In The New York Times the writer Anna Quindlen asked, “Would our understanding of the Holocaust be quite the same if Anne Frank had not taken a small plaid diary into hiding with her?” Respond to this question and explain your answer.
I think that there is some truth in this theory. This diary has alot of her own personal thoughts about her family issues and relationships she has to other people. It doesn't exactly relate directly to any events that took place during the holocaust. The only things I picked up that were closely holocaust related were, the fact that they went into hiding in the first place, and when they got taken away to the concentration camp. Reading the section that we were told to read, all I got from it was, "Oh how I wish my parents loved me more, I miss Peter, but that other Peter is cool too. My aunt is wierd. I have matured over the past few months, and i will start acting more grown up...etc." You could argue that these complicated thoughts were a result of the isolation Anne's family were faced with under the Nazi regime, but I think not.
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