After reading the diary again, something that Anne mentioned really stuck with me. She mentions several times in her diary how she puts her mouth against the gap in the window covers to breath in the fresh air from outside. This really does make me think about how difficult it must have been for her to be inside for two years.
I've reread the diary last year and there were two parts that kept haunting me for days after I finished it.
Her nightmares about her school friend Hanneli in a concentration camp.
The departure for the secret annex. Her fears when they walk down to the place. How she and her father immediately set out to make the place feel more like home while her mother and Margot are kind of paralysed with fear and sadness for the loss of their previous lives.
I think they showed a lot of courage and optimism, even under the rather harsh circumstances, and I greatly admire that.
The part where she talks about her feelings for girls - how she wanted to touch her best friend's breasts as a symbol of friendship and how she's moved to tears when she sees the naked body of Venus. That part is surreal.
sharemine is when the airraids come, the dream with Oma and Hanneli, and also when they go to liste to the radio one of the first few days and she is too afraid to go. i'll never forget that!!!!!!!
shareI think generally when she talks about her feelings, how there are two Annes, how people don't see beneath her mask, and how she views, or her opinions about, the world. I read her diary when I was around 13 or 14, and only picked it up again yesterday. It suddenly struck me how much I'd forgotten from those years, and how similar my thoughts were to hers. There's a certain kind of nostalgia and bond there, that'll stay with me the rest of my life, I think.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.
Still believing that people were naturally good.
This is a girl who has had everything stolen from her, is forced to hide to preserve her life, and knows that people of her religion are being targeted for extermination. Even with all of the news (and she does write about the camps in her diary, having heard about them), she still has an extremely optimistic view of humanity. It's profound and touching to read.
How she has two contradictory souls within her. It just shows how much she hid from those seven other people hiding with her...in such close quarters at that. I guess it sticks with me because sometimes I feel like I have a side no one sees and everytime I read a passage about her two selves I feel like "wow, some one feels the same as me". I'd also have to say about everytime she looks at the tree and sky through that little window. She never once mentions how small the window is, just how much comfort it brings her, and how close it brings her to God aswell.
sharethe last entry she ever made
i dont remember wat it says, coz i havent read it for a very long time
but its beautiful
and it makes me cry so much
THe last entry for me too, where she was talking about herself and who she was and how she turns her heart around and around again. It made me want to cry.
** Soldier's Angels- May no Soldier go unloved **
Green Bay Packers
her love for Peter...
and yeah the last entry...
A book that is so sad---She will never die
I know many of the passages almost by heart.
But mostly, I remember (and cherish) the great HUMOUR.
There are many hilarious episodes and observations in her diary, which is precisely why it is so great.
Yeah, I have just finished the diary once again and the last few entries make me really emotional as she sums up herself and her life in just a few pages and she really does go deep into her soul, and it is just heart breaking to read 'Anne's diary ends here.'
shareThe part that will always stick with me is the quote we had to memorize for my language arts class, that goes:
"It's difficult in times like these, ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe that, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
It just shows you how beyond her time she was; and it's always struck me as SO TRAGIC because she had so much faith in humanity, but humanity was cruel to her.
Also, whenever she talks about how she wants life to be after the war--like, who she'll marry or "I'll let my kids read her books". That just kills me. Because she seriously had SO MUCH HOPE. She completely believed she'd live. And it seemed like she would, too...
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Somewhere Anne Frank says in her diary that she believes in the good in mankind. I found that remarkable considering her life in hiding.
shareit's not too hard to understand, all things considered - she sees the best in mankind every time she sees her helpers. But also, she knows the evil - she says so in her diary.
shareThe very last line. It is simply breath-taking for me. I mean I like getting to know her and understand her side of things and being able to notice her growth. Not just as a person, but her writing as well. And the more adult things she talks about as she is exposed to it. How she gets more comfortable laying her thoughts out on paper. But that last line. It is beautiful.
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