My response to the diary of a young girl by anne frank
After reading Anne Frank I am met with many impressions about her. She was a misunderstood girl, and knew so much more than an average 13 yr old girl after the whole entire annex experience. I feel that she went through so much and at almost every turn she met problems. People putting her down, people comparing her to Margot, and people treating her as a child even though she was as mature as any of the adults there. I would have rather learned about Anne than not, it shows a real story, though boring at times, about a misunderstood girl in a bad situation. I do think at times though she thought she was the smartest person in the Secret Annexe, but alas, many times she was right. Her diary was very insightful into her many thoughts and feelings, and it showed that she had two sides to herself, one a very outspoken, wild Anne, and the other, a quiet, sensitive, emotional Anne. In the end, she was a very outspoken, misunderstood girl, but if you knew her well enough, you would know she also has a sensitive side.
One of the biggest connections I made with the topic was one of the main themes in this novel, and one that Anne faced constantly in the novel, identity, and finding it. Really, being a teenager is almost synonymous with finding your identity. You don't know what you want to do and what you want to be and you are trying to find that and grasp on to something. You don't know if you want to be a rebellious rocker or a boring businessman, and I think that she really faced this. Now, it was hard for her to even think of being something, as she was confined to their hiding space, but she was changing interests consistently, and towards the end of the book, sticking with her interests and who she was, showing that she had matured over the course of the book. She was constantly juggling with her two drastically different sides of herself, as I mentioned in the last paragraph. She never knew which one to stick with, but she knew which one was easier, but the easier side was not the side she liked. She wanted to read certain books and find out about certain things and be a certain person but her parents and the Van Daans would put down her true self, and she had to make the decision to strike back or keep quiet. I face lots of the similar issues, such as the music I like and my parents not particularly liking it, even I know that is what I like. They also don't necessarily like the idea of me not really getting a real job when I grow up, just being in a band and being in general awesome, even though That is what I want to be, and I can't decide if they are right and that is unrealistic, or if I should stick with it.. So all in all, I think that I make a great connection to the topic of identity in this novel.
I have learned a good bit after reading this novel, and I am going to share with you some of my opinions and some of the things I learned. One thing that holds true with this album even today is that intolerance exists,even today. May it be religion, race, or anything else, it still exists. There are many lessons to be learned in this book, such as sometimes people are more mature than they look, and sometimes people may be more mature than they look and act on the inside, especially when they are faced with uncommon circumstances. Though this book had very good lessons in it and was very interesting, I do not think that it changed the way that I think. I really have never teased someone about their appearance or beliefs,but this book will hopefully teach some people that valuable lesson. This has been an interesting but at times boring book, but I am glad that I stuck with it in the end.
One of the biggest connections I made with the topic was one of the main themes in this novel, and one that Anne faced constantly in the novel, identity, and finding it. Really, being a teenager is almost synonymous with finding your identity. You don't know what you want to do and what you want to be and you are trying to find that and grasp on to something. You don't know if you want to be a rebellious rocker or a boring businessman, and I think that she really faced this. Now, it was hard for her to even think of being something, as she was confined to their hiding space, but she was changing interests consistently, and towards the end of the book, sticking with her interests and who she was, showing that she had matured over the course of the book. She was constantly juggling with her two drastically different sides of herself, as I mentioned in the last paragraph. She never knew which one to stick with, but she knew which one was easier, but the easier side was not the side she liked. She wanted to read certain books and find out about certain things and be a certain person but her parents and the Van Daans would put down her true self, and she had to make the decision to strike back or keep quiet. I face lots of the similar issues, such as the music I like and my parents not particularly liking it, even I know that is what I like. They also don't necessarily like the idea of me not really getting a real job when I grow up, just being in a band and being in general awesome, even though That is what I want to be, and I can't decide if they are right and that is unrealistic, or if I should stick with it.. So all in all, I think that I make a great connection to the topic of identity in this novel.
I have learned a good bit after reading this novel, and I am going to share with you some of my opinions and some of the things I learned. One thing that holds true with this album even today is that intolerance exists,even today. May it be religion, race, or anything else, it still exists. There are many lessons to be learned in this book, such as sometimes people are more mature than they look, and sometimes people may be more mature than they look and act on the inside, especially when they are faced with uncommon circumstances. Though this book had very good lessons in it and was very interesting, I do not think that it changed the way that I think. I really have never teased someone about their appearance or beliefs,but this book will hopefully teach some people that valuable lesson. This has been an interesting but at times boring book, but I am glad that I stuck with it in the end.