Anne Frank Synthesis

In an excerpt from Anne Frank: the Book, the Life, the Afterlife Francine Prose argues that Anne Frank’s the Diary of a Young Girl is not only popular because of Anne Frank’s tragic story but also because Anne Frank was great writer. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who lived during WWII in nazi occupied Germany. When Anne was thirteen her family went into hiding from the nazis to a secret annex, they stayed there for two years. In 1944 Anne and her family were caught by the nazis, split up, and taken to concentration camps. Francine Prose is a novelist and nonfiction writer who wrote a literary criticism about Anne Frank’s diary. Anne Frank’s the Diary of a Young Girl should be remembered and judged by both Anne Frank’s life story

Prose presents her views on Anne Frank’s diary as a professional writer and reflects back on her views on the book when she was a teenager. Her perspective on the book hasn’t changed she always thought that the sophisticated writing created an amazing story, but only as an adult did she understand the full extent of her literary skills. This shows that being mesmerized by the writing of the book as a teenager still remained even as an adult who has professional knowledge of literature. In addition to using two views of the novel to prove her point Francine Prose uses a flashback to show how she felt reading the book as a teenager. Each time Prose read the book she states, “I lost track of my surroundings and felt as if I were entering the Amsterdam attic… I was enthralled by Anne’s vivid descriptions…”(369). The use of a flashback in this literary criticism is to show that anne’s writing provoked emotion and made readers fully sink into the story. The different viewpoints and flashback help Francine Prose prove that Anne Frank’s the Diary of a Young Girl is so popular and renowned because Anne Frank has vast writing