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MMMkay, another thing that I'm not a big fan of...The Diary of Anne Frank. I'm sorry all you people out there that love it, but I don't see what's so great about it. And before any of you mention me not having read it, I just want to mention that I have...twice...along with the short stories that she wrote.

Why do I not think this book is all that important, because what did any of her writings have to do with true suffering? Oh boohoo I can only take a three minute long bath instead of a thirty minute bath, oh boohoo the only boy here to look at isn't cute but I think I like him anyways. How is that true suffering? Meanwhile she's living in the lap of luxury while her brethren are being burned, gasses, and brutally tortured while living naked behind walls of concrete and Nazi soldiers.

Now I completely understand the argument that it was written by a thirteen/fourteen year old girl and is an amazing piece of literature, but I've seen and heard of women and men younger than her writing equally impressive stuff without sounding like a whiny teenage brat. Not that I'm saying that she's not allowed to be a teenage brat, she was, she was a teenager, and teenagers tend to be bratty at times. But I've seen better works written by people her age that aren't annoying to read.

In terms of pure suffering, she wasn't. At least until they were captured she was not suffering, not suffering the same way the soldiers fighting for their freedom were suffering, starving, freezing to death, and dying of disease. A work written by a soldier, like let's say Eric Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, hits me so much harder, and strikes me as a better piece of literature to explain suffering that the diary of a whiny girl.

If you're looking for impressive history an literature about true suffering during the holocaust I have to say what I find impresive are the stories of the people who survive abuse in a concentration camp, that marched with their brethern falling around them for thousands of miles, and still found the strength and courage to just exist.

I am not denying that Anne Frank had a hard life, she did. But her life was many times more easy than that of say Elie Wiesel and the others that lived abused during the entirety of the holocaust.

Your opinions?
~AcidRayne