A GIRL WHO BECAME A WRITER AT THE AGE OF 15

Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt in 1929. She was cheerful, clever, hard-working. She was passionate about her future, being the center of the attraction. She was full of life. However, life didn’t accept her. She was the odd one for her society. She was trying to cope with discrimination, antisemitism, hatred, prejudice, and provoked people. She wasn’t allowed to attend social activities, she had to wear a Star of David as a symbol, her school was separated from the others. She was completely out of the community. Despite anything about her, her warm smiles, her eyes full of excitement, her intelligence, her dreams, the beauty of her personality, she wasn’t one of them. She was Jewish.

During the invasions of Nazis, all Jews were being sent to Labour camps. The members of the 2 families, Franks and Van Daans went into hiding with a dentist, Mr. Dessel. The hiding place, called “The Secret Annex”, wasn’t an easy place to live in. They were such ghosts by being so careful and quiet in order not to be discovered and caught by neighbors. These conditions were too hard for eight people to obey in the same place. However, this was the only chance for them to stay alive.

"The Secret Annex..."

Pictures: 1. The Front of The Annex, 2.The plan of the structure, 3. Anna Frank's room shared with Mr.Dessel, 4.The entrance of their hidden place covered with a bookcase

In the Annex, Anne spent more than 2 years of her life. She dealt with emotional situations, internal or external struggles, changing ideas and thoughts about life, desperate feelings, harsh critics about herself, risks, and dangers about hiding. She was fond of writing so whatever she tried to tell others but couldn’t manage, whatever she kept secret, whatever she couldn’t even admit to herself, anything about living in the Annex was written to Kitty, who was her fictional pen pal in her diary.

She was talented. Her words were becoming more mature, she was shaping her lifestyle, thinking about any detail about herself since thinking and writing were the only things she was able to do in the annex in order not to go mad. Her relationship with her family wasn’t so good, she was a teenager, she had her own problems, and a completely different Anne she could never share with them.

One day she heard the appeal about publishing all documents written during the war to show the whole world what those people suffered from. This was the inspiration for her. After that day, her only dream was staying alive till the end of the war and publishing her all writings especially her 13th birthday gift, her dear diary.

So many things have changed about her personality, in her mind during the hiding. Her splendid words were reflecting these changes. She criticized herself, she blamed herself, she got mad at herself, she experienced happiness only by herself. She was all alone but with Kitty.

3 days after her last entry in the diary, they were caught. First, she was deported to Auschwitz, then, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with Margot. Unfortunately, In February 1945 they both died... Conditions were too bad, their times in these camps were such tragedies. I don’t even want to explain that.

Otto was the only one who could survive from the members of the Annex. When he returned to Amsterdam, he found her daughter’s diary, first, he couldn’t read. Then, he got shocked because in this diary there was a literally different person, not her own daughter. He published Anne’s edited diary, edited after the appeal, as of version a, more mature, more careful, and more objective. Then he decided to publish the original one as version b.

The Diary of A Young Girl was translated into 70 languages, became so famous, sold all over the world, turned into some kind of a source of movies and plays, and a symbol of this mad world. Its difference from the other war documents was Anne’s incredible improved style. Her words were realistic, they belonged to her. As a fifteen-year-old girl, moreover, after her death, she did become a writer. She made her voice heard, she talked to people via this masterpiece. Every unique word from this diary reflected millions of victims of the holocaust. A fifteen-year-old girl managed to be a mirror for the meaningless of discrimination, persecution, hatred, prejudice, and other awful human things. Her beautiful soul and her pureness were shown in a miserable world via a depiction of real life. On her own way, my new friend Anne Frank’s life.

I've read her diary, it was memorable... I will never forget her existence, her splendid words, her life full of tragedies. She a friend of my internal life and a respected writer who has a beautiful place in my mind. She always wanted to be unforgettable, I know that because she told me in her diary, I know that her mind was beyond the century she lived in, or the mentality of the people who judged her. She was aware of her strength and powerful imagination. Here are some quotes from my dear friend...

"I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!"

"You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people since you're still not anybody's one and only."

"I think spring is inside me. I feel spring awakening, I feel it in my entire body and soul. I have to force myself to act normally. I'm in a state of utter confusion, don't know what to read, what to write, what to do. I only know that I'm longing for something. . . "

" 'As long as this exists,' I thought, 'this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?' "

"Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again. Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more..."

"A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!"

"Even though I'm only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who's right and who's wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas, and principles, and though it may sound odd coming from a teenager, I feel I'm more of a person than a child. I feel I'm completely independent of others."

"Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately, people shape their own characters."

"I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent, or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too."

"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."