The Dairy of Anne Frank

I finished reading world’s most famous diary of all time “The dairy of Anne Frank”. I should have read it a long back may be atleast a couple of years back.

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Anne’s diary reminds us, how lucky we are to live in a world without war, to be free and to enjoy life. Her dairy tells us about the days she and her family went hiding.

Anne starts her dairy telling us how she gets the dairy. She calls her dairy as kitty. She see a friend, to whom she can confide, in kitty.
Anne and her family goes hiding because they were unfortunate Jews who Hitler believed have no rights to be happy or even to live. Their hiding place was annexe of Anne’s daddy office. They were joined by Van Dan and family. Anne later on develops a romantic relation with Peter, Van dan’s son.
She describes Van Dan’s wife as obnoxious and complaining.
They were later joined by a dentist Dussel. Anne dislikes him too.
They were helped by few office staffs, Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, and Bep Voskuijl, and they were the only people who knew about Anne’s hiding place.
Anne describes her relation with other members of annexe including her troubled relation with her mother. She also gives vivid description of the daily routine there and about the food they ate during that time.

Anne was a outspoken girl with strong determination and desires. Her elder sister was soft spoken and attached their mother Edith. Anne was more attached to their father Otto.
Anne had a opinion on everything, this included, politics, love, relation. social life etc. And she was frank enough to speak it out, which created friction in relations.
She was a typical teenager with her own thoughts and craved for independence.
And most importantly, she choose her words really well to express her inner self.
Her life at annexe comes to end after 2 years when they were taken to concentration camp by German Police. Anne and her sister dies there. The lone survivor from the annexe is Anne’s father Otto Frank, who later on publish Anne’s dairy.

Anne’s dairy is not just a dairy but a sad monument of man’s barbarism and brutality.

May there be peace in this world!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

Today I read “The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas” by John Boyne. A story which will take you back to second world war and show you a relation between 2 nine year old boys.

The story revolves around Bruno and Shmuel.Bruno, who was a son of German military commandant and Shmuel was Jew boy in a concentration camp. The story starts when Bruno’s father is transferred to out-with camp and they had to leave their home at Berlin. And they were not to return to home until foreseeable future. This makes Bruno sad but he knows that his father is an important person and Fury has big things in mind for his father.

Bruno was sad to leave his friends and school. He loved Berlin, his home, his friends, busy saturdays down in his street. And more importantly he hated  the new place and new home.

The story moves on when Bruno starts his exploration to fence which he can see from his bedroom window. He finds a boy on the other side of fence. In writer’s words, first there was a dot, then in turned to speck and then to a person. Infact a boy.That was Shmuel.

People on the other side of the fence wears stripped pyjamas, it was a kind of uniform in the camp. Bruno and his elder sister Gretel, whom he calls hopeless case, discussed about the people on the otherside of the fence but comes to a conclusion that is a country side.

Bruno and Shmuel spends afternoons together discussing about their life, family, grandparents, how Poland and Berlin is. Shmuel came from Poland.

One year passes and Bruno’s mother doesn’t like it much in out-with camp. Her only friend Lieutenant Kotler got transferred somewhere else. Bruno was happy about it because he never liked him. Like any other boy he hated being called as “little man” and also never liked  being teased. And Kotler always did it.

Shmuel tells Bruno that his papa is missing since day before. Bruno decides to go to other side of fence to find him. Shmuel gets him a pair of striped pyjamas for Bruno. They go off to search Shmuel’s papa. Bruno does not like that place. He finds that there are only 2 kinds of people there. Happy, laughing soldiers and sad and crying people.

Bruno wants to go out from the camp as soon as possible. It was raining heavily.

Bruno and Shmuel were caught in a march. Shmuel informs Bruno that people who are in march never returns. Bruno tells him that he will tell the soldiers that he is son of the Commandant and they will escape from there. But the march reaches a room, a warm place, a air tight container. Bruno thinks that they will go out once the rain ceases. He tells Shmuel that his best friend is Shmuel. And holds his hands. He feels he should hold his hand like that.

Bruno’s mother decides not to move to Berlin until Bruno is found. Gretel misses Bruno very much.

They finally move to Berlin hoping that Bruno will reach there. Bruno’s father stays there to search for his son. After one year he finds the gap in the fence through which a boy can pass.

The story ends when Bruno’s father  is taken by some soldiers to somewhere.

A touching story with a sad ending. The story will leave your eyes wet…