Diary of a young girl

I just finished reading this book and I so much wanted to write about this book even before I completed it. I started reading this book on 18th November (a Tuesday) and finished this book on 25th November (a Tuesday)!! Anne Frank, my travel companion in the bus ride to work and she’s one of the reasons why I did not read this book over the weekend or any other time but just only in the bus. We will get to the book shortly but I wanted to mention couple of things before I start the review of the book. When I was reading Anne Frank, one day I kept the book outside my bag at work so that I can keep my mobile on the book and I did not want any one to take the book from me and so I wrote my name on the first page of the book like any other book. Today I realized that, it doesn’t matter if I write my name or even a short story on the first page or any other page, the book will remain Anne’s diary as the book can never be mine. Funny thing is I got this book an year before and I thought it will be boring to read and put it away! I started reading this book just because I wanted to read this before I read Mein Kamph and I so much wanted to read the latter! I am glad I read this book. Many a times, when I was reading this book, I was overcome with a strong feeling and I used to hug the book and simply stare!! Why is this book special?

Do we have lot of problems in our life?

Do we think that life is unjust?

Do you appreciate the nature around us?

Do you loathe going out sometimes and just stay at home?


Well, Anne here was stuck in her secret annexe with her family for 2 whole years. Well, in Big boss’s house (or Big brother’s house), a person stays for 2 months and that too comfortably!! How would it have been to live in hiding fearing the capture and eventual loss of life! How would it have been to forego the basic necessities of life (food, toilet etc) ? How would it have been to live amidst the sound of bomb explosion, the sound of gunfire, well as a matter of fact, any sound!! Love for life and hope are the only two things that made them (8 of them in secret annexe) live their life as if is normal!

When a person is forced into a helpless situation, the pessimism goes away and it replaces with the urge to fight for life!! How would it have been to see the same faces around you for two whole years and nothing else and that’s when a person’s true personality will be revealed.

Anne, an young girl and on the verge of becoming an young woman who wanted to be treated as an adult, wrote this diary about the life that she had in the secret annexe and sometimes, simply about what she thinks about the family members and about herself. Our Anne is philosophical and her simple philosophy touched my heart and she was born on June 12th! She’s a fellow Gemini!! All her dreams, all her longings were unfulfilled thanks to Hitler! I really want to know Hitler’s side of story. What could have induced him to do such a cruelty!!! My next book to read is Mein Kamph and let’s see Hitler what reason you give for this genocide!!

Well I really cannot call this a book as this is Anne’s life. If only she had made it through…………