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Do young people care or even KNOW about Anne anymore?

posted 15 years ago by dramakid-1
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In English, we have to analyse a trailer of our choice for our course work. I chose this movie and the people I sit with started laughing at me! I then got told by a girl who used to be interested in Anne Frank I was camp because I liked her [Anne]. I then said "But you used to like Anne Frank" and she said it was ok because she's a girl. They're acting like Anne was fictional.

So why don't young people (I'm 14) understand the necessity of Anne's story? Or the Holocaust for that matter? It ticks me off. Only one of my friends really knows about Anne.

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[–] maddiemoiselle 15 years ago

No, I've been a fan of Anne's for about four years now and I am often asked, "Who's Anne Frank?" when I list her as a hero or a favorite author. In fact, once I was reading her diary and I had set it down and a girl (who is a few years older than I) asked me, "Who's Anne Plank?" Not Frank - Plank. It amazes me, really, how little recognition Anne is getting now.

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[–] SweetLunacy 15 years ago

I've known about Anne and been fascinated with her story since I was 13. I am now 18. Just three weeks ago, I had to correct my college professor (who is 46) when she told our class incorrect facts about the Franks. She looked at me like I was insane, and then when I told her to look it up to see who was correct, she apologised and admitted I had the correct information. Just goes to show it's not just young people.

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[–] alexbogue3889 15 years ago

Everyone I know at least know who she was.

[–] johnsonsmitty_lopli 15 years ago

I'm a guy and I'm interested in this stuff it's real stuff it's not fiction and I'm pretty young I think kids should learn this stuff in order to prevent things like this happening in the future.

[–] homercles12000 15 years ago

I was first introduced when I was 13, we read the play in English. I later read the diary on my own and was then in awe of her. I continued to study her and learned of everything after their arrest. ever since, I have never forgotten her. I was in such awe at that early age because I could see theteenage struggles she was going through and how they were very similar to mine (despite the gender difference).

I think many kids are not all that familiar these days because if they are introduced, they are introduced as I was; to the play. and teenagers, tned not to investin in extracurricular studies as I did. I think if they read the book instead of the play, they would understand who she was more and see the impression she made.

[–] leatherface_ds 15 years ago

I just finished high school and I am very familiar with the story. I read the book in school at around age 10. I enjoyed the book and i feel everyone in school should read the book or see the movie. While its shocking its necessary for children to understand that not everything in the world is good and nice.

[–] rborquez4 15 years ago

dramakid,
I went through the same thing in school.
I became interested in Anne Frank when I was in fifth grade and I got made fun of the worst in sixth. Although my teacher was impressed about my interested in that particular period in history. I was probably her first and only student who even showed an interest in history.
People would say she was my girlfriend or other similar comments.
It ticks me off too.

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[–] alexbogue3889 15 years ago

Everyone I know at least know who she was.

[–] booksandcoffee 15 years ago

I certainly hope so. She was such a strong, fascinating real-life heroine whom I developed a fascination with at an early age, a fascination that continues to this day. I'm 21, and I remember the diary being required reading in 5th grade. Things probably haven't changed all that much in terms of academic curriculums, but I do feel as if young kids have reached a level of apathy that is incomprehensible to me. Whether they care is really up in the air at this point.

[–] Thusnelda 15 years ago

I'm 21, and I remember the diary being required reading in 5th grade.

Really?

You must have been very young then - 12? 13?

Yours,

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[–] Thusnelda 15 years ago

Most kids probably know who Anne Frank is. The diary is required reading in many schools.

Really?

There was a newspaper report some time ago, claiming that in a US-American town, the parents demanded the diary to be banned in school (both in lessons as well in the library), because of its „sexually liberal“ content.

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[–] Sid-Blitzen 14 years ago

"the parents demanded the diary to be banned ...because of its "sexually liberal“ content".

And American conservatives wonder why people laugh at them.

[–] ewanfanatic88 14 years ago

Kids are so ignorant nowadays! I am also 14 and I mentioned the name Ghandi in history class and everyone laughed at me!

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