The Diary of Anne Frank is the journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens. This book describes both the joys and torments of daily life. As well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding. With her family during nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
During her confinement, Frank continued her education under her fathers guidance. And on her own initiative wrote the equivalent of two books: in addition to her diary. She also wrote a number of fables, short stories, reminiscences, essays, and an unfinished novel. Life in the annex, a common concern in her diary entries, was strained by quarrels and tensions arising from the anxiety inherent in the situation, the frustrations of a monotonous, restrictive life, and personality clashes. The eight annex inhabitants shared cramped, drab quarters and had to remain stiflingly quiet during the day, at times refraining from using water faucets and toilet facilities to avoid being heard by other people in the building.
Their very survival depended on remaining undiscovered. Through the generosity of four benefactors risked their own lives, the annex inhabitants were provided with food and supplies, as well as companionship and news from the outside world. When on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), news came that the tide of war had turned in favor of the Allies, hope increased for the annex group. Then suddenly, on August 4, 1944, their hiding place was raided, and they became prisoners of the Nazis. All were sent first on a passenger train to Westerbork, and then a cattle car among the last human shipment to Auschwitz as a leader and as someone who remained sensitive and caring when most prisoners protected themselves from feeling anything. In March 1945, two months before the German surrender, Anne Frank died of typhoid fever in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Otto Frank (Annes father) was the only survivor out of all eight inhabitants.
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Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic — a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
Included in this Definitive Edition are diary entries previously omitted from the original, passages which reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted over her emerging sexuality, often found herself in disagreement with the adults around her, and veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult living under extraordinary conditions and unbearable strain. Anne emerges more triumphantly and heart-breaking human, more vulnerable, and more vital than ever.
Through out this experience Anne Frank seemed to have a positive attitude most of the time and had the faith that everything was going to work out for the better in the end. She believed that people were truly good at heart and hoped and dreamed to be a famous writer one day. Even though Anne died and was not able to publish any of her books, the ones found still live and go on to show teenagers today that you dont always have to be an adult to do something good in your live. In my opinion her dream came true, even if she didnt live to see it.
