My last book review of the year. I thought to write something that has touched and inspired me ever since young. I first read this book as part of the reading programme back in Secondary One, and I was hooked. The book itself combines history, education, pains of adolescence and eight Jewish people's survival during the holocaust known as the second world war.
Recently I acquired the complete version entitled "The Diary of Anne Frank : The Revised Critical Edition", which has all three versions of the diary (original version, Anne Frank's editions and her father Otto Frank's final edition for publications), her "Tales From The Secret Annex", as well as her only novel "Cady's Life" (which she did not manage to complete).
While re-reading and doing a more in-depth understanding of the book, I gained a better insight into her life, how she felt, the atrocities of war and the typical young adolescent girl's problems in growing up, first love and blossoming. I could relate to a certain extent, as I went through almost the same thing while growing up, but of course, I have been very lucky never to experience war, or be persecuted or had to go into hiding.
The book related to human nature in many aspects, shows the best and worst in people in situations, and the story itself is as life as ever can be. It is just like Anne Frank is living all over again, talking to people about her life and situation, just like the blogs of late.
I imagine if she is living in the modern world now, she will be blogging and communicating with everyone. But in this way, perhaps her diary will never get famous. Perhaps the book is so famous worldwide can be it was written by someone who passed away during the war, and also it was a fulfilment of her legacy by her father. If she is to have a blog rather than a diary which was published, would she have gained world wide fame?
Recently I acquired the complete version entitled "The Diary of Anne Frank : The Revised Critical Edition", which has all three versions of the diary (original version, Anne Frank's editions and her father Otto Frank's final edition for publications), her "Tales From The Secret Annex", as well as her only novel "Cady's Life" (which she did not manage to complete).
While re-reading and doing a more in-depth understanding of the book, I gained a better insight into her life, how she felt, the atrocities of war and the typical young adolescent girl's problems in growing up, first love and blossoming. I could relate to a certain extent, as I went through almost the same thing while growing up, but of course, I have been very lucky never to experience war, or be persecuted or had to go into hiding.
The book related to human nature in many aspects, shows the best and worst in people in situations, and the story itself is as life as ever can be. It is just like Anne Frank is living all over again, talking to people about her life and situation, just like the blogs of late.
I imagine if she is living in the modern world now, she will be blogging and communicating with everyone. But in this way, perhaps her diary will never get famous. Perhaps the book is so famous worldwide can be it was written by someone who passed away during the war, and also it was a fulfilment of her legacy by her father. If she is to have a blog rather than a diary which was published, would she have gained world wide fame?
1 comments:
I like your imagination of her being active in the digital world.
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