The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

I read the Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. The Diary of a Young Girl is told from Anne Frank's point of view and it examines the life of Anne Frank when she was hiding from the Nazis.

The Diary of a Young Girl was similar to Night in several ways. They both transpire during the holocaust and they both survey the life of two Jewish families and the effects that the holocaust imposed on them. At first, my liking of The Diary of a Young Girl equated with my liking of Night. However, I identified a huge distinction between The Diary of a Young Girl and Night that enticed me more an more toward Frank's book. Basically, the difference was that in Night, Wiesel knew what was going to happen in his life because he wrote the book after he got out of Aushwitz. As a result, Wiesel was able to craft the book in a good way; he accentuated significant issues that contributed to the theme(s) of the book and allocated a consistently melancholy tone to the book. Anne Frank didn't know how her life would turn out and what would happen in it, so she didn't allocate a consistent tone to her writing; the tone mostly assumed whatever emotion she was feeling. Also, she didn't know what would happen in her life so she wasn't able to distinguish between significant and insignificant events in her life so she would mostly focus on and underscore insignificant events. This enlivened the book and made it better than Night for two reasons in my opinion. First, it seemed more genuine, because the writing reflected what Anne Frank was deliberating on at the time and not what she should have been deliberating on, which Wiesel did in his book. Second, the reader knew what would happen to Frank; she would be caught and send to Aushwitz where she would perish. However, Anne Frank didn't know this, so she would focus on whatever was happening in her life; and most of it was insignificant. For example, Frank blabbed many times about her fights and abhorrence for Mrs. Van Daan, the mother of the family who was hiding with her. This tormented the reader because Anne Frank was focusing on insignificant things while she should have been concentrating on bigger issues. This also generated a sense of innocence; Anne Frank was mulling over unimportant things because she didn't know what would happen to her in the future. Because of the sense of innocence that was created, the antagonizing focus of Anne Frank on unimportant things, and because it was more genuine, this book was enlivened by Anne Franks's unawareness of what would happen to her in the future.