" It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. "
-Anne Frank
Peace and Tranquility did return, if only for a brief period of time, but she wasn't there to see it. I must admit that "The Diary of Anne Frank" was a disturbing read. It is an anti-thesis of what it sets to represent. Anne's diary reverberates hope, a hope of survival and a hope to live the life she truly deserves. Both of which weren't in her fortune.
Some books require you to have the guts to read them and "The Diary of Anne Frank" is one such. It took me weeks to get out of the state of gloom I was pushed in to by reading the book.
Anne is like any other teenager. She exhibits exuberant cheerfulness and conflicting emotions coupled with an intense desire to live. Her struggle to make herself understood to the people who matter the most to her isn't any different than ours. Deep within, she is continuously on the path of discovering herself. At times, she displays such fine maturity that can completely shock you for a second; she speaks such fine wisdom that is at once both profound and simple. The fact that she isn't a figment of a thoughtful author's imagination adds to the depression. Pick up a teenagers diary and give it a read, you'd most certainly find the exact same contents. But, what it additionally offers you is the insight in to living a life of constant fear and unbelievable hope. Anne and her family along with a few other friends went in to hiding for about 2 years before getting caught. Imagine yourself being locked up in a house for a week(with all supplies enough to last you for two weeks) but with a truth that if you were to be found, you will have to face death, nothing less. She lived through these horrors and yet, she was genuinely optimistic. When she talks about returning to school in a few months, when she yearns for stepping in to the sun, when she talks of her future- her hopes and ambitions...it's hard not to let your heart go out to her. What makes it worse is the realization that those things she dreams about, would never happen.
Anne was 15 years old when she died in horrible conditions at a concentration camp.
I would think twice before suggesting you to give it a read but if you dare, I wouldn't stop you. Of course, I do not regret reading it. True, the book is an anti-thesis. It talks of hope but the reality is despair. It talks of living but ends in death. It resonates faith but meets just the opposite.
But as they say, it's your perspective that matters, not the problem. So, I would say it's an inspiring read because it reminds you of what you have and what you can set to accomplish. Anne didn't have a chance, never did, but you do.
Some books require you to have the guts to read them and "The Diary of Anne Frank" is one such. It took me weeks to get out of the state of gloom I was pushed in to by reading the book.
Anne is like any other teenager. She exhibits exuberant cheerfulness and conflicting emotions coupled with an intense desire to live. Her struggle to make herself understood to the people who matter the most to her isn't any different than ours. Deep within, she is continuously on the path of discovering herself. At times, she displays such fine maturity that can completely shock you for a second; she speaks such fine wisdom that is at once both profound and simple. The fact that she isn't a figment of a thoughtful author's imagination adds to the depression. Pick up a teenagers diary and give it a read, you'd most certainly find the exact same contents. But, what it additionally offers you is the insight in to living a life of constant fear and unbelievable hope. Anne and her family along with a few other friends went in to hiding for about 2 years before getting caught. Imagine yourself being locked up in a house for a week(with all supplies enough to last you for two weeks) but with a truth that if you were to be found, you will have to face death, nothing less. She lived through these horrors and yet, she was genuinely optimistic. When she talks about returning to school in a few months, when she yearns for stepping in to the sun, when she talks of her future- her hopes and ambitions...it's hard not to let your heart go out to her. What makes it worse is the realization that those things she dreams about, would never happen.
Anne was 15 years old when she died in horrible conditions at a concentration camp.
I would think twice before suggesting you to give it a read but if you dare, I wouldn't stop you. Of course, I do not regret reading it. True, the book is an anti-thesis. It talks of hope but the reality is despair. It talks of living but ends in death. It resonates faith but meets just the opposite.
But as they say, it's your perspective that matters, not the problem. So, I would say it's an inspiring read because it reminds you of what you have and what you can set to accomplish. Anne didn't have a chance, never did, but you do.
your articulation reflected extraordinary poignance :)
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