The Diary of Anne Frank

In the Diary of Anne Frank, a main idea is how lonely the life is of a teenager.  She does not have a confidant (that’s why here diary becomes one) and she has rather bad relationships with her mother and sister, and weak, shallow relationships with her friends.  She continuously brags about her strings of annoying boys who are "in love with her," and her "large circle of friends," but tyhen says that she does not feel that she can talk to them about anything important. She writes toward the end of the diary, “the young are more lonely than the old.” She also uses mother as an example of how she would not like to be, and her sister as a figure she just isn't so very close to.  Without there people in her life, she was set out on a long track – even before being put in hiding – to loneliness.  

The author, Anne Frank, probably subconsciously wanted us to feel outrage at her treatment and to stand and make a difference (at least back then), while at the same time she just wanted us to sympathize with her – in terms of her situation of being forced to go into jiding because of the  Holocaust, and also just her family/social situation. To make us realize the horror that was going on, she gives vivid details of her “crazy life,” how nice her life was before versus how awful it is now. You get this brief perfect time before everything starts in the beginning of the book, and then iot erupts into chaos. She vividly describes the anti-jew laws, while still maintaining that every thing is alright, that people are good despite it all. Her faith in the human race is admirable.   

I will take away from this book a much better and more comprehensive understanding of the Holocaust and the hardships Jews had to face.  My opinion on the issue obviously has not changed, but fortified and been made stronger. My understanding of World War II was greatly enhanced by this; before I understood what happened, but really not how people, much less a girl my own age, felt. I would like to know more about what happened to Anne, and how she died.