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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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A sad, very important work

That´s a sociological and psychological study to
How Frank describes both the outside world and the complex, inner relationships between the involved humans, is one of the essential elements of the book. One other are the

Thoughts and feelings of a teenager
In a world that totally lost control over sanity and humanity. The descriptions of the Holocaust are what the work is most known for, but especially for young female readers, it´s also an interesting work about becoming a woman in conservative times. That´s the forgotten element, that

Even the normal traditions of that time seem bizarre by nowaday standards
Because it was also the beginning of the time of breaking the sexism, cultural norms, and discriminations women faced for millennia. So what Anne´s family believes, thinks, and says is an as important element as the genocide going on outside. If it would have been written by a boy, it would be more interesting for the male audience. But no matter the age, gender, or social group, descriptions of

Totalitarian atroticities
Will always be haunting when the disaster is over. Most of the famous works of that genre come from Germany or Russia because of the bloody history, but there may have been thousands of hidden, secretly written manuscripts by prosecuted people that have been burned together with the authors over the centuries. Exactly this moment this is happening all around the world in the dozens of dictatorships that torture, intern, and kill unknown numbers of dissidents each day. That´s one of the things people living in Western democracies tend to forget. That the terror isn´t over yet.

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Sarah This little girl was a firecracker. I can only imagine the books she'd have written, given the chance.


Mario the lone bookwolf Sarah wrote: "This little girl was a firecracker. I can only imagine the books she'd have written, given the chance."

It´s the same with so many millions of others who never had a chance to unleash their potential


nitya It was her birthday recently :( this book is so important, the bans are ridiculous


Sarah very true.


message 5: by Mario the lone bookwolf (last edited Jun 18, 2023 10:40AM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

Mario the lone bookwolf nitya wrote: "It was her birthday recently :( this book is so important, the bans are ridiculous"

Book banning and burning are both bonkers


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