Jessica

=Tales from the Secret Annex= = By Anne Frank= == = (a collection of Anne Frank's lesser known pieces)    = = =

Summary:
=== If you have never heard of Anne Frank, she was a Jewish teen during the Holocaust that lived in the Netherlands. Anne Frank’s Tales from the Secret Annex is written by and occasionally about Anne Frank and the people in her household. People in hiding. In Anne’s family there is her mother, father (Pim as Anne sometimes calls him), and older sister Margot, the other family living in the secret house is made up of Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son Dussel. There is also Peter, a renter. The book is completely consists of short stories just about daily chores, activities, quarrels and some stories out of Anne’s imagination including Cady’s Life an unfinished novel. === 

Theme:
=== Tales from the Secret Annex by Anne Frank, the author’s purpose is that life is unfair but you should try to find the best in it and be happy. I’m not really sure if that was her original intent but it’s hard to ignore her positive attitude towards life and her problems. Through her writing, she always seems to be happy even with everything going on around her. I don’t think that Anne Frank really expected that millions of people would be reading her writings, stories, and dairy. I think her purpose was to entertain her audience, whoever she intended that be. I think she was just writing for anyone that would read it. ===

My opinion:
===  I personally found it a little boring while reading several stories, but for the most part it was interesting. For the life that is going on for her she seems so normal, a lot like kids today. It is easy to tell she loves to write, for she sometimes just writes about something uninteresting but seems like it is the most important thing that has happened in a while which makes the book a little more dull. Occasionally she used intriguing figurative language. “Brring… the alarm clock, which raises its shrill voice at any hour of the day or night, weather you want it to or not. Creak… wham… Mrs. Van D. turns it off. Screak… Mr. van D. gets up puts on the water and races to the bathroom.” In any case it was more of an experience looking into the life of Anne. I strongly urge you to read the diary of Anne Frank before starting this book. ===