October 11 - Setting of your Novel

Are you keeping a diary? If not, did you ever write about your daily live or did you ever read someone else's diary? The book I chose is about a girl, Anne Frank.

Anne is a Jewish girl. Her life was not easy. During the World War II, she has to hide just to escape from the Nazis. She wrote down her story in her diary and this 13-year-old girl even named her diary as Kitty. As far as I read, she has fled her home in Amsterdam and moved to the "Secret Annexe", an old office building with her family. Every day they lived with fear because they were afraid that they might get caught and get killed. They spent most of the time in that Annexe and they were cut off from the outside world. This story feels so real to me. Unlike the other books, it is not based on imagination and someone's else opinion. It is a true story about lives with threat and anxiety.

I feel so sorry for Anne and her family because they have to live a life like this. But at the same time, I am glad to see that Anne is such a tough girl. And her story really inspires me a lot. Sometimes I feel sad for some really minor failures in my life; sometimes, I feel like I have got nothing. But the truth is that I am blessed. I have so many things that Anne didn't have. I have freedom. I can go out whenever I want and do whatever I like. I have got so many friends. Anne reminds me how lucky I am to have all of these.

Besides, I am really impressed by Anne. Even she was just a little girl, she had a mature mind and she thought like an adult. For example, she said, "mummy and daddy would never dream of shouting at each other. The cause was so trivial that the whole thing was a pure waste of breath." She seems to be so sophisticated. Often when I read her diary, I feel that I am even more infantile than her. Is she being too mature or it's me, who is being too childish?