The+Diary+of+a+Young+Girl

=// Title: The Diary of a Young Girl //= = = Author: Anne Frank Anne Frank's diary was discovered in an attic in which she spent the last years of her life. This diary is a powerful reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. In 1942, a thirteen year old Jewish girl named Anne Frank fled her home in Amsterdam to go into hiding with her family and another family in an old office building. In the "Secret Annexe", the two families face boredom, hunger, anger, anxiety, and an overwhelming sadness. This diary enables us to understand the very unique qualities of the Jews; It destabilizes the Nazi's judgement about them. We don't see any sign of "Vermins", but people who are very similar to us in many ways. They have thoughts, feelings, goals, and dreams just like everyone on this planet.

I believe the appropriate grade level for reading this type of book is secondary three and older because this book contains mature subjects. To understand this book you need to have a clear understanding of the major importance of the Holocaust. There are a lot of intimate and complicated subjetcs that arouse as you read along that aren't for a young audience. I also think that for someone to feel emotions and have opinions about the book, they cannot, in any circumstance, miss any important paragraphs.

This book represents the Holocaust by demonstrating the Jews had many unique qualities, but that they were similar to us in way by giving us the opportunity to see a part of Anne Frank's life during the Holocaust. We get to know her feelings, thoughts, and dreams. We also get to see they weren't horrible people and that they were as human as we are. When we learn about the Holocaust in our history classes we don't necessarily hear about the Jews perspectives; We only get the Nazi's point of view on the Jews. This book offers us the Jews point of view which makes a lot more sense to me than the Nazi's point of view. A quote that mentions something I truly find important is, "What one christian does is his own responsibility, but what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews." Indeed, Anne Frank was only thriteen years old when she wrote this book, but she sounds like an adult at times. I can understand this due to what she and the other Jews were going through; she didn't have a chance to live her childhood like she would've deserved.

By reading this amazing diary, the students would learn that the Jews are people very similar to us and that they didn't deserve such atrocities. We know they suffered a lot, but we can't imagine at what point. No matter how much they suffered, they held on and kept hoping for things to get better. They would also learn that categorizing groups of people can be a poisonous and destructive idea. They would realize that ignoring human characteristics and commonality may lead to horrific events and that it might as well convince people to commit horrible acts.

I believe the text appropriately represents the Holocaust since the diary was written during the Holocaust by a young girl. There are accurate facts as well as opinions and feelings. She, including her family, suffered from this event. Though this diary is non-fiction (realistic), the importance of the Holocaust isn't quite shown as it shoud've been since the author was only thirteen years old. A teenager always has other things on her mind. At times, she probably didn't realize the unimaginable importance of what was really occuring in the world. She talked about boys, critizied people, made jokes and shared her intimate feelings.

In conclusion, I recommend this book to people because it's a fascinating way of getting in someone's life and getting to know that person without really being there. Diaries are always interesting texts to consider reading since there similar to monologues.