The Diary of Anne Frank
In “The Diary of Anne Frank”, a troubled and confined young girl spills her heart out to her diary. A story of, courage, fear, love, and hate unfolds on her papers. After reading her diary, I can relate to her feelings of helplessness and longing to be free again. I think, while reading of her lifetime, I have made a connection to her free spiritedness, individuality, and even her mood swings. She could have been a past version of myself. It was difficult to read of the death of someone I connected with so well, I would have been just fine without reading of her death.
I especially connected with Anne finding her identity, wanting her parents to treat her as an equal, and her maturing faster than the average girl. I think her parents simply wanted to protect their daughter from her own decisions, so much so that they missed when she really was ready to handle her own life. Her parents did not realize that she was matured and structured enough to decide on her own. If they had allowed some decision-making freedoms, I think Anne would not have wanted to part from them so quickly. This is probably very applicable to many 13-14 year olds today.
Also, I have learned many lessons through reading “The Diary of Anne Frank”. The most valuable being: there is still prejudice and intolerance everywhere. In our schools, students separate and judge their peers based on what they look like, what they believe, and even how smart they are. Many times, students are very intolerant of others; whether they have a valid reason to be, or not. I understand the suffering that intolerance may cause another.
I especially connected with Anne finding her identity, wanting her parents to treat her as an equal, and her maturing faster than the average girl. I think her parents simply wanted to protect their daughter from her own decisions, so much so that they missed when she really was ready to handle her own life. Her parents did not realize that she was matured and structured enough to decide on her own. If they had allowed some decision-making freedoms, I think Anne would not have wanted to part from them so quickly. This is probably very applicable to many 13-14 year olds today.
Also, I have learned many lessons through reading “The Diary of Anne Frank”. The most valuable being: there is still prejudice and intolerance everywhere. In our schools, students separate and judge their peers based on what they look like, what they believe, and even how smart they are. Many times, students are very intolerant of others; whether they have a valid reason to be, or not. I understand the suffering that intolerance may cause another.
Three Poems for Her Life
Escape to the Annexe
Changes are happening faster than light.
The war we’re escaping’s a terrible fright.
Our “Secret Annexe”,
And though it’s the best,
My emotions are reaching a heart-racing height.
Nazi Discovery
We’d hid so well for almost two years,
We no longer had to shed any tears.
But then they arrived,
To let no one survive.
And now my whole life is crumbling in fears.
The Struggle
We suffer together in this one big camp,
Oh what I would do to just light a lamp.
We shake in our hunger,
And suffer much longer.
I want to survive, but it just seems I can’t.