The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank 1947

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
Holocaust WWII diary youth

Our Take

Anne Frank wrote in her diary believing she would survive and publish it. She did not survive. Her father did, and published it for her. Every optimistic entry is a form of unbearable dramatic irony. The last entry is dated three days before the SS raided the annex. She thought things were getting better.

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