Anne Frank- Abby A by Abigail Anderson

andersonad227 — 2024-11-13 15:59:45 UTC

“ We are even so selfish as to talk about “after the war”, brighten up at the thought of having new clothes and shoes, whereas we really ought to save every penny, to help other people, and save what is left from the wreckage after the war.” This quote really resonated with me because it shows Anne’s humility and that she knows she is extremely privileged. She also expresses the idea of helping survivors of the war (page 64)

Connection

andersonad227 — 2024-11-14 15:33:50 UTC

I connect with Anne here because she feels like she is being compared to her sister and to Peter. (Page 65)

andersonad227 — 2024-11-15 12:57:00 UTC

It is surprising to me that they let a grown man stay in Anne’s room. I know that they didn’t have much space but I would never let a stranger in the same room as my kid. (Page 48)

andersonad227 — 2024-11-15 13:00:20 UTC

In these pages Anne talks about how her family celebrated St. Nicholas in the annexe. The way Anne talks about how they have never celebrated before but that this was a good way to start makes me very sad. And makes me wonder what Anne could have done if she hadn’t been discovered. (Page 57-58)

andersonad227 — 2024-11-15 13:02:36 UTC

It surprises me that so many people can be so quiet for so long. I don’t think my family could ever go into hiding because one sneeze would get the whole family discovered. (All of the book)

andersonad227 — 2024-11-21 14:46:18 UTC

“And was nervous and irritable because of other worries and difficulties, it is certainly understandable that she snapped at me” I’m really glad that Anne is finally gaining a bit of self awareness. I thought since I began the book that she was needlessly rude to her mother while her mother is trying her best.

andersonad227 — 2024-11-21 14:49:50 UTC

“ I just didn’t want to see all this, and pitied myself very much, but that, too, is understandable. Those violent outbursts on paper could’ve been worked off by stamping my feet a couple times in a locked room, or calling mummy names behind her back” Anne is really well spoken throughout this entire page and I can see her side of the conflict with mummy very well (page 128)

andersonad227 — 2024-11-21 14:56:46 UTC

“The period when I caused Mummy to shed tears is over. I have grown wiser and Mummy’s nerves are not so much on edge. I usually keep my mouth shut if I get annoyed, and so does she, so we appear to get on much better together. I can’t really love mummy in a dependent childlike way-I just don’t have that feeling. I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.” Omg this is so hard. I know I’ve already done 2 on this page but this page really really shows how much Anne has matured in just a year. Seeing these complicated feelings put in such an articulate way is pretty rare and I feel much more connected with Anne. It’s so interesting to be able to see what someone thinks like this, and I’m so proud of Anne even though I know she’s like, my age while writing this. (Page 128)

andersonad227 — 2024-11-21 15:05:14 UTC

“Sometimes, in a flash, I saw something of her life. But a moment later I was selfishly absorbed again in my own pleasures and problems. It was horrid of me to treat her as I did , and know she looked at me, oh so helplessly, with her pale face and imploring eyes. If only I could help her! Oh, God, that I should have all I could wish for and that she should be seized by such a terrible fate. I am not more virtuous than she; she, too, wanted to do what was right, why should I be chosen to live and she probably die? What was the difference between us? Why are we so far from each other now?” Oh my goodness. I think that this shows Anne’s desperation very well. And it’s a great reminder that Anne’s story is one of the most glamorous of the holocaust.

andersonad227 — 2024-11-21 15:06:16 UTC

(Page 119)

andersonad227 — 2024-11-21 15:11:47 UTC

“ I wanted to go, too, but was not allowed to, as I had my bicycle with me. Tears of rage sprang into my eyes, and Mummy and Margot began laughing at me. I then became so furious that I stuck my tongue out at them in the street just as an old woman happened to pass by, who looked very shocked! I rode home on my bicycle, and I know I cried for a long time” she’s STILL mad about this. Girl move on you were like 9 years old. That sounds mean but I feel like she’s being overly sensitive just to make her mother sound worse. (Page 129)

andersonad227 — 2024-12-10 15:25:01 UTC

Okay so this one is just about the book as a whole. When we first started reading I had a very hard time focusing and understanding what Anne was talking about because she would describe such simple things so intricately. I think that this quality of her writing by the end of the book really actually helps the story.

andersonad227 — 2024-12-10 15:29:56 UTC

I can’t find the page number but there was a few pages where Anne just describes nature and how she longs to go outside and it almost made me cry fr. I cannot imagine being locked up in the same tiny 4 rooms for 2 whole years. I wonder what it was like when she was discovered, what was going through her head? I would assume she’d be terrified, but maybe she’d also be happy to be free. Like a weight had been lifted off of her.

andersonad227 — 2024-12-10 15:35:07 UTC

Page 280; hearing how Anne died gave me a strange feeling. I knew that she’d died from typhus. But knowing that she had only had 2 months before she would’ve been freed is so heartbreaking. I’ve read another book about the holocaust called “all but my life” and it’s an autobiography from a woman who survived many labor camps and a death march. She was found and saved by American soldiers a week after Germany had surrendered. I wish Anne had known how little time she had to make it before she would be free.

andersonad227 — 2024-12-12 14:30:35 UTC

I feel like after Anne’s sister died she lost hope. And her losing hope was the real reason she died. Page 280

andersonad227 — 2024-12-12 14:32:21 UTC

I can’t believe that she got to see Lies! What are the odds that she would still be alive by the time Anne was sent to camp. Plus the fact that they both got sent to the same camp. I hope it gave Anne a bit of closure seeing her again since she had those terrible dreams about her. Page 280

andersonad227 — 2024-12-12 14:40:19 UTC

I feel like so many things had to line up in order to get Anne’s diary. Like what are the odds that she 1. Got the diary before the war and decided to record everything 2. Had the diary be saved and not taken by the people who invaded her home. 3. Had Otto survive the war and return home. 4. Had Elli and Miep remember to save the diary. And also having Lies survive to remember Anne before she died. It makes me wonder how many Life’s were forgotten in the holocaust. So many peoples family and friends and neighbors and coworkers were straight up just murdered. How many people were just completely forgotten? How many family lineages were ended? I’m glad we have Anne’s diary. I think it reminds us of the horrors humans are able to commit.

andersonad227 — 2024-12-12 14:58:44 UTC

This book is devastating. I feel like I know Anne. It feels like we’ve been friends forever. I know all of her struggles, her issues with love and making friends, her opinions on war, religion, marriage, family. Even though she died in the 40s her writing is still very relatable today. I feel a sense of loss now. Rip Anne :(

andersonad227 — 2024-12-12 15:00:32 UTC

I kinda wish that we could’ve read the uncut version of the diary lol. Anne has such strong opinions on things so I wish that we could’ve heard everything she had to say.

andersonad227 — 2024-12-12 15:04:48 UTC

“My head is haunted by so many wishes and thoughts, accusations and reproaches. I’m really not as conceited as so many people seem to think, I know my own faults better than anyone, but the difference is that I also know that I want to improve, shall improve, and have already improved a great deal.” Anne is so wise at this age already. I wish she would’ve lived. I think she (was and) would’ve been a wonderful woman if she was given the chance to grow up.

andersonad227 — 2024-12-12 15:07:58 UTC

While Anne writes about the war and the things she’s hear on the radio I think it’s so interesting because we mostly only know about the American side of things. Like the invasion on D-day is always told by American soldiers. I thinks it’s interesting and sad to see the side of a family waiting to be saved.

andersonad227 — 2024-12-12 15:15:16 UTC

267-268. We talked about this in class but it is so crazy how complete her diary is. She leaves off on a note of hope. She hopes that someday she will be able to be her true self. Her words evoke such raw emotions in this last page. I really do feel for Anne her. I think that everyone has an inner personality that they don’t show the world. I wish it wasn’t like this, and so does Anne. “ I can’t keep that up: if I am watched to that extent, I start by getting snappy, then unhappy, and finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep trying to find a way of becoming what I would like to be, and what I could be, if….there weren’t any other people living in the world.”