After Reading The Diary of Anne Frank Play.......

Wednesday

March 28, 2012

Dear Diary,

Today we finished reading The Diary of Anne Frank play in class. Upon finishing it, I felt a  "hunger for more" Anne's diary ended right before they had to leave as captives of the Nazis. Thinking about it now, Anne  Frank was very noble in handling her emotions when she and her family were caught . She only had five minutes, but she didn't cry, she wrote in her diary. I wished she could have  somehow continued writing while imprisoned . I wonder how she handled being at a concentration camp?

The Japanese adaption
of The Diary of Anne Frank

I think that part of the reason  why the Diary of Anne Frank  attracted so much attention was that a person of Anne's persona had written it. It's the diary of an outgoing, energetic girl forced into a life in hiding in which she grows in maturity. Her diary is a personal peek into society of that time.A time that historians  of the 1950's only had facts and statistics about.

I recall watching a  video clip, and in that video clip  the speaker said that other countries heard what was occurring in Europe, but didn't believe it.Even today, some people believe that the Holocaust was a farce that, despite the evidence, none of it happened. Anne's anecdotes proved that the Holocaust did in fact occur and that, because of it, millions of Jews fought for their lives.

Scene from The Diary of Anne
Frank play

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Mr. Frank was a father that cared so much for his children. Seeing his "Anneke" having to live a life in solitude must have made his heart break for her. Mr. Frank probably thought that Anne would be happy at the concentration camp because she'd be able to see the blue sky and walk in the sunlight. She would no longer have to hide. no longer  would she have to live in fear and hold onto who she is. She could be free.

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The last line in Anne's diary is "In spite of everything i still believe that people are good at heart." That was the last thing that Anne wrote in her diary. In those five minutes before  she'd be on her way to a concentration camp she wrote those words. This says to me that Anne had to be the most forgiving person you could ever meet. She could put Mother Teresa  to shame, that after all the Nazi's had done she could still hang onto hope in humanity.

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Love, 

Aaleah