Lisa's Library

Title: Anne Frank. The Diary of A Young Girl 

Author: Anne Frank

no. of pages: 341

Rating: 9/10

I'm sure everyone knows the story of this book.  Anne Frank was a Jew in hiding during World War Two. She got a diary for her thirteenth birthday and starts writting from then. She goes into hiding with her mother, father, sister Margot and another family, Mr and Mrs van Daan and their son Peter. They hide over Annes fathers warehouse were he works. This is the story of how Anne feels when she is in hiding. She tells us of her dreams and fears, of her thoughts and feelings. Everything is made more real because we know that Anne wrote this herself and every word is true. She lives in constant fear of the Nazis and of them being found. They hear of their friends being taken to concentration camps and they fear it will be them next. Anne tells us what it is like to live for two whole years never stepping outside and talking to the same people. Annes diary starts in June 1942 and ends in August 1944 three days before she was captured.

I was very impressed by this book. It is a must-read. If this book had been fictional it wouldn't have the same debth as it does. It mightn't be the most intresting book in the world but it certainly is the most moving. Everything in it is Annes point of view. Anne is only twelve when she goes into hiding and is fourteen comming out. She only lives to fifteen. Out of the eight people in hiding only one survives the concentration camps. That is very sad and makes the book more meaning full.

We get to know Anne very well in this book. We are privy to her every thought over the course of two years and we get to see how he matures and devlopes. In the begining she didn't pay much thought to things but when she goes into hiding we see her pay more detail to things. Anne wasn't anything special. She was just a ordinary teenage girl like me or like you (were) but she lead an extraordinary life and we get to see the stark difference between our lives now and her life then.

The themes in this book are family, friendship, love, war and secrecy.

I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. The only reason I didn't give this book a 10/10 is because this book wouldn't have been this good if it wasn't real. As you read this book you realise that Anne Frank was going through this and thinking this. SHE wrote this. It is how SHE thought and felt. This is why I thought this book was very good.