The Diary of a Young Girl

By: Anne Frank

Reviewed by: Tiffany Pate

This coming of age memoir The Diary of a young girl Is a girls Diary. It is based on a young thirteen year-old Jewish girl who is living in the 1940’s when the Nazis were occupying Holland, so she is living in an old office as a hide-out.

Anne the young girl and her mom, dad, and big sister had to leave their home town (Amsterdam) and go into hiding, for a while until they had to move again, this time they go to an old office building as shelter, where Anne got her first diary, who she named “kitty”, she became so fond with it, she would put her deepest secrets in it, that no one could see, she never gave in to anyone, no one could see it, even if they tried.

Anne and her big sister Margot stayed with another Jewish family in hiding, Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan, along with their son Peter who is seventeen years old. At first Anne and Peter didn’t quite get along, then… Some feelings were grown. Peter and Anne become very close, and spent much time with each other, Anne knew the rules, no kissing a boy until she were to get married.

In this Novel Anne is turning into a young woman, she even gets her period which she talks about in her diary. At this moment Anne really likes Peter, and Peter really like Anne, they go secretly to the attic every once and a while, and talk, Anne would rest her head on his shoulder, and his head on hers… They got very close. Soon enough Anne couldn’t take it, all this time with the guy she really liked, she didn’t quite understand what was so horrible about kissing a guy before marriage, so she followed her heart, and leaned into the kiss, and it was a kiss she could never forget, her heart began to beat super fast, and her checks turned red, but she was scared, what if her parents found out, what would they do to her?

The Diary Of a Young Girl is an epistolary memoir, as a diary each date it has an entry of important things going on in her life, doubts, concerns, she even talks about going through puberty, and how it is affecting her.

I have noticed that Anne has come to know many things about herself, including how Anne is impatient because she knows she is suppose to wait to kiss for marriage, but she cant wait, she always has to rush into things.

I personally thought this book was very well written, and it is very relatable to teenage girls, but I do recommend buying the second version (the clean version) of the book if you are less than thirteen years old, because the real version has very descriptive words that should not be heard by a very young ear.

Lines I Loved:

“Mother nature makes me humble and prepared to face every blow courageously.”

“I can perfectly well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound.”