2020 EDIT: I am broken, destroyed.
Maybe it was a mistake to read this during lockdown. I am crying, shaking, and feeling hopeless. But there will never, ever be a bad time for absolutely everyone to read the diary of such a brave, insightful, imaginative, emotional, depressed, mature beyond her years, and lovely and human teenage girl, who was taken far too soon before her time.
Upon reliving this tragedy and trauma, from way back in my schooldays, I realize just how depressed Anne Frank was (who wouldn't be in her situation?), and the longer she lived in the secret annexe, the more she tried to find happiness and light in everything and everyone. Happiness that was not to be taken for granted. Anne wished to find optimism, companionship, and hope in despair. Because what else can you do in her shoes to stay alive, sane and not desperate?
She really was just like any other teenager - anyone can relate to her. Therein lies most of the horrifying tragedy in hindsight.
Anne, who always tried to improve her character, even when no one else could understand her except herself and her diary, wanted to believe in the good in all people. So do I. I want to keep believing in hope and that things can and will get better for everyone. But it's definitely not easy; we should have learned enough from World War II - from Hitler and the Nazis - including the reality that, as much as we may not want to believe in evil and hate, desperately so, some people are just monsters in human skin. Anyone who deliberately causes the death of children, directly or indirectly, without remorse...it is truly incomprehensible. But it happens; it has happened. Too many times.
Indifference and forgetting are just as fatal. Please let us never harden ourselves and lose our way as human beings. Remember peace, compassion, kindness, empathy, equality, and love.
I will always remember you, Anne. Let us pray you and your story will never be forgotten about.
Final Score: 5/5
Original Review:
The diary entries of a brave and intelligent young girl, full of ambition and insight. That her life was taken so soon and so brutally is not just a tragedy, it's a sign of human evil that should never have happened, and which should never happen again.
Anne Frank, you broke my heart, and for that I pray for you in Heaven where you belong.
Final Score: 5/5
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