Anne Frank

Anne Frank, the lady who inspires me the most.

Probably one of the best autobiographies that we could read is of Anne Frank's dairy. Her dairy is a very painful documentation of truth of Jewish people who were ill treated and later killed by the Nazi Germany and its allies under the rule of Adolf Hitler. Not only this, her documentation are so lively that after even so many years one can hear in it the voice of over six million people effected by the Holocaust.

Anne frank was just a girl of 13 when she moved into the 'secret annex', the hiding place behind the company's premises, with her family. In person Anne Frank was very different from that of the Anne Frank who wrote the diary. Most of us knew Anne Frank from the view point of a writer. This is because she knew that if she express her feeling no one will believe her because she was just thirteen. So she put down all her thoughts, emotions and personal interpretations in her dairy, which she named as 'Kitty'. Personifying the diary helped her avoid the pain of writing in a vacuum.

On the other hand, Anne Frank's relation with her mother was strained. But she was deeply attached to her father Otto Frank. Anne often felt that her mother loved her sister Margot more than her. As a result Anne adored her father to whom she was emotionally the closest. Anne spent a lot of time in writing in those two years when she and her family was hiding. Her practice made her the master in characterization and as a result she was able to portrait the people round her with great psychological realism. Her style of writing was precise, confident and tensed. But the most important thing in her writing was her honesty, which makes her dairy a valid historical document. The reflection of her character can be easily measured from her writing, which occasionally becomes shrewd and cruel, which can be considered as a part of her swinging mood of adolescence.

But what ever she wrote she wrote with a pure spirit and offered us a rich and rewarding experience in reading. On the contrary we must not forget that she wrote under the threat of death and hence her writing has immortalized her as she once said, "I want to go on living even after my death."

I personally believe that as a writer and humanist Anne Frank was the spokesperson of her time while at the same time speaking to the future generations about the folly of indifference. Her dairy is a social, historical and literary document that we must cherish for ever.

Written By Sourav Dutta