Anne Frank- The Diary of a Young Girl

Why are there wars? Why people fight for ‘those’ things in life that won’t go with them after death? Though these issues dominate the surface much after the mass destruction, yet the answer remains unanswered as always. The next time there is an ego or otherwise power clash, there is a war to satiate it and the vicious circle goes on and on. However, it has much more impact on the humanity and on the person, who has lived it, as a whole.
Anne Frank-The Diary of a Young Girl is a story of the author herself, who along with her family members was hiding for two years during the Nazis occupation of the Netherlands. She along with the other members of her family had become the victim of a war, but took pleasure in whatever she experienced for the first time in life.

The book isn’t written in any of the great English styles. Translated from Dutch to English, there was no brain storming behind the whole idea of writing a novel. It was just the sheer innocence of a 13 year old girl, who finds a friend and confidante in her diary named ‘Kitty’, as she couldn’t find them in the real world.

The Diary is a two year account where the first year’s experience of author Anne unfolds on June 12, 1942. The book perfectly pours all the innocence of the child like her first crush, her first kiss and her first period- an occasion she’d been waiting anxiously for while in the annex. The book sweeps me off my feet into the little world of the teenaged girl Anne and establishes an instant moment of connectivity. However, as the book develops with the passage of time, the author develops both in wisdom and maturity beyond her age. There was an urge within her to be understood by someone and in order to combat her loneliness; she started visiting Peter, her friend in ‘Secret Annex’. I started looking into the characters, the annexure where they hid and could perfectly imagine their lives.

While going through the whole books, I felt the day to day experience of the girl was shared very honestly. It is the best laid manuscript ever written touching upon the little moments of happiness, fears, joys, anger, jealousy and tears. It was in the real sense the true outpour of the heart of an author with the simple and non fake tone.

The book not only portrays the suffering of the Jews during the Holocaust, but is a mirror of the sufferings that the common man bears during the war. On July 15, 1944, Frank wrote, ‘‘I feel the suffering of millions.” In true actuality the book speaks the story of a Deep Girl. Must read for all those with a heart.