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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