Most people’s diaries are probably pretty boring to everyone else. (I’m pretty sure mine would be.) But not this one! During an incredibly difficult and stressful two years, Anne Frank chronicles her life cooped up with a bunch of other fugitives, hiding from the Nazis above an Amsterdam office. The diary entries are open and intimate, addressed to a fictitious friend “Kitty”. She writes mostly about herself and her interactions with her family and the others she spends time with. Her views on her family, especially her parents, seem fairly typical for a teenager, but she deals with the frustrations amazingly well given the pressure-cooker situation they are all in.
Continue reading