The Diary of a Young Girl
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Did anyone else read this for school?
I was assigned to read it for Literature.
Yes. This was required reading during my school years in the 1970's. During that time on television I also remember watching "The Diary of Anne Frank" directed by the great George Stevens. In 1995, I visited the house of Anne Frank in Amsterdam. One of the most profound and powerful energy experiences on my journey. The line extended down the block to get in and the silence of everyone attending with only breathing heard from each person made for a poignant moment. I purchased the book at their shop and reread during my stay. A story that must told and passed on.
I liked it, though I hated that she put personal things in it.
but it was her diary - isn't that the idea behind a diary to put personal things into it???
it would have completely changed the context of the diary if personal stuff had been edited out during it...
Yeah... I guess your right.
I get that reading about that stuff might uncomfortable to some people, but when you consider that this and stuff like Corrie Ten Boom's book are memoirs and which tend to focus on significant events that occurred during a period of time then its natural to expect that stuff like that would show up in their writing - KWIM?
Dee wrote: "I get that reading about that stuff might uncomfortable to some people, but when you consider that this and stuff like Corrie Ten Boom's book are memoirs and which tend to focus on significant even..."What does KWIM mean?
Dee wrote: "but it was her diary - isn't that the idea behind a diary to put personal things into it???"I meant the sexual personal things.
i don't know about you, but my diary had all that kind of stuff in it growing up...maybe that is the difference between male and female readers and our personal reflections on ourselves growing up what we feel is important to us
Dee wrote: "i don't know about you, but my diary had all that kind of stuff in it growing up...maybe that is the difference between male and female readers and our personal reflections on ourselves growing up ..."I don't really want to put that kind of things in mine for the reason that other people may read them. Do you think I should. Since it is where you write personal things?
Read in 8th or 9th grade, I found the book interesting, but could not ever read it again. It was another point of discussion with my mother, who lived just outside London, England during World War II.
i would have killed anyone who read my diary growing up...those things are supposed to be sacred...its up to each individual person what they do or don't write in it - only you can know what you should do - I don't think Anne knew when she was writing in it that her Diary would one day become famous, so was writing as a teenage girl...however, from what i've read - its some of those personal sexual issues which cause it to routinely be placed on the banned/challenged books list
Dee wrote: "i would have killed anyone who read my diary growing up...those things are supposed to be sacred...its up to each individual person what they do or don't write in it - only you can know what you sh..."Yeah... Guess so. You are right, what we right in our diaries or journal is our business and if we want to put sexual things in them, it is up to us to decide whether or not we what to.
I read it as a kid, and Anne's diary is what made me start keeping one. I even named it, Valerie. I even wanted my family to rename me Valerie, but anyway, I just started rereading her diary last night, and I am going to concurrently read Annexed. So, far, I'm really loving Anne's voice. She's so funny about all the boys who are in love with her! 
I read it several times in school. I haven't read it in a few years, I think I might pick it up again.
Judie wrote: "7th grade...1974... this book opened my eyes and changed my life!"This book is indeed an eye-opener for many of us out there.. It throws light on a lot of gray areas, which are best discovered when life isn't at its best.
Emilia Jane wrote: "I read this for school. Any others?" I READ this book at my school but no one else in my school;l that i know of didn't. it still was a great book.
I read this book last year, in class we watched the movie. It was a TV movie and it was two tapes. The movie was amazing and very sad. It was also very interesting because in Anne Frank's dairy you don't know if she is going to live or die or even what happens to her after she stops writing. In the movie it goes until the last concentration camp she is at. Then it skips to her dad finding out that he is the only one who lived. It was interesting to see how it all ended because you can't tell from her dairy.
Not only did I read the book in high school, I also saw the movie adaptation. This is a very moving story that should be read by anyone interested in that horrible chapter of history.
This was never required reading for school.We talked about the book but never had to read it. I read it because I've always been interested in history and the holocaust as always got my attention.
Yes I read this for school ; didnt have to but did it was interesting but at the same time boring!
Yes I has Nightmares about it for weeks!
At first I didn't want to read this book because it was about the holocaust. Then my LA teacher told me it was required and I read it in a week. It was so good, I loved it.
Ashley wrote: "who didnt read this for school?"They didnt make us read this one for school. For us, in high school, it was 1984 and Hamlet..I chose to read Diary of Anne Frank on my own.
Alex wrote: "everybody reads this like in 7th grade right?!"alex i hope not cuz omg this book was B-O-R-I-N-G!!!!!
although the play was funny i agree on tht.
Yeap. Finished it last week. Although ive already seen the play and read the book before...oh well. Good expirience to read it more than once.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha, ur kidding right??
I did back in high school. We were required to stage a play for this book
I read it just because.~J
Emilia Jane wrote: "I read this for school. Any others?"
I remember reading it in the 6th grade. My kids had to read it too. Apparently there is a debate on how true this story is..or how accurate it is, rather.
I remember reading it in the 6th grade. My kids had to read it too. Apparently there is a debate on how true this story is..or how accurate it is, rather.
Rula wrote: "i gave this book a three-star rating because sometimes i found it annoying, i found it quite disturbing, a little indecent and feministic."How old are you? Perhaps your own diary would read the same to others. To read the thoughts of a young girl living through one of the worst events in history is history itself. It's too bad you didn't appreciate that.
I read this many moons ago in my 8th grade English class. I remember walking into class on the first day of beginning the book and my teacher had posted black & white photos all along the front of the class depicting the effects of the Holocaust on it's victims. Our whole class new that this book was not just about a diary of a girl our age. Powerful introduction to this book. I will never forget it.
I did not read this for school. Was just interested... read it as a young girl (I think that's what appealed to me--seeing the world through the eyes of a young girl). I need to read it again, for there is so much more that I would recognize now.
last year we were given it as a supplementary i loved it
Emilia Jane wrote: "I read this for school. Any others?"Yes, I did.
Lori wrote: "I read it way back in the 1970s in school and read it again a couple times more over my life."I read it about then too and found it very powerful and tender at the same time. I have also re-read it several times and visited her house in Amsterdam which considering had few artefacts in it was still very moving.
I read it in Middle school.
Scarlett wrote: "I read it in Middle school."No, I did not.
Oh...My...Gosh.
Peeter I loooooove peeter oh and there are bombings but peter is so much more important. I'm sorr but I was about to die!
Peeter I loooooove peeter oh and there are bombings but peter is so much more important. I'm sorr but I was about to die!
I never read it in school, but I saw the old black and white version of the play when I was a small child. It was powerful. Read this, The Life and Times of Michael K, and The Bell Jar back-to-back one summer. Took me months to get over the depression that resulted.
I taught Anne Frank to a middle school class in a very small town in Georgia as a way to get them to discuss prejudice and racism. They identified with Anne in a way they never could have with an African American character. But they were, in the end, able to see some similarities to their own views on race and religion.
I read this at 15 or 16, not for school. Totally identified with Anna, especially her sense of guilt re her mother, her attempt to work things out with her family, her sense of new interest in a boy (Peter)--and then of course as a Jewish person. Later saw the play, then a film, then a television film of the work, plus many many articles on it. It's beyond classic by now. And of course even Phillip Roth, in his The Ghost Writer, was able to write something valuable in connection with this wondrous work.
I read this on my own in sixth grade, and I thought it was really sad and idententified personally with Anne. After I read it, I remember sitting up that night, raging to God about the injustice of her death. Then in eighth grade I was assigned to read it again, and, while I discovered that Anne's voice was kind of spoiled and whiny (and really, how many of us wouldn't be whiny if our worlds were turned upside down?), I still identified it. After finishing the book, my teacher took our class and all of her other students (she teaches 8-12 grades) who had never been to the holocaust museum in Detroit, and it became personal on a whole new level. The experience affected me a lot, and I'm glad that I read it again.
Yes I read this for school, I think it was grade 8 but at that time I didnt really like it that much but now looking back it was a great read.
Yes, I read this book in 9th grade in Mrs. Minor's English class.I loved it! I read it again while in college - I was a History major! :)
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I am with Ashley..who didn't??? though I will say i am grateful for this one. Most of the books I was forced to read (besides Silas Marner) was nothing to talk about..this was. Love it. :)