matter of days before her camp was freed by British forces.
My Reaction:

In my opinion this book was well written for a girl that’s only 12-14 years old. Two years ago when I was at my old school in 6th grade, my class read this book as well and one girl in my class actually knew a holocaust survivor and had her come to the school and share her experiences. She was about 89 years old and still had her number tattooed on her forearm. She told true stories about how she was raped and had six children who all died. It was very emotional for her but it was a good learning experience for us students to learn a part of history firsthand.