BedTime Reading

Some read, some halfway read, some not started yet.
 
What I got out of Anne Frank's Diary is not any literary value or psychological interest. It is just the diary of a 12 - 14 year old, with all the emotional see-sawing, the convictions that nobody understands her or is interested in who she really is. Falling in love, falling out with her parents and feeling inferior to her beautiful, clever, well-behaved sister. Off course there are bits that give an insight on how life must have been and how the politics were seen at the time.
 
But the value of the book for me was that it was a about a person dying in a concentration camp. All the other accounts I heard, read or seen of people who were sent to camps concentrated on the physical. The suffering experienced and observed, being sick and hungry, enduring pain, but not much about emotions and what people were thinking and feeling.


Here we have a diary of a young teenager, writing down her feelings and opinions. To know that this person, whether you liked her, whether you felt she was a selfish teen, but this person whom you get to know, would be sent to a concentration camp to die, this is what made this book one to be read.