The Diary of Anne Frank Book Report

The Diary of Anne Frank

At the beginning of the twenty-first century , Christian-Jewish relations are at a particularly significant stage . The further we move away from the era of the Holocaust , the more we are able to see that many forms of documentation and personal recollections are substituted by aesthetic forms that depict these experiences and memories . Literary and visual styles deal with cultural legacies , stories , narratives , and myths , and are defined by the common denominator to tell it ' to new generations who , in turn , have cultural perceptions and expectations that are

br different from those generations who have witnessed the Holocaust Countless novels and memoirs were published after the late 1940s most of these focused directly on the history of the persecution . One of such memories is The Diary of Anne Frank . Although The Diary of Anne Frank is a vivid portrait of the psychological development of an adolescent as revealed by her own private writings , it is most often read as a book about the Holocaust . The Diary of Anne Frank has become the most important source of knowledge in the world today concerning the Holocaust and the most widely read book of World War II . It is now seen as one of the key writings of the twentieth century , a landmark in the educational experiences of those in liberal society and more generally stands today , almost unrivalled , as a contemporary cultural icon . What did The Diary mean to contemporaries ? How was Anne Frank interpreted just a few years after her death ? Why is it that Anne Frank became such an enduring image of the Second World War to the liberal world ? Who Was Anne Frank ? These and others questions will be considered in this work

The Diary of Anne Frank is based on The Diary of a Young Girl , the best-selling , true story of a Jewish girl who eventually died in a Nazi death camp . The diary is written when

she was twelve to fourteen years old , describing her life and that of other members of her family in Amsterdam while they were hiding from the Nazis during the war . The Diary of Anne Frank is a complex text , far more so than its popularizers have realized . Anne Frank herself has often been represented as an attractive but far less interesting character than was the case . As a result there has been an absence of references to her moments of anger and despair and Anne Frank 's increasing ambivalence towards the outside world . The reader sees Anne Frank as a young , innocent , vivacious girl , full of life and blessed with an optimistic spirit that enabled her never to lose hope in humanity , even as its worst representatives were intent on hunting her down and murdering her . We understand her story as deeply sorrowful but perhaps not as ultimately tragic , for we also find in it strains of tenderness and intimacy , courage and compassion , wit and humor , sincere religious feeling and an aspiring romantic idealism , all of which undercut...