The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

By Himanshu dev Sharma on September 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

How would you feel if you are confined to your home for more than two years?

And you need to keep it top secret, otherwise, you will be tortured and killed.

You can’t go out and are totally dependent on a few well-wishers for your grocery, medicine, and other items.

How would this confinement wreck havoc on your emotional & rational well-being if you are not sure of survival?

This is and more than this had been endured by a young girl, Anne Frank during WWII. She was a Jew and barely 13 years old when her family went into hiding in a secret place ‘Annex’, a part of an old office in Amsterdam.

They were hiding from Nazis and remained there for the next 2 years until someone betrayed them. Frank’s family along with other Annex occupants were taken to different concentration camps.

Anne Frank died of Typhus just a few weeks before the British soldiers liberated the camp in April 1945. She was just 15 years old at the time of her death.

This diary is her memoir of living at the secret Annex. She has shared her feeling, frustrations, struggles, loneliness, and thoughts on vast topics, from politics to human behavior.

The book is an excruciating emotional rollercoaster ride as a reader you know what is stored for the writer at the end. When Anne, the diarist, shows the optimism of survival and having a great life later, you feel helpless and could only shed a tear.

Anne addresses her diary as ‘Kitty’ and writes as and when she feels a need to talk to her best friend ‘Kitty’. She has candidly written daily events, thoughts about other family members, their talks, discussions, her love, and affection & elaborated her feelings very honestly.

This book is a great read to understand how a growing girl continuously struggles with her thoughts, feelings, desires, and emotions. The book also highlights many misunderstandings & loss of faith that usually happen between a child and her parents.

I felt very much connected with the flow of the book and reverberated with the writer’s emotions sewn in her words and sentences. Sometimes, I gauged upon my younger self of the same age and at other times, I felt upset as a parent of a young girl.

This book is a must-read for all parents to have a better understanding of their children’s emotional development & well-being. I am sure, you would become a better parent, once you finish reading this book.

Thanks, Anne Frank for sharing everything very honestly in your diary, and many thanks to her father Mr. Otto Frank for bringing her diary as a book.

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