― ms.Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl is a book composed of extracts form a diary written by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. This book has 283pages, which is not that long but not too short. Anne Frank begins to keep a diary on her thirteenth birthday, June12, 1942, three weeks before she go into hiding with her mother, father, and sister and four other people in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam. With the assistance of a group of Otto Frank's trusting colleagues they remains hid for two years and one month, until their betrayal in August 1944, which results in their deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Of the group of eight, only Otto Frank survives the war. Anne dies in Bergen-Belsen shortly before its liberation in April 1945.

In many characters in this book, I personally would like to have Kitty as a friend. Well... Actually, she is not a real person but is a name of Anne Frank's diary. Through I was reading Anne's diary, I also wished to have a diary like Kitty to talk everything in my mind, concerns, and troubles, as if I am talking to my best friend. In addition, I think it is a good idea to record my life down for my descendants such as my son or daughter for them to see how their mother's life was like. Therefore, I would like to have a Kitty as my best friend.

I was so impressed to this book and to Anne Frank. Although she lived boring life and could not enjoy the normal and universal things, she still was open-minded and was always bright even under unfavorable conditions. I reflected on myself during I was reading this book. On the contrary, I can enjoy my life and get anything I want. This plot is very similar to the Japan empire period. We had to find shelter to avoid the Japanese soldiers. Hence, this book came to my heart deeply. When I asked my grandmother about the Japan empire period, she seemed so sad when she was talking to me. I am very surprise and feel unhappy that there were people who suffered same pains as my grandma in the far away nation, Germany. Why did we suffer pains under this ‘war'? This is a serious problem for us who live in a world with good possibility of the war. We should not remain the ‘war' for next generations and make the peaceful world to make no more person like Anne, the girl who died in her young due to the war.