Response to an excerpt from “The Diary of a Young Girl”

The notion escapes me how a thirteen year old girl can compose such intricate works of literature. Her thought process is so very thorough that it seems to surpass the normal on that a person would go through. Anne seems to have a view of the larger picture, for example when she states, “… but because it seems to me that neither I – nor for that matter anyone else – will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.” Anne is correct when she says that no one is interested in a teenagers thinking, but I doubt she thought that her diary would be published and turned into a book that is known around the world. I wonder if people are thinking that when they produce something. Do they think, “Oh, this painting is going to be famous”? Why then would we care about what little Anne Frank has to say? What makes her work so much more worthwhile to read than other writers of the time or subject? Even so, she shows some signs of childhood, when she says, “ If I talk, everyone thinks I’m showing off, when I’m silent they think I’m ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I’m tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc.” In this sense, she shows what she truly is, a child, she feels like the world is against her and that the war has taken all the meaning from her life. I think during the time many others have felt like that. The war was a disastrous event that forced many people to suffer, in that sense this one girls’ diary held the thoughts and feelings of thousands. Some questions I have are why did this girl keep a diary of what was happening? I wonder if she meant for her thoughts/recollections to be read by so many? I guess that is also with art, do artists think about how long after they are dead that their art is still being looked at? And so this notion in my head forms about how Anne Frank thought of the future. Would she live through the war? What would happen to her and her family?