Thursday, December 4, 2014

The Dairy of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank is about a girl that writes about her life story while being in the Holocaust. Anne Frank wrote in her diary everyday for two years while she was hiding with her family, since she was a Jew. The diary begins with Anne writing about how it was her birthday and for her present her parents got her her diary. Write now I am reading about how Anne is finally getting used to the fact that she has to live in a secret attic hidden behind a bookshelf. At first she was very uncomfortable because of the lack of space there was in the attic. She would explain that everywhere she went she would bump into her family, because it was her, her mother and father and her older sister. She was also very upset that they had to move because one she could not bring her cat and since Anne is 12 she likes to play around and in the attic everyone had to be quiet because if they were people would her them, and the Germans would be able to find them easier. A couple months later it got worse for Anne because another family had to move in because her father said that there was room for more people. The good thing that came from the family was that there was a boy Anne's age, and she knew him because their dads were already friends. In the beginning they ignored each other because Anne felt like it was unfair of him to bring his cat and she felt like he was taking more of her privacy. But then as she started getting into more conflicts with her mom she found a hiding spot at the very top of the attic. Petter, the boy found her and Anne started talking about how she feels that no one understands her and she feels so alone. In her diary she talks about how she just wants to be a real girl/child, she wants to be free and she wants the Holocaust to end. I will keep reading the Diary of Anne Frank to find out how her story ends. If you want to know more about what happens to Anne and her family then read the Diary of Anne Frank.

In the book the Diary of Anne Frank, she is always asking herself when is the Holocaust going to end? Or sometimes she ask who will put an end to it and when will she be able to go back to how things used to be? These kind of questions make me wonder about what she thinks will happen if the Holocaust stopped. I wonder if her Diary would have ever been noticed even if the Holocaust stopped. I feel like the Holocaust helped many people realize that they shouldn't stay quiet when bad things happen. I wonder what kind of life she would have had if the Holocaust did not last as long as it did or as long as she described it to be. I think that the story will just go on and Anne Frank is going to keep telling her story about what happens while she is in the attic. There are some parts in the diary where she explains that she sees or hears some other Jews or people being captured or sent somewhere else. I wonder if she has any friends that were Jews and if she knows anything about what happened to them. I think Anne Frank is just going to keep telling her story until she gets captured because as some people already know Anne Frank's father was the only one that survived. If you want to learn more read the Diary of Anne Frank herself to find out.




Wednesday, December 3, 2014

The Holocaust

I believe that many people just stood by and watched the Holocaust take place because they were scared if they stood up and said something to try and help Jews or anyone else being affected by the holocaust, they would be the ones that would either get killed or also hurt. I think what inspired others to stand up and or even resist the Nazis was that they saw so many people and some of them being friends, being hurt or even killed when the Holocaust was happening. I think that those people who stood up just wanted to change the way things were going. I think that those people were tired of being scared and not being able to do anything. I learned that the people who stood up didn't just sometimes just killed, but some also lost their family members because of it. Many people that were upstanders didn't think much before they said something and tired to stop the Holocaust. The reason I say this is because if they did think too much about what they were going to do they might have just thought about themselves and stayed out of it. But the great part about them not thinking about themselves is by not being selfish they were able to get out their and try to stop what was going on. Of course some people did not get far on their protest because they were killed or something happened that they had to stop trying, but the ones that did get far in what they wanted to do to change the way things were helped save so many wonderful lives.