If you have read past posts you know I read "The Diary of Anne Frank"in Language Arts. In this book Anne Frank and her family as well as another family, are hiding in Amsterdam for two years before her father's coworker informs the Gestapo (German Police), on their whereabouts. The book ends with her last diary entry on August 1st, 1944 the last words in that entry were " ... and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world." (The Diary of Anne Frank, diary entry of August 1, 1944).
"So what?" you could be asking, "What's so important about this book... why is it so famous?". The book, as you may know is the actual diary of a young girl's time in hiding. Towards the end of her life, towards the end of the diary, she gets scared that someone tipped off the Gestapo of her location, scared that she is going to die in a concentration camp at the age of fifteen. This book shows life in hiding during the Holocaust, from the point of view of a teenage girl. We should value this book today, to remember what happened during the Holocaust. So we can remember what people went through to survive even if it is hard to accept the truth. The most valuable takeaway I learned from reading this book, is that you can still be happy if you are in a bad situation. Throughout her diary entries, she is positive even in misery. This book is one of the most read books in the world, people want to know what life in hiding was like, and what it was like as a Jew in the Holocaust.
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