Jan 24, 2011

Learning Log 2

Date: 1/21-23
Part: Foreword-32
Reflection:

Foreword of The Diary of a Young Girl mentioned that there are two different versions of Anne’s diary: version A and B. The former is the original diary that she wrote to herself; the latter is the edited version. The motivation why Anne started to edit her diary is also mentioned: one day in 1944, Gerrit Bolkestein announced in a radio broadcast that he would like to collect eyewitness accounts of the suffering of Dutch people. At that year, Anne was only 15, starting to edit the diary she had kept since 1942. Thus it can be seen that Anne’s patriotism is strong. One of the plots in the movie also shows that Anne is a faithful patriot. Anne was persecuted because she was a Jew. However, she said to her father, “I don’t want to be a German.” 


After starting to read the text, I have to confess that peeping is human nature. Everyone likes secrets, and a diary seems to be the best source to satisfy our needs. I am obsessed with all kind of things in Anne’s chest. The part I read today is the two months’ condition before and after they hid in the Secret Annex. Anne said in the first day: she didn’t have a friend whom she could confide in, so she called her diary Kitty, a friend she could talk about everything to.

Originally, Anne led a carefree life; all she wrote was what a junior high girl would think about: comparing with friends, talking about boys and her puppy love. However, her life had a big change when Hitler started to rule. Anne used a great amount of parallelism to talk about: Jews were required to do this and Jews were forbidden to do that. Finally, she ended these anti-Jewish laws in a short sentence: but life went on. Anne was at a sensitive age; she was at her adolescence. Yet, she just accepted her situation, and tried to see things on the bright side. Comparing with her mother and sister, her behavior was much more mature.





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